The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-10

Saved-Additional Passenger List-The
Officers of the Vessel.
LONDON. Mayo
No tidings of the State of Florida, have
been received to-day. 1t is still hoped
that she may be afoat, although badly
disabled. There was no storm of sufii-
cient strength to founder an ocean-going
steamer, although gale may have car
ried off her boats, crippled her screw or
disabled her engines. 1t is difficult for
steamship men to believe that she has
Oeen lost The iceberg theory is adj
vanced, but as the State of Florida was
divided into five water-tight compart-
ments il is believed that even though her
forward bulk-head was crushed in she
would still be able to keep on her
course at slow rate of speed.
If she was struck amidships, as the
City of Brussels was in Liverpool
Bay, she would have sunk, however, as
the middle compartment doors on ocean
steamers are seldom secured as the law
provides.
The dynamite story is not seriously
considered here. 1t was started by "a sem
sational evening paper, but the morn
ing papers, even the Times, denounced 1t
as cruel canard, calculated to arouse
public animosity against the Irish people.
NEW YORK, May 5.
Austin, Baldw in & Co., claim to have
advlces that majority at least of the
passengers and crew of the State of Flor
lido were rescued by sailing vessel due
at this port in a few days. Investigation
shows that the cargo was shipped by we'll
known firms, and the detectives were
acting on advices from this city to arrest
an embeZzler supposed to be on board the
steamer The signals sighted by the City
of Rome were difficult to make out, owing
to snow at the time, and she passed the
ship hurriedly without showing answer
ing signals.
Mr.. Baldwin, the agent of the State
Line here, says this morning that he has
received no further information in re-
gard to the State of Florida, but he
thought there could be no doubt but she
had been lost. The chances were that
nearly all, if not all, the passengers and
crew had been saved. The fact that the
two boats which were picked up con-
tanned no gear indicated that this had
been taken out by some persons. Had
the occupants of the boat been washed
overheard some of the gear would GER
tainly have been left. Everything in the
report concerning the boats indicated
that their occupants had been picked up
by some vessel. The boats themselves
had doubtless been turned adrift because
they were too large to hoist on board the
rescuing vessel. The two large boats of
the Florida would hold fifty persons
each. Mr.. Baldwin did not think that
dynamite had anything to do with the
loss of the Florida. Everything which
went on board her had been carefully ex-
ahmed.
In addition to the complete list of cabin
passengers sent Saturday, the following
steerage passengers were on board
IL. Il. Aakre, L. Benson, j. Benson,
Alice Bouri, w. ID. Brown, wife and in
FAINT, Mary Burns, f. Gaming, L. Church.
aus, Mrs. A. Dick, w. Dick, Hugh Dom
nelly, 10. Forrman, w. Gillitwist, j.
Grant, Jos. Hale, w. Hale, Bernard Hen
dricson, John Hughes, John Hutchinson,
b. Johnson, Martin Jones, S. Leaverty,
Miss Lizzie Leonard, Fanny McAlpin, Su-
san McDermott, John Moore, Hugh Nor
gan, E. O'Donnell, j. Patience, Chas.
Peterson, Martin Peterson, Elizabeth
Pumilty, Kate Pumilty, Ella Rodgers, Peter
Rowling, Mrs. Jane Scoto, Il. j. Seglem,
Martha Shannon, Mag Shannon, Edward
Stewart, Ellen Stewart, Miss Ella Stew
art, John Stewart, Robert, Stewart,
Robert Stewart, Jr., William Stewart, Il.
Watson and Benjamin Wedlake.
The officers of the State of Florida
were all well known here. The following
were the principal officers, with brief
sketches of their careers:
j. w. Sadler, Captain. He has been in
the employ of the State Company since it
was first organized. He was over eight
years in command of the steamship State
OF Indiana, and left her to take charge of
the Florida the last time that the latter
left Glasgow. Captain Sadler has borne
high reputation, and he was regarded
as very skillful navigator. He is about
fifty years old and unmarried
james Thomson, first officer. lie has
been employed for the last seven or eight
years by the State Line Company, and was
regarded as a skillful officer. For several
years he was the first officer of the State
of Pennsylvania, and was transferred to
the Florida when Captain Sadler took
command of her. He is about forty live
years of age and is married His family
resides at Glasgow.
Younger, second officer. He has been
in the employ of the State Line for the
last seven years, and has been regarded
as promising officer. He Is twenty-seven
years OF age and is married His family
reside near Glasgow.
Allen, third officer. He has been in the
employ of the company for the last seven
years. He Is forty years of age, and has
a family in Scotland.
John Blaine, Chief Engineer. He has
been in the employ of the company for
nearly nine years, and has been on the
Florida four years. He has been regarded
as one of the best engineers in the employ
OF the company. Mr.. Blaine is married
and is about forty years of age.
Heslop, Second Engineer. He has been