New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-20

crew and the excellent discipline which they maintained
He offered his services to the captain. who very conr
teousy declined them The sea at the time the NesSei
struck, he said, running HIGH ana hcaVy SHOW
storm, accompanied by nOrth-nOrtheast gaze pre-
vented the officers from seeing any distance rom inc
ship He also praised the efficiency OF the crews OF inc
fcsaving stations who discovered the vessel shoe ~
minutes after she struck.
The company's agent in this city, George W. Cotton
said that he had received further news than what
appeared in TIE TRIBUNE of yesterday lie had conn.,
d, nee that the vessel would be successfully hoaleu "
the Coast Wrecking Company. His dispatches from he
wreck were very encouraging The Risiand' nc Sai'
formerly belonged to International Navigation Com
pauy limited. Of Liverpool and was then known rs inc
Kenilworh Since the last trip of the vessel she had
been purchased bv the Red Star lne ana was worth
about 100000 She fully insured in Europe
The steerage passengers looked none the worse Tor
their mshap but seemed anxious to leave the GU! ~
soon as possible About 30 of them are Germans go2'
some TO Philadelphia and others to OAo and Wisconsin
Nearly all Of the others Italians VINO are on ''e
way to the vine-rowng districts of California MOST oi
them left New-York last evening
Lewis Hanswirth, steerage passenger, speaking W d
TRIBUNE reporter about the disaster, said VIC h"u
comparatively quiet passage and as SATURDAY heu' was
to be the last night for oil went 20 pen iee
sleep by sudden Jar which almost threw me oui Oh Ie
berth. thought for moment that we were
tIIjs mpressjon I awakened those of the passengers
who were still asleep and rushed on deck, WHERE
I mot the CAPTAIN. | asked him wnat WIS
wrong and he sald Nothing The pniser thil
passed me and said TO me Doht Dc
incasy the ship has ashore. Tell the other pasScn
grrs to he quiet and all will he Well tnen went pco
and got NV loose baggage together and assisted ohes VI
nnr neonIe and then went deck again. MeahWmi9
they mad got n line across the sea nom tne ahu an"
were on the point of conveying the trst acIo
went in the third boat, the captain asked me 10 no
so since | knew English ana colid ASSIST os W
our neoplr who were ignorant of the language. lue
canaIn and the officers did all in theiI power 10 save te
shin, and aficrward to save our baggage. saw the
steward Ip 10 his waist in the water rescung our goods
We lost nothing OF baggage; part OF IL was dam
aged but everything saved" Hanswrth conciiued
his statement by again speaking OF the Kindness Vi INC
CAPTAIN OF the Rusland -. ,o
julius Her!er another passenger, sad that dense
fo, hsJ surrounded the vessel for about three DAYS lie
mad heard Capt Call say that If he in Capt DE liOi
sey's Mace he could not have acted differently As lar
as he knew, the vessel not i'll charge oil thc pot
when she ran on SnOre. . -.,-
Anna ceee one of the stcerage passengers in speak
ns of the transfer of the passengers 10 the Shore sd
that six women. including herself, were put III lc me-
car Ii was Just like coffin, she said, ana When we
were about II the officer sad nov gel INTO your
coffin In The hurry of the moment We got III so aWa-
yaldly that one side OF the ecar was heavier han the
other and then i'll the attempts To pull II on shofe the car
was unset the other fell on top oi me Inc
water too, rushed in and was nearly drowned Al an
skin. They took US private house near the place
where We were wrecked, and the people put Us TO Drd
and dried our clothes. The people, dO not KNOW t-F
naIncs-lld all in thciI power to make Us comfortable
AftcrWard WhCn our clothes were dry ana We were
thoroughly warmed, We went to the hotel