The daily gazette., 1878-02-02
FIFTH EDITION,
A GREAT CRIME.
FURTHER DETAILS OF THE LOSS
OF THE METROPOLIS.
One Hundred Men Lost. Leak
ing and Unseaworthy from
she staRt.--Clingfng for Is
Hours 10 Rigging
Wet and Frozen.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS
CALAMITY

WHO Is RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS
CALAMITY
NoRroLK, Va, Feb. i, 1878.
So far the news from the wreck Of the
steamer Metropolis is exceedingly mea-
ger. Only one survivor has arrived In
this city, and he being bricklayer Is un>
able to tell but little beyond his individ-
ual experience in escaping from the ves-
sell. Il .,
THE METROPOLIS INACCESSIBLE,
The scene Of the wreck Is distant
about sixty or seventy miles from Nor
folk, a,.d is inaccessibles either by land
or water. 1t Is much worse In this res
pect than wss the Huron wreck, which
could be reached through the canal and
sound much easier. But the Metropolis
cannot be reached except by tugs draw
ing ut the most two feet and half of
water or BY tedious journey over bad
road, rough and uneven beach and
every other obstacle known TO travellers.
MORE PROOFS OF CRIME.
In corrsboration Of my remark In re
gard 10 the unsea~orthiness Of the
Metropolis, will state that at tho time
Of the break In the Seaboard and Roa-
noke Railroad at Weldon, she was
chartered by that road to run cotton
from Wilmington, N. O.. she sailed
from New York on December 20 and
reached Hampton Roads on the 24th in
In distress, having been out over ffty
hours, aud was towed up by tie naval
tug Pinta, leaking badly, the water
being several inches deep In the engine
room, and her bilge pumps constantl,
working. Her boiler was also so much
out Of order that it required patching to
enable her 10 get up steam enough :C
run in smooth water.
Dead Bodies along the Beach,
The scene along the beach for milei
north and south Of the wreck is de
scribed as being distressing TO the las
degree. The shore Is strewn with
pieces Of the wr, ok, and bruised and
battered bodies constantly appear
taking the place of those who hav'
been teDderly taken up and inferred
A large number nf survivors are ais,
more or less injured, some of them be
ing entirely disabled from the coils
Stone in the water with driftinI
pieces of the wreck. They are scat
tered all over the country for miles
wherever accommodations could b
Obtained, and the nearest TO the seen
of the disaster are not less than thre
miles away.
sTATMENr OF A suRvIvoR.
+ The following Is the statement {
. Richard w. Brook, of No. 227 Pric
J street, Germantown, Pa, the only snrv
a vor whe has or can reach here to-nigh
|. We had only three women an boar,
y one of whom was the wife OF tha Chi
I engineer, the other the wife of Mr.. Hs
' ris, the steward. Tho third ones nam
I was not known. and a crew of twenl
a seven men, all told, left PHILADELPHIA
about four p. m. on Monday, .)anuai
28, and lay In the Delaware River unit
nine a. IN. Tuesday, January 70.
AT the Breakwater we left the pill,
and Mr.. Comfy, the clerk TO Mr.. Collin,
, We then proceeded TO sea, and ALL I
use his own words, was joyful. Whe
about twenty-five miles out from RI
Breakwater, at five o'clock, the fir
mate, name unknown, found the shi
had sprung aleak, and the men were in
= mediately put to work throwing out Co
to tighten her. After getting rid of fro
nifty tons to seventy-five tons, and beiI
then unable to find the leak, Captai
10 Ankers ordered all hands to put on Ii
preservers, az the ship was making wat
20 very fast and putting the fires out.
- On Thursday morning, about thr,
o'clock, all hands were called to raj
sail, and the ship was headed directly f
ls the lighthouse, which was supposed to
: st. Charles Light. At half-past seven
81 m, about two hundred yards from d
shore, the ship struck The waves il
mediately commenced washing the dec
from. stem TO stern, breaking in I
weather side.
THE FIRST MAN TO LEAVE
We all stood this for about two hou
when one man, a fireman, started to swi
ashore, also the first mate, after whom
followed We managed to get asht
after a hard swim lauding about q h
mile above the place where the 81
10 struck. Found no one on shore to affo
Y us any assistance. After we three IN
reached the snore all were so weak as
be scarcely able to move. A boat w
six men put off from the ship and 81
SO ceeded in reaching the shore with all
board.