The New York herald., 1878-09-15

OF six wcmss we're recovered together. In drown
and not one could have escaped from The
terrible grip One governess reports the loss OF seven
young girls who were unoer her care for the day.
Nearly hundred children were drowned One OF the
rescued passengers says that he never saw so many
children In arms before. Only three or four young
and dlty men. Thrssfourths OF the passengers
probably women aud children. One man who swan
his vile, swan ashore with her and then discovered
that she perfect stranger TO him. Some OF tho
rescued are delrioua Whole families are lost lhave
not noticed The names oil any Americans ss having
been board, though on the body Of an elderly AN
named Wright was iound y letter from son In
America and addressed A. Wright
STATEMENTS OF SURVIVORS.
The accounts IN the daily papers TEEN with per
sona narratives OF the survivors OF this torroe dis
asler. One man managed 10 catch rope which
dangled n ON the bows OF the big steamer and actu-
ally hauied htnssif up It hand over hand. till he
tsed hand 90 up thirty ses OF slippery rope any
time. but desth and that horrid Hood, wavy with
TO escars. There were lew who coud get hoid OF the
ropes that were hung out from the Bywe Castle but,
stranae TO say, several women were among those who
ciutched at them. One Of tbs survivors says that
when tho Princess Alice went down he jumped into
the water, ana, on rising, swam to The
Of one of the ropes 10 which three sIr,s
and young man were already chnglng. The girls
we're shriskisg out, Lord Jesus save us" As these
live desperate people hung tor their lives to the
friendly rope they looked up 70 the buwarks AID
thought they saw a man about TO lot the rope go.
for a. and We cried ont 10 the man not to do IT,"
Another man, who lost his wife and three children,
caught hold of piece OF wood and was In mortal fear
lest IL should be snatched away from him by The hun
dreds OF men women and children struggling Tor
ltfs and shrsking IN agony who surrounded him. he
Was very nearly done hlmse when he Was caught by
TWO men OF ihs barge Charity with the exclamation
GAN right, old ielow," ana dragged into boat One
pOer man who was rescued amt taken TO the Essex
shore dsrtous a n,xht shouting for hts VITO and
chtdron In the morning ms mi recovered its balance
and 1t was lound that he had lost his father, his
mother, lis vile and his tour children 1t is hard 70
what more ne could have lost In the world. One
young woman, the survivor OF family party OF Jour-
was saved-nO enc knows how-and she cannot tell,
tor ehe Gas ionnd wandering about streets OF
Woowich quite crazy uttsriag only AZ intervals the
words, "Father-mstber."
INQUIRY, or coURsE
There 10 TO be searching inquiry into the causes OF
H. Il by the net OF God the oarelsssaess
the among dspsssouate persons Is thai
was as uuprsvensabls It was untoressen--np acci.
dent, In iAot. Tho Times says the wreck 10 "the
most terrible disaster Of tho kind which 1t has
ever been dusy TO report" and tnat hsre 10
thing like IT, nothing approaching u, either Tor the
unpracsden ted circu ef The for the
enormous loss OF life that attended 1t. The loss Of
five or six hundred lives on tho Thames is ap-
paling occurrences. which we cannot be satisfied to
reckon the chapter of accidents and suffer pass
by accordingly. The public Will demand some oth er
OF H. and somo that the danger II
has revealed will Tor the future be more fully pro-
vided against" II such British jury as that iu-
pannelled IN the Deutschland wreck decide the
question shnll be much mistaken.