The New York herald., 1875-12-02

supposed from the description given to De Mrs Walker
OF Troy.
An unknown Frenchman, pedier OF silks and jewel
ry Is also lost
Tho body Of the elderly lady was previously stated
recovered
ANOTHER sTATEMEsT.
When Captain Teson finished his statement, Peter
smith. 4 telegraph messenger at Hyde Park, made the
following statement.
~ saw Peter Flynn, OF Barrytown, one Of the deck
hands Of the Walter Brett, this morning. He said he
heard the whistle blowing and bell ringing and thought
il was the steamer Thomas Cornelln
4 PAssRNGRR's STORY.
One Of the passengers saved is Miss Lena W. Bron-
son, OF Tenany, N. J. visited her at farm house
where she was lying in bed and in the presence OF the
household she made the following statement
'Myself and mother, Mrs. haywood, occupied state
room No. on the Sunnyside. We were awakened
by knocks on door and told TO hurry out We
were only hall dressed and all the
passengers hurrying up stairs and greatly ex
cited They told there not much
danger we near the shore They
told we had time to dress and we went back
and dressed and when out again they told
to hurry the upper deck Captain Teson and another
helped and told to 60 into the pilot house
We were there short when they told to get into
next and she seated herself by my side. Mamma
shouted to the TO 20 on but they waited for
and when the last one got In tho boat filed with water
and sunk When went into the water ! made my
feet and arms go as best could. didn't see mamma
anerward. They told me she shrieked, but didn't
hear her My father lives in New Jersey"
Miss Bronson is about sixteen years of age and Mrs.
Haywood was her step-mother. Miss Bronson was
cued by two other passengers, young men, named
James Sanford and II. W. Dauchy OF New York. Both
in the small boat when It upset. The young girl
caught hold Of Sanfords and he managed swim
along with her to the netting the railing of the hur-
ricane deck OF the steamer and hauled her board
All three were finally rescued by the brave Walter
Dumont
The clerk of the says there we're only eight pas
sengers board and that hts passenger list lost
sUNFysIDE
was built IN Brooklyn in 1885, for North River work,
and cost S125 ooo She aerward sold to the Git
izens' Steamboat Company, of Troy for $4,000. She
had light freight-hfty barrels of pork, twenty
tons of paper, 200 kegs OF spikes, of horses
and carriage. He could learn nothing about the in
surance The work OF graphing for the bodies lost
from the small boat will commence Immediately. Mr..
Eltinge Justice of the Peace OF Highland has taken
charge of the unknown elderly lady's body and has
already commenced an inquest He will be aided by
the District Attorney Of Ulster county All board
the steamer speak in the highest praise of the
GOODNESS and courage Of Captain Teson his efforts
life His pilots and engineers and the mate stood
by him manfully in all the trying moments All OF
them manned the rope ferry and worked calamity.
The rescued people also loud in their praises OF
the kindness and hospitality shown them by the
farmers in the vicinity OF the disaster They threw
open tneir doors to them, gave them
AND sHELTRR
and set apart their private for the
daton OF the sufferers The Sunnyside lies within
200 feet Of tho shore of West Park forty feet
water Nothing svisble but portions OF her hurricane
deck pilot house and smokestacks One smokestack
has been torn away by the ice and the drifting ice is
fast tearing the upper works Of the vessel TO pieces
Captain Tpsen and engineers and pilots still
wreck In comfortable armhouses Mr.. Joseph Cornell
Superintendent Of the Citizens Company, arrived on
the at about two P. NJ and 1t Is probable that
attempt will be made to tow the wreck to New York.
Frank Walker, ofTroy, has arrived at West Park be-
lievng the;unknown elderly lady is his mother.
score of walters and and potatoe spectators who
were on board left for New York at Some think
that two bodies win De found on the steamer
when she is raised but Captain Teson is almost positive
that the eleven referred to include all that were
drowned.