The New York Herald Newspaper, September 27, 1859, Page 2

=— for keeping tho Baleons . e oe wn | be known that “ i eeng ane enaw te gt] =~ | ou he was fill pitts wavert Another ath) cl ery thal caer, Wit Gl 268 CCQUEIUL GLUES, | AMEBODEC pe We) kndwitliat something terrible OC are ay to be begged pera or - ), OF ster going i ue cot mirrers, sofas, rich carpets, jounges, and other | curred | yat coukd scarcely tell what. Nothing demonstrates | [iWUig> Tomy oy peo menea De ae | a nce Ma, os A mf ca and foe: furniture, was the scene of this vad disaster, | the’ reat size as well as strength of this ship so forcibly Various parts of the ship and attached to the pumps, the | similar ‘feed pipe tan’ il ‘Saloon, ‘fu @ur China, Great F astern, Berlin and Dut it will be iinmediately | there re also fico sand ewer casing whicn, 4) To show the eafety ofthe iron partitions or balkhends, it | 8, the fact that probably not one-half of the persons on | men were hurrying to and fro with buckets, and tons of | gtripped, Mr. Scott Rur eeli, it is slated, being oa ingly wale: ve prevented it, 1 saved myself froa» old open, would have preventec ave } Brussels Go’ -respondences is sudcient to mention wat the captain's daughter, a iiWle | hoard at the time of the accident know that anything | Sfip¢ sure pate i torrent down into the spacious bokd glad to havo an ua of | agin i a arrange. | Hg ch oda by tein owe ut Saar estan girlofeleven or twelve years of age, was playing in the { serious had happened to the ship by the sound of the ex- | and sxaoke. -All the time tho good ship kept on her course aD) LE CenDucT OF 1 AND o¥Ficens Boyd, who was astoker. of that watch; 1 knew Bim very" 7 ANI T. Indies? cabin, adjoining the yrand saloon, when the explo. | plosion, until they saw the effect in the falling pipe, the ag Maange Sothing thie had bape parpened pes i par areas Rio i bet rr) mes aap crricese. esta tiiinn leat Giawear aa adams; Wut have oot See ARRIVAL © © THE VANDERBILT § oon occurred, and was totally anajured, shower of micsiles and the rush of steam. Several | 7 OE hcrrofore, and the screw kept steadily work. | lkeeonduct of Mr. Atkinson, the the vessel then wince they hiave boon dead ne cupoe 1, who, But lhave gone a little ahead of the correet elarting Jadies fainted outright, and the scene of confusion | ing at bout two-thirds her speed. wheva the explosion took place, and the mags of steam % ruslaed trough the deck, accot ed by broken glass, point, to give'youa Drief account of the present gtate of | and terror Y will not attempt to; describe, Thero bigamy Biers Sasrent EARBISON. ther m4 naa Gants ot ee are, ily the ship since the Occurrence of the unfortupate accident. | Was Bo sbrmking from duty, however, in the hy with waler, were a by the sen Wdtoowed, hap his position on the gallery amidst . He As the Great Fastere was not launched at the time origi- | officers. Caplain Harrison immediately seized a ropa poms Frroee A from the pilot of ¢ ‘@ port,” repeated | ‘old onevef the passengers who was near him, he f mt H knew the engines; he was there to take care of nally announced fer the important ‘paptism, so neither | and threw himeelf down into the yawning gulf caused bry fapidly aa Sey 9 = erty itwas ceneaaass moied, the pte ree aharoee 1 chieebemanld ere pees Lonny Hastings chine my ue ner:—I ama surgeon, and in conjunction with Dr, Wat- gon, had joint medical superintendence of the Great Enet- ern} about six o'clock on Friday evening we were standing: together abaft the after-house on deck, which is termed saloon; while standing there wo heard @. srost nels, 8.00 an, explosion, and we immediately ram ‘ward and superinte1 the conveyance of the injured ‘THE EXPLO,SION ON THE GREAT EASTERN, ommen' Deautiful r ; e Shesenmpanion; the space the: bad. bogp, Jes ripe that Yh" "And he continued looking steadfastly ahead u z TH T was sho sent abroad on her ‘clal errand on the day o beach her at the first fitting favorable spot be ‘4 irties to the ‘dispensary; 1 went down into the no, @METAN.S OF THE CATASTROPHE first stated. Ske was advertised to start on the morning | splendid valoon, the admiration of all that had visited ‘the | sound. The men at tho whcel Beaved with a hearty good, ahvoug th ek clout of steam fu before am Sowell oes ete gery ans oven into the aaloun, seen ae of Tuceday the 6th of Septem'ver, and thousands of people | great skip long before her day of railing, Five oF six nan | will to arin te ea great: ship. aha tat patere | from the Cunard line, kept to his place at the ‘wheel, al ta a aang or thirteen Drought into the Bost, ire m'ver, ’ 3s ine | went the tlle! » kept 8 piace m4 it ee CI'TING SCENES ON BUARD. colfected on Roth banks Of V’ne Thames to witness the exo- | followed him, while Mr. Scott Russell rushed to the engine Deen as docile as a lamb, and moving as casy asa Thatnes | though for a poset he was, ae every one elo, wholly | Sere etre rye pet As aa ne aioe 1 roe we EXC!" a ‘dus of thismedern ark. “Eyerything wag not ready, how- | room tosee that the Gres were extinguished. Bind this | steamer above bridge, torsed, and pated, and rolled in, bape m4 w apes pias poe the officers and } “#8es, and the others were very trifling injures; “ ever, until the morning of tho 7th, and the Jarge baby | been a wooden ship one of two calamities must have the most awkward manner, She no steerage, wa: e gal condu othert the persons recetving . them, Yate wee th ae ship or returned to their duty; John Boyd, fireman, was first under our care; when brought up he was suffor ing from very severe seaids all over the ody from head to foot; I saw him immediately after the accident, and con- tinued to attend him to the time of his death; the cause of death was a great shock to the whole system, and gene- ral collapse, in consequence of scalding; reaction never taking place; I came on shore with the dead bodies. ‘The: witness also described the deaths of the other persons ap’ attributable to scalds. The names of those dead are John Boyd, Michael Mackloboy, Michael Mahone, Robert Adams, and John Edwards; in all the cages the cause of death was- the same, all being very severely scalded. There was; scarcely apy difference in the injuries they received; and none of them rallied. Boyd died on the morning aad Mackleboy on the evening of the 10th, Adams on the even- ing of the 1th, and Edwards. this morning; 1 oan ently: all the bodies: Dr. Watson was next called, and corroborated in every” respect the evidence of Mr. Slater. The vesvel was so strong that, notwithstanding the violence of the explosion, it had ‘no effect whatever upon the motion of the vessel, and had it occurred in any other steam vevsel it must bave greatly injured if not sunk it. Mr. R. P. Brereton then called and examined. He said:—I am chief ¢f Brunel’s engineering staif, T heard an fqpeward: I was opposite the paddle ‘dexes, and turned round, when 1 saw the foremost ap fom the deck; it leaped up ax it were abo et, and a shower of splinters and broken plate f@hes began falling all around; I hurried the lady, with whom I was conversing, aft, assured her there was no danger, and told her to hold ber bead down, su that the splinters might not fall on her face, and then im- medjately went forward tosee what was the matter; I found the funnel lying on the deck broken in two parts ; on looking down into the hole, out of which steam and smoke was escaping, I heard men crying out, “ help!? and “ water!’ a good many of the passengers and crew were round there; the flre-hose was immedately Jaid on incase there should be any fire below, and wo sopply the water the men down below were calling out ior; as soon as the steam had cleared away a little, the and she was das! ag she pleased ‘atsome |, Men, deserves special notice. Among others, ten knots ftuoneh water, With Hastings on ther pore | Xins, boatswain, who was the first to Acamaneny Captain side and @ large ship running across her dows. It Harrison into the saloon after the accident iB ai J was the appearance ef this ship that led to tho seaman, who also rendered great iti he u aa ng order to port her helm, and not with any | in bringing up the wounded sokers and dromen. view of runing the ‘vessel in’ shore. Fortunately the |, breakfast, a suggestion thrown out by sever: mention nD, strange ship wore round, amd escaped inevitable | .t0 the effect that some mark of ropyet for aes os yfewe destruction. Owing to the extraordinary foreaight and | éving conduct of the men ng of nympathy vf great practical know) of Captain Harrison, chaing had | @F8 and wives and families of the odnes, mek pie Deen puton board jn order to provide againstany casualty | Cordial response, and when re eed nh te such as that which»bad ecourred. These were royo | AlfredPaget, a sum of over £120 imamediately through the sheaves, and made good as quickly as pos- |, ¢d over'to the officers of the ship for distribution, in ac- sible, and the ship was in.@ few minutes again under the || cordance with the wishes of the passengers, -. most perfect , and this cause of atarm was re- LANGLEY'S STEERING APPARATUS. Mie moved. poe of the car it ae a biter § Parise f | An this crisis it was fond ny he plan, of the the rope for bringing rou! rudder, “I must not omit’ apparatus answered perfectly. It is the ingenious contri- to state that Captain Harrison had objected in the strong- |” vance of Mr. Langiesh of Blackwall. By its means Sewell est manner te the use of ropes for the tiller, and he was, |" was enabled to steer the abip with as miuch certainty by after a written protest, allowed to put chains on board to |) 1 to those aft as if he himself had been at the ‘stern, bde.applied in cage of need. The captain had also, in the’,|;, This arrangement consists of a small dial with a’moveable’ early of the day, laid some stout running lines~| "index, is securely, fixed on the bridge, and connected by through blocks hear the tiller, which could be attached at} rods with another of the came description at the stern of a moment's notice to the auxiliary steam engine working |” the vessel}, in front of the man at the wheel. A movement on deck, and used temporarily for steering, or, in the | of the index figure of this contrivance to port or starboard. event of the uller ropes going, until the chains could be | on tho bridge gives an.identifical movement to the one in axed. front of the helmsman at the same moment. By a similar CAUSES OF THE EXPLOSION. plan the rudder itself is: conneeted with a second small Wis now time to inquire into the cause of this ‘‘rup- | dial defore the helmsman, which’ tells by its index that ture,” or “disruption,” or “explosion,” as it was va- | they have exactly obeyed orders; while this, comgnunicat- riougly called by those who viewed the accident and its | ing’in its turn to the officer on the bridge, shows him that effects from different points-of view. It is the custom in | his intentions have been executed; the movement of the constructing some steamships, to have anvarrangement | latter dial being regulated by those at the rudder, the offi- which ie called ‘+feed-pipe casing,” around the lower part | cer on duty has always the helm before him, so that the of the funnel, resting upon the boilers. The heattrom | men cannot deviate a quarter of a point frou her course the furnaces and through the boiler tubes which escapes | even for a gecond. The communication by electricity into the funnel is of Ponce orgenn creat, and ta lomee FOr with the engine room was also found to answer admirably. tion is much hotter than the upper part of the funnel. It was thought that this great heat might be rendered useful very posainie Rl a tte ae aes in partially heating the water before it was run into the by the two Poattemen ‘Mr. Slater and Mr. W: ‘4 doilers, and that this water being of a lower temperature | aiieg by the liberally power professional Free) of than the metal of the funnel, would serve ingome mea. | Dy Tits Rappeden les tenealy to! oc eat nate: a8 a shield or protection from the intense heat of . those paris of the ship which were near it. Inthe caso | UNder their adspices the wounded men were taken into walked out? his swaQdling etothes under the charge of | happened, either of which would have proved fatal—she Very efficient and capable nurecs, godfathers, tutors and | Woukt bave been blown asunder, or seven fire and burmed Parents, There stgod Mr. Scott Russell, the fond father, | to the water’s edge. on the ‘bridge, to transmit orders to the engincers; Capt. I have not yet described the direct cause of the ex- ‘Harrison, ond Mr. Atkingon the pilot, areon the starbeard plosion. To save fucl and feed the boilers with water paddebox, nnd Capt. Comstock—in the words of the | Partially heated a double smoke'pipe was constracted, Times—“one of the ablest of American navigators,” | OF am outer ‘ijacket,” put ‘on six inches from the-ether, stood aft on the deck, to transmit messages to | the space between the two ‘being filled with water. This, the men at the wheel, Mr. Pronse, the chief | f course, Decomes heated .as the smoke and blaze as- <Micer, tock charge wf the fore partof the vessel; botweon | cendthe chimacy. From tbis it sstrawn inte the boiler. pirty and forty rode, or x very long riffe shot from tho | There is, T believe, @ stop coomtand a safoty-valve ce J station of Captain Comstock, near the after part of the | e'of which was veglected ‘by the person in eharge, au deck. Bear in mind that as the Great Eastern requires a the other (the yalve) @ecame clogged by suit; hence the little armey of four or ‘five ‘hondred men to manage her, ‘which crusbed/or oN ERE aa tho arrangements for “transmitting orders over ber acres hae Nei Onn See eee er aT of decks, and through her thousands of ‘yards of pipes, tubes, condnits and signal passages, must de nearly as extensive ag tte means employed. by a general on a field ‘of battle to set hig platoons inmotion. Hinaily, as the anchors were'drawn up, the moorings cast of, the rudder hek! aright, the fires blazing and the steam up, at pre- WWames of the Hilled and Some of the Wounded. THE WAR IN CHINA Revorts of the Battle of Taku. SEVERE FIGHTING ON BOTH SIDER Russians Suppo’ ied to Have Aided the ‘Chinese. wards. ‘The emoke pipe ran directly through the centre ef the grand saloon, and alao through a large cabia'on the deck Dolow. Each of thece eabins was surrounded by berths, Dut novene person was in the Jower cabin, in the grand galeon, or in any ef the berthsiaround. ‘he large pipe— cisely a quarter past Seven o'clock the buge n | the-outer jacket seven fect in diameter, and the inner six turning and the Great Fastern commenced her carcer, | fet~-Was surrounded in the saloon by enormous mirrors. ; Soon the enormons paddles vegan to move, and while | These mirrors filed the ealoons with fragments of broken sbouts and durrahs rent, the air on every side, the great | lass, and rained a shower on the upperdeck. The smoke ship moved majestically down the stream. pipe in its whole length is about sixty-five hp high, being I shall never forget the feeling of exbileration and ex- | forty feet below the upper deck and twenty-five feetabove. citement at that moment. I fancied ‘I could hear the | Jt is im three rectons; of course fastened together beating of Mr. Scott Ruesoll’s heart in unison with the [ “BY @ bamd and rivets. At tiene joints the pipe was motion of the engines, as his great work proclaimed in | 2/0wn asunder, the upper “section separating from , " eae, the middle near the reof of the grand saloon—the ee a a upper deck—and falling on the deok ; the middie section WHE BRITISH COMMENCED 1 ATTACK. Twelve Thousand French Troops Or- dered for China. Large Navei Reinforcements from Englanu. aie va Ee portan moment ip the wistory ot | plown into fragments was strewed about the saloon and | of the Great Fastern, where there is #0 large an amount of Svery bing that, btunea Skit, conti docitber t@ Yeasea. | captain and several of the crow went down with ropes ‘Bifect of the Disaster on the. Muglo- ] Comme The UP Mown the Themes was a triumphal | a and the lower one algo collapsed and buret, ling | fire required for ‘the heavy boilers, it would, of | Svein oS yrurveliiowassecompisbed, Tuedoctors of | round them, and began to bring up the wounded, as seon march. Every foot of ground on the quay at Greenwich, in front of the Naval Hospital, and for a long distance below, was black ‘wih people. Though the hour was rather inconveniently eurly, the denizens of this crowded suburb of-London,’and in fact Jarge numbers from Lon- don itself, fiocked dewn to the water's edge to witness a spectacie that perhaps will not Be seen again on the Thames during the present generation. Inoumerable water crsft, varying in size from ocean steamers Pt or, but with Mr, Brunell. lawn to) hi prcaent OC Sees manent Jive TOE Saces ear) re a to pte you a-faithful account of the round sately swan, and the swan harmed ‘them met, |. 90 and steaming qualities of tho ‘vessc), and also ofthe bora i oe ela iain ti . ee | accident, andop some future occasion will go more fully fore’ the tor, ning isp’ ssage. Fi ‘eis i. this insignificutt craft been worthy of its eee ae = AE as they are more Kingfisher—it would have dived to the bottom and disap. | [HY developed. Loxvos, Sopt. 13-6 P. M. peared, at least for a season, for baying presumptuously ‘The Directars of the Great Ship Company have just had dared to occupy the channel, every foot of which was | 9 meeting, and.announced that the trial trip will be de- required by this modern mistress of the seas. The bark | jayed for two-or three weeks, £0 you will not see themon- and.eemall schooner lay directly in the way at Blackwail | ster in your harbor before the Indian summer. Point, the most difficult part of the channel that the great steamer bad to pass. It wasacritical moment. Four NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS. powerful steamtugs had the Groat Eastern in tow, and {Correspondence of the London Chronicle, Sept. 12.] ok me SPRED OF THB MAMMOTH SHIP. her course must be checked or she would run down the Several experiments were made by passengergon board unfortunate Dark. The tide was strong, the bawsers | to ascertain the speed we were going by, heaving’ blocks vo of the ste Fa ‘of wood and noting the time in seconds when they reach- fastening two of the steamtugs to the great steamer Sa ike clerm, A mean of & nounben oC thie. wes rank, parted, and, but for the skill and power with | and showed a result of one kot in 5:7, about equal to which ber engines were wielied, the great ship | ten andahalf knots an hour. At this time the paddies ve dee ashore by the I were making six revolutions and the screw thirty, the would have been run ashore by the strong ide, and the pao, being cazabie of fourteen, and the later of Yerty. Great Ship Company would have been in the Gazete a | vight. A subsequent statement from an official source bankrupt concern. But her engines, like six pairs of | was, that during-a portion of ber voyage the ship steamed worful horses, pulled her through. at the rate of nineteen miles an hour. This is doubtless coe Preat speed. Dut not so -great as she will ultimately ac- complish. Her dranght being very light, her screw was on the Greenwich | half out ater, and consequently had only half the ich lines Q Motive power which it will eventually possess. Under the and Woolwich lines, south of the river, and on the North |) Motive powar which it will eventual ee oes tone Woolwich railway, on the Exsex shore, brought down | her Weymouth trip might be taken as ber minimum, and thousands to witness the triamphal march of this monster | when properly freigbted sbe will accomplish much more. op. Ne craft eve Houte Cleo- ‘THE EXPLOSION. ag a Agata oe See ae aaa out hatf-past five, when the dinner was concluded, a patra’s barge, received the homage that was'pald to'the | f confusion and danger occurred, which contrasted commercial-leviathan. We bad no sooner got by the | in th most fearful manner with the satisfactory circum- dangerous point than cheer on cheer rent the ar, 1 |’ stances which had hitherto marked the movements of the noticed some doves or pigeons’ fly away apparently from | 8" as it was ascertained that there was no fire on board’ the people were reassured, and the ship proceeded on ber course, never having, in fact, stopped at all; as oon ae. the confusion, was over, I went and examined the broken funnel lying on deck; on the following morning it wae desired by the chairman of the company that several of” the engineers on board should examine the place where the explosion took place, so as to form_ some judgment as- tothe cause of the explosion; Mr. McConnell, locomotive engineer of the Northwestern Railway—a passenger—Mr. Scott Russell, Mr. Smith, the inventor of the screw pro- pellor, and Mr. Smith, an engineer and director of the Ar- tizan Engineer newspaper; Mr. Bate, the representative of the firm of Bolton & Watts, the screew engineers’ depart- ment, were the gentlemen who made the examination; we. an opportunity of secing the construction’ of the funnel and its water casing, which we could not have seen if the accident bad not happened, because the covering round the funnel was blown away by the explosion; the main funnel was exposed, because all the boarding round was blown away there was nothing unusual in the funnel itself, but in oth~ er engines there ig not generally a water jacket; we could not tell before the boarding was blown away what caused the explosion, but. this at once led us to soe what. Was the cavee of the explosion, without any drawings or other explanation; we ascertained that the funnel waa double for <about forty feet in length; Thad not seen the drawings Tor the engines; they did ‘not come from our office; there was six inch space between the funnel pro- per and the outer room or jacket all round; the diameter of tbe inner cylinder was six, and that of the ougor seven feet; the explosion’ took place halfway down; the inner casing was found in a collapsed state, and the outer casing- had burst out, the same thing having been seen on the upper half on deck; the object of this ca- sing is to prevent ‘cold water being ded to- the boiler direc there was an afparatus pro- vided to prevent’ any oxcess of preesure taxing place in this water jacket; this apparatus consists of stand pipe which stands’ up to nearly the level of the top of the funnel, and is connected with the water jacket; the standpipe, in fact, constitutes a safety valve, by open- ing at the top ag soon as the steam reaches a certain pres- sure, the water runs out the top of the standpipe, and- his governs the pressure that is required invide tbe case; after we had seen the wreck,and taken all theginiorma tion we could get, we learnt that the feed water bad been sent direct to the boiler, as being the most direct course, the donkey engine not’ working very well; the donkey pgine drove the pump, and had some difkculty in doing its work; the conseqyence was, that the donkey engine sent the cold water direct to the boiler; two of the don- key engines were disabled, and it was all they could do ‘o keep the boiler supplied with water, which accounts or the shutting off the circuitons route through the jack- et; an explosion ought not to have ensued had the stand- pipe been in operation; our attention was then drawn to what was in operation in the standpipe; there we found What might be termed a lip or plug paseing ‘hrough the bottom of it capable of being turned, avd we found that it had been shut off, leaving no vent whate' and the two vents being shut up was the immediate causa- of the aczident; if either of them had. ten tn operation— that is, if the water had been supplied through the casing, o#- the tap had been turned, the explosi not have hap. pened; the steam must have on generating, and no one seems to know how or when cock came to be shut; two or three days before the ship started something was required. to be done to it; the standpipe was too short, and the water ran over too soon, and it wag lengthened; up to that time, therefore, the cock must have been open; it ts presumed that some workman must have turned the cock « Sor some purpose of his own, and forgot to turn it back or. omitted to do so; it cannot be turned by the band, but re- sires, Ap ashe called the eat sy the Jury—There was no means of discovering that this had been done. 4 By the Coroner—The tap ought always to have remained open, and the cock, in point of fact, was only there for course, be a consideration to apply’ this principle, MEME ibekd hardly hava expacsat a0. Seesona & lo and to endeavor to economise the fuel as much as at iprofessizcal Absit at early a period, possible. The grand saloon or ladies drawing room is, Or | but they acquitted themselves manfully under the unanti- rather was, traversed by two of the five or six gigantic | cinated pressure, and deserve the warmest acknowledg- funnels of the ship, and it was thought that the tempera- | tents for the zeal and consideration with which they ex- ture would be much too bigh unless this system of water | cuted their very painful task. Previous to my leaving Jacketing or casing was adopted. Accordingly around | the ship I visited the hospital and medical depart. the lower part of each funnel was pldced an iron case oF | Ment. The professional report shows that at that cylinder, and the space—about ten inches—which was time two firemen were dead, one trimmer was misSing— Detween this outer and inner case was filled with seven | ihe same who is supposed to have gone overboard tone of water. | A pump ought to be constantly employed | some stokers are so severely injured that the majority of in foreing water into the casing or circular ep brags them will, it is feared, die. Some of the poor fellows when heated to a certain degree, would pass off into the | who were brought up from the stokehole exhibited noble boiler beneath, affording a supply of warm instead of cokt / quatities. One whose hands were nearly scalded off could Water. Of course, if the water is not drawn off, and | With dificulty be restrained from going to look after some fresh supplies of cold poured in, the water will in'time | Orie other colleagues, and the one most seriously imjured, become of the same temperature ag that of the inner iron and who died on Saturday morning, told the doctor not to casing, and if it should approach to boiling heat and gene: | wait by him, but to go to some others who were more hurt rate steam, then, if the steam cannot escape, there will | than he was. The injuries which the firemen sustained de an explosion, as in the case Ce Meo sy & ae appear to haye acted in a most serious manner upon the where | t strength is _ insu te work. “Ting | BeFvous system, and the deaths have arisen from exhaus- the safety "valve 18 not permitted to. work. This | tion rather than from the severity of external wounds or Was exactly what tok piace on board the Great | contusions. No bones wero broken, and some of the men do Eastern. | The funnels at the lower art pecame much | not know whether they were scalded by the water or the heated, the cock in the feed-pipe was shut off, and the | steam which rusacd out of the casing. whole affair became a closed iron tank, in which the steam rapid)y accumulated, and finding no vent and not | REGULATIONS ON THE ARRIVAL OF THE VESSEL AT sufficient resistance, exploded with the terrific force indi- PORTLAND. cated by the fact of its having torced the whale funnel up- On arriving at Portland no visiters were allowed to wards through two decks and flooring and into the air | come on board, and it was stated that no permission of above the upper deck. The actuul result was the same as | the sort would be given until Mon (this day). The though the engineer had constructed an iron tank perfect- | grand ealoon will be covered up, and the lower deck of ly air and water tight, which he had filled with water and | the compartment where the accident occurred will be allowed to be heated until it burst, for the purpose of see- | closed.up, and but for the huge funnel lying on the deck ing what would be the effects of such ap explosion upon | there would be ‘nothing to show that an eruption of a ‘the ship in reference to her peculiar system of building in | miniature volcano had taken place on the Great Fastern. water tight compartments. Nothing can be more simple ‘The number of passengers on board was not more than or more efticient for the purpose of keeping down the tem- | a hundred, and they inclided Lord Alfred Paget, the perature in the neighborhood of smoke funnels; but the | Marquis of Stafford, Lord Mountcharles, Mr. and Mrs. theory requires to be carerully carried out, for if this is | Herbert Ingram, M. P.; . Ayrton, M. P.; Mr. Roy not dove, as is shown by tbe recent calamity, the only | Campbell, Mr. Nasmyth, Mr. Appold, Mr. Hobbs, Sr. and effect is to create a volcano, terrible in its action, and not | Mrs. Leverson, the golicitor of the company; Mr. Smith, redeemed in the slightest degree by any compensating ad- | the inventor of the screw propeller; Mr. Penn, Jr.; Mr. vantage in increasing the power and efficiency of the | Scott Russell, Mr. McConnel, engincer of the London and working arrangements of the mac! ; Northwestern Railway: Sir John Burke, Mr. John Dillon, ASPECT OF THE GRAND SALOON AFTER THE DISASTER. | Admiral Hervey, Captain Comstock, who brought over the AS soon as the heat and steam had suflicieutly cleared to | General Admiral steam frigate for’ the Russian govern- admit of descending into the saloon, the sight which met ment from America, and others. There were not more the eye was of a most grievous character. The splendid | than about twenty ladies on board, who remained calm chamber which Mr. Crave had elaborated with somuch ap--|- and quiet amid all the confusion of the accident, propriateness to its constitutional character, wasa perfect From the Londot y / ruin, and its artist desitiner stood silent and amazed at The Uh es periiaontal: Si nlast bores the havoc which in a moment had been’ made of pll hig | nounced premature. ‘The i cherished designs. A cologsal mirror in the after part 0 receive passengers wit vs 4 the saloon had disappeared, not a fragment was leit in the | gho'was nok property. mann I Sikes soeteancoe ae gorgeous gilt framing; but, strange freak of the demon | dred men were on board; ad her “whoks organization of destruction, the Mirror just framed of the funnel | (without any disrespect to her exzelient captain) was a which had shot upwards was untoucbed, as well as the | disgrace to any business company. The directors, with two on each side of the saloon, aud which now reflected | the exception of Mr. Jackson, wore nearly all on Board Detween them along vista of tins. The mirrors which | and their chief desire, after the necident, sxemed to he 16" formed the covering af whe tunnel which had been the | induce the members of the press to give a garbled state cauge of 80 innch mischief were terally smashod to | ment of the accident. Twas with some difficulty. that atoms, and large fragments of the broken glass | these particulars were collected by those passengers whose were hauled upon deck a long distance aft of the paddle | duty it is to inform the public; and it will certainly not be wheels. The ornamental bronzed columns which supported | with the concurrence of the direction that they are stated the gilt cornices and elaborate ortamentation were either | jn print at the earliest opportunity. The whole voyage struck down or bentinto the most fantastic shapes; the had too much of an advertising and Stock Exchange cha- flooring, consisting of three-incu planks, was upheayed in | yacter about it, amd it would have been well if the great several places; the gangways leading w the sleeping cabins | floating island, before she was moved from the Nore’ had at the sides were shot away; the handrails were gone, | heen thoroughly fitted for sea. s and the elegant bay ad concealed beneath a chaos of frag- ‘The motion of the vesse) was very slight, even in a long peal pel a Grebe Ee ane ak! siprery. and heavy gale, and that was entirely of a’ gentle rocking ma Pi 1 nh one side, | character.| Her speod was established on Thursday and and the floor presented huge upheaving and rent chasms, Friday, in rough Channel water, to be about eighteen to through which might be seen the still greater ruin in the | twenty’ miles an hour: and the comparative immunity lower cabin. Below the saloon or drawing room is the | from sea sickness which her size will give the future pas. saloon of the lower deck, which was traversed by the | sengers cannot be too lighly estimated by thove who bato same fonnel as the one Above it. On each side of these | the sea and yet are forced to travel by it us saloons were small staircages leading to blocks The whole number of persons on board at the time of ping cabing, scarcely one of which would have | the accident was nearly 600, including the otlicers and the space above the boilers with pieces of iron. One other pipe was enveloped in the same way, and of course in danger of exploding; but the valve was at once examined and the fires put out. I -delieve this style of chimney and auxiliary feed pipebas deen tried (once or twice in the Collins line), ‘but wever with success, and ‘often with disastrous results. I hear that the responsi- dility of this construction in the big ship rests not with Mr. ‘Prench Alliance. Rapeleon’s Interpretation of the Villafranca Treaty, SPEEOH (OF THE DICTATOR OF PARMA. Avuetria Supports the French ideas-on Italy. ROBBERY (GF AN AMERICAN LADY AT HAVRE, FHE SAN JUAN DIFFICULTY. Epgiite Engineers for Brit Colunmsbia. DEATH ‘OF GENERAL SR WILLMAR EYRE, &., &c., &e, ‘Be Vanderbilt steamship Wanderbilt, Maptain Lefevre, aarived! attlis port at 93; o'clock yeste mtsy-morning from Ravre and Southampton. Her news has deen mostly n Mecipaied by the arrival of the City of Baltimore and North Amerkan. She Jett Southamptor at five o'clock in the evening @f the lithof Septem’ser, and brings details of the ex- citing vews telegraph ed from Farther Po.nt and Cape Race, when the Nort h American and City-of Baltimore wooched off those poin' s, with some hours later advices. The Vanderbilt bas; landed three hundred and sixty- Moree passengers, and | the French and English mails. Among the passer igers we find the following person- ages:—Rev. Dr. Beth une, lady and suite; Rev. Dr. Harden- deurg and suite/Lor ing Andrews and family, Mrs. D. B. “allen, Mr. Vanderbi It Allen, Capt. J. J. Comstock, Judge Paves and: many others; Mr. Strakosch, who has en- aged in Europe the following eminent artists for the “Acasiemy of Mu sic: —Mad’Hes. Crayelli, Adeline Speranza and Criscimanr:roe, Signors Bancarde, Stegelli, Sesta, Ferri fend ethers aren board. Also Monsieur Sage, accompa- miect by.2 troupo of twelve distinguished Parisian artists fer the New Yor!) « French thestre. Su‘ William. Fyre, late ia command of the forces in @anain, ced on Pbureday, Sth instant, at the age of 53 years. A cletachment@f the English Royal Engineers are ex- pecte: to-embark<for-Eritish Columbia on the 2d prox. to jom b er Majesty's-Commissioner there. Vic wn Gmanuehds disbanding bis army, butthe men are Eup): ed-with.paseports for Tuscany amd Modena, where they y pilkewell the army of Central Italy under Fanti and The crowd on chore seemed to increage as the vessel proceeded on her way. Every tra’ ship. There were smail groups of ladies and gentle- men collected in different parts of the ship, who, with the the after part of the steamer’s deck. They were carrier | most perfect unapimity were congratulating each other igeons, semt by some of the Wirectors, carrying tiny | Upon the success of the ship, when suddenly a loud report, ee B Y | as of the sakite of a heavy gun from some man-of-war, messages on silken paper—aswifter fight than the Queen's | awakened attention. The fore part of the deck was con: posts—to friends in London, announcing the safe passage | cealed in clouds of steam and showers of debris of all of the Great Eastern through the-most difficult part of the | kinds; and buge splinters of wood and broken glass told ? that home lent had occurred. Immediately fol- Thames. At Purfleet we came to a halt, and one of Trot- lowing the report the second funnel en the fore man’s anchors, of only <ix tons weight, dropped at the | deck rushed up into the air to a height varying, . he § u st according to different statements, of from ten to fitty feet. bows, brought the chip up, notwithstanding the strong | Tye "nage tunnel of iron, seven feet in. diamever, sepa: tide, in less than two minutes. Every single mortal on | rated into two portions, one falling forwards with a heavy board the Great Eastern, in the boats alongside, and on | crash, actoss | the oof oF the ladies’ saloon, ested interes agniticent | and the other resting partly upon the saloon and par shore, Seemed to feel vested ioterest in’ the magnidcent | Re. “in, “batterie. “Iti nok cany to describe Uo scene craft. Looking at the national interest of the undertaking, | of canfusion which followed, and the excitement cansed ‘we may say the proprietors of the Great Fastern are the | by reports that * nee had pons, ae oon ae Mi i Ni ay yess ight be expected to follow aby moment. e firs rrveeid (2 oe alana A eS Ee oT) thought of teveral on board was tovash down to the sa- passed displayed flags, and the bands played “Rule | joon cabin to endeavor to rescue or assist any ladies or Britannia,’ and “See the Conquering Hero Comes,’? persons, who might be unfortunately in the praca ot wel 5 ahh all ni cano. Captain Harrison, who was at the time of the acci- wei otheg_weleomne:. Sirs. /3B0 SUR SRY, AU RENE OF, Senveraspel in examining the binnacle compasses of the Purfleet, and ‘started on ber further journey at | ship, ran forward on seeing the cloud of steam, and as bali-past eight o'clock uext morning. At Gravesend | the staircases to the saloon were blown away, hegallantly g, Es one ad t la crowd — 9 made fast a rope antl jet himself down into the cabin, } been without its two or more occupants a few hours later sent ws the purpose of testing the st 7 A Garibs 6 bE. was ‘collected the largest crowd seen on the | faking six men to follow him. Every cabin was gearched | inthe evening. ‘They are now Ulewa dowe likes hove ple Tate ea SI a the passengers | "BY the Jucy—if the shakes Sigiouetiodanen right the Mr van, Mibster of the United States. ot Portigal, | river banks after pasting Greenwich. Several noblemen | and one child only found, it was the captain’s own daugh- | of cards, ‘The bedeing and Turnitare which they con- | of their danger. me y gnorant | cssel might have gone to ‘Auctralia and back without ite: came on board in the morning to accompany the ship te | ter, who was pasted safely on deck. By ® most provi- Portland. At Chapman’s Head another era.was marked | dential interposition the ladies had not, as on the previous " retired to the saloon from the dining room; but the in the career of the Great Eastern. The Jittle tugs that ac- her baving cleared up, had with one exception goue companied her were cut loose, and here, approzching the | direct on to the deck. » big shi PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPES. salt water) the Digallnainteee — = came One lady, Mrs. Parry, went into the saloon, and after own resources. The speed was increased, though only to | piayingfor a short time’ on the pinno, was ascending the a limited extent, and while the paddles were making five | sta se, and had just dit the top stair, Se peuane seve ° was thrown forward, and the staircase and ‘dec! in or six revolutions per mimute, and the screw sixteen or were blown into. thousands of gplinters. Moet happily, seventeen, she ran'fifteen statute miles an hour, equal to | the Jady received only aslght concussion from the fall’ thirteen knots. Looking af the fact that the ordinary rate | Mr. Francis Fuller was standing clase by the spot where ther engines w vl it the funnel fell, but he escaped wit! slightest possi of bel bngpnge will he Athy three, remavons iret, Minhie: | amiong the ug mess ct stou falllog upon Gna at the for the screw, and fourteen revolutions for the paddle | wire ropes of the standing rigging, which not only broke wheelg, there would geom to be no difficulty in her making | its fall Dut guided it down to the bulwark, in which it i 3 made a deep indentation. The only injury which any of from Bighjecm soutlneteen nots eit.bour. We auay; tien, | te tecdcers austained was in thn oabeog Mr, Raplin- conclude, without any chance.of being deceived, that the | gon, the agsistant of Mr. Gray, of Liverpool, who sup- Great Eastern is not only by far the largest, but the | plied te | ea preps ihe greore Pte eit Ne i vigati in the ower deck ealoon when the accident occurred, an swiftest, vessel ever built for ocean nay wea Tam ready “Owing to one of the doors or portion of the cabia partition to acknowledge that herepeed i quite beyond what Tan- | sa)ing obliquely over him, he was saved fram being crushed beneath the mags of fragments which were heaped above arrived Uately at Moreeilles frem @ietely for Paris and London Some of the Madrid journals publish articies on the wecessit pot taking Gbraitar from the English,2o matter wy whai «means. TRI WiTAIP GF THE GREAT EASTERN. Booount «fthe-Explosion by Our Own Correspon- dent or \Baerd the Great Eastern—Interesting Incid ent sfrom the London Journals—Canses cf t he Accident—Careleamess Charged 4, yains’ the Engineers—The Evi- « knee Taken at the Inquest, &e, &e., &e. nt, 204 left imme- tained form heaps of dislocated chairs, and ‘wash ; i : a stands, and dasius; the doors are uff “their hinges, | g,aneroanas at, om are coeed mat ec) ae ts the partitions are forced outwards, the staircases | highly heated and perilous eundition. Yeading 10 them must. be sought in the splinters |” “Most persons have left tho ship to-night (Saturday), and and broken wood which lie in heaps in the lower saloon. | she now awaits the inquest inspection and investigation” The By the ail of a ladder we succeeded in reaching the cabin | vessel is only formally banded over to Captain Harrison ich we bad occupied the previous evening, and won- | her commander, at Weymouth; and the toss by the daz dered bow, if we had not deen crushed by the concussion, mage done to the engines and’ fittings will fall upon Mr. we #hou er have been able in the darkness of the | Scott Russcll, the contractor. night to escaped from the maze of ruin which pre- isn) tin aida Seva, pec. 48 sented iteelf on every band. Descending from the sleep- ‘ti nthe sacgoaeatis ie tte pt i dia ot ing cabins once more ‘into the saloon, we picked our way ot red ay in Sa fe splen: ie 5 amid heaps of splintcred timber and over torn gaps inthe | ‘though atten the etch chommriling: Segre 1e com- flooring to a spot irom which we gould look down into the | Pany, will have the effect of affording the Public an oppor. vast hollow where the -‘collapse,”-as-it was called by. the at f map Hew fh Eneevery fap iene eyes coginoere tnd demurred. There was » deep-torniand.rag: | Siubeslern, alway 6 unuiog” ODeMD tralus daly to ged well of the fa'al jron casing, and within it were some ah pivi tee traveller oe. 7 ony of the lower portions of the funnel reposing on the ‘upper Weymouth, giving ppg ir roles returning surface of the boiler. The iron plates were rent at the | cither on a wiles Ute eas he Kee West- rivets andg torn in the centres; some were rolled Be Diy cacti patsy me preydtnairnd ito Me a po en el bats psd passengers on board the Great Eastern. The fee for in- ee ‘ Hi 1 ig 28, 6d. each. Pipes and syphon tube were bent in and upon | &Pecting the veeeel the torn masses in most fantastic forms and strange confusion. The massive two-feet ‘flange wrought- | INQUEST ON THE BODIES OF THE FIREMEN. being discovered; it is impossible to gay which of the two causes was really the occasion of the explosion; I cannot. say that the eock m question would require any one to at- tend it; it is a fixture, and was exactly like a cork screwed into a bottle. are pie Saunt in cares at the time? rr. Brereton—J cannot say that there was any engin in charge of that cock; Mr. Dixon was the cogmees who ‘was responsible for the action of the paddle engines; it was impossible for anybody to know the internal constrao- tion of the casing; it did not occur to anybody 40 ascer- tain that that cock was open before starting, 5 By Mr. Leverson—You can stop a safety yaive in 4 engine; before this was finished, somebody had clean it; if once finished and boxed up, it would have been no one’s duty to look to it; it would have been assumed that it was open. _By the Coroner—Supposing you were engaged as en- ginecr would you, before starting, think it heceaeary to examine every part of the machinery? Witness—It would not have occurred to me to look to. this; it was like locking a door, and, when once finisned, 1 should not have looked at it; it would be boxed up regu- Jarly ; noone knows why ho did it; the man had to Temove- Our “G neat Eastern” Correspondence. Port:anp, England, Sept. 10, 1859. ack * the casing to lengthen the. stan is i p the Exprin nial Drip Gf the Great Eastern—A Greas | “We have tad a jolly and rather distinguished lot of pas- | im. He wan remove from his perilous potion ina few | iron girdgre wich supported the lower deck: were n the Correspondence pf the London Chronicle, Sept.13.)° | could De closed. by the acetdents aad, intern aes " = ‘a ‘ 2 . . minutes after the occurrence of the accident by several neighborhood of the accident, curved and bent into most morning the inquest upon the bodies of the five un- | been open, it is ible th t Success and 16 malt Casually —The Heiils thet, seagers aboerd':' 'e fale eprinkiing of aptlinsn, eaveratol ECE Soe» ‘who hastened dowti to theliswer cabin to irregular forms, and the fact of thers masses of motal | fortunate stokers who'met their death by the awful explo] taken place. Possible that the accident could’ have “Accident a Prrcof of the Superior Safety of the Ship— Exciting Sc me at the Departure of de Sea Monster from ihe Themis The Population of London . Lining fu: River—€ vétical Position of the Vessel at Blackall the directors, and many distinguished members of the | see if any useisiance could be rendered to any unfortunate press. Ameng the latter are A. B. Richards, Esq., who | persons who might be in the cabins which cluster round 4 the saloon thick as the cells of the honeycomb. The only Feprencnls the Daily Advertiser; 8. Augustus Sala, Esq., of | Person found was Mr. Williamson: he was considerably the Daily Telegraph; Mr. Woods, of the Zimes; Mr. Murphy, Bevied and contused, but providentially no bones were having yielded afforded the strongest and most striking | sion which took placo on board the Great Fastorn, on evidence of the terrific force of the explosion. Descend- | Friday evening last, was opened by Mr. H. Locke, the ing still lower into the regions of the furnaces and boilers, | Coroner for the district of Wey mout anda jury geen there were other evidences of the injury which had been | of fifteen. The inquiry took place in the Town Hal ) and caused. Happily the boilers stood firm, and, so far as | it was remarkable that, notwithstanding the intense in- At the conclusion of Mr. Brereton’s evidence, the roveeded to Portiand Bay to viow the ship, which is lying: ide the breakwater, and the inquiry wi - adjourned until Saturday next, “48 afterwards THE ADJ Point—Her Grypevior Speed Placed Beyond Dispute | of the Daily News, and a number more. broken or serious injury sustained. ia he were a iol eat S) not ba rivet eae Allthe | terest des is ann a cant ere wen besides: [From the correaponstenica, Of othe aad Post. 2 “ y 6 re " CASUALTIES AND LIVES LOST. nace doors of the forward pair of boilers were open. the jury and the officers of the ship, scarcely a dozen per- Py A Roh S68, and No Metion—Account of the Be} Yesterday (Friday) was tho real anuticltria day of he | say ggQ ASARTIES AND LIVES LOST. | , Jury y re Waruovra, Sept. 14, 1869. and the Gre had been raked out, ag after the accident they | gong present as spectators. ‘were not used, and the engines were supplied from the ‘The first duty after the jury had been sworn, and a most other pair of boilers. Some shreds and torn plates of the | painful one it was, was to gee the bodies of the unforta- casing remained in the lower part, and the rough, jagged } nate victims of what the directors themselves in their re- and uneven edge shows the part at which the funnel sepa- stigmatise as gross neglect. They had been removed rated previous to its ascent through the tiers of cabins. m the vessel to the hospital-at Weymouth, and present The huge tube was again severed at the flanges over the | all that horrifying vance which has been so power- saloon, and the two portions lie like colorsal fallen columng | fully described by the various morning journals in their above deck. yesterday’s impression. This harrowing task performed, PACTS PROVED BY THE ACCIDENT. ‘the examination of the witnesses commenced. There is one point in connection with the accident which ‘The first.called was James Briscoe, the junior engineer makes the recent journey a most severe trial trip. Not- | of the paddle engine department, who deposed as follows: withstanding an explosion which would have shattered to | It is my duty to attend to the directions of the engineer atoms apy other ship in the world, and destroyed the | in charge of the paddle engines on duty, and to render largest man-of-war afloat, the great ship kept on her | any assistance I could; Ihave been told not to meddle course as though nothing had occurred. Persons seated | with or make myself responsible for any of the cocks or in the next compartment of the ship, and within a few | valves; the duty assigned to me on the morning of the yards of the ecene of the accident, fet no concussion at | explosion was to. attend to the boilers and keep a proper the moment of the disruption. The loud report was | supply of water in them; the donkey engine which heard, of course, and the shower of blocks of wood and | pumped the water into the boiler was out of order, and plovion ty an Bye Wilness—Its Causes, tc., de. ‘A success cat ‘De opmplete in eny venture, and yet warred by acas malty that may,make the whole appear to the outward g¢ aze of te world ike a failure. Such may be the po: tun of the Great Eastern steamship. J could not feel it gy.duty,.as your correspondent, to do Jes than to go, ¢ Tat least attempt, the voyage of the great ship from Is tadar to this place, and Ibave done “. Of course you \witi hear, by telegraph and rumor, very much about +the accident that has occurred, end very little off fue eplendid snecess ef the twamer’s trip. And?.# splendid success it bas doen. The very accident’ iteolf—virwally the exphneion of a bdojler, thongh not the boiler proper—shows cagnaities the iren monster 18 capable 0 Great Eastern. We had, fortunately, some rough weather, | in the stokeboies end tending the furnaces suffered though not enough to test fairly her sea-going or rather | severely. e poor fellow, it is pale by some per- ities. drizzt bh sons, was cither severely burned or scalded, and threw floating qualities one ely cea Bete er. in thet Riser overboard ut. of & port Hole, fr ‘a tan, Wwa moraing was succee' y & rough blow that soon | seen swimming for a few secouds before the paddles, amounted to agale. Everything far and near in the | and murt have ee hed a torn to death in the huge wheel. Another account of the mode shape of a vessel went bobbing up and down on waves z poor, man came ¢o his death was that that ran ten or twelve feet above the trough of the sea. | he was standing with two other men throwing cinders Could aman at that moment have stood on a rock, an | into the + from the coalbole, when the force of the island or a lighthouse pear the great ship, and sighted | 00! To-day at two o'clock the urned inqui cause of this melancholy disaste vag resumed: fore ue Henry Locke, the Coroner for Dorset, at the ‘Town Hall, ‘Weymouth. The eoeetresca appeared to excite no great amount of interest, and the Court was almost empty’ throughout the entire proceedings. Mr. ae hiya in compliance with a wish ex- pressed by the Coroner, came down fi 1 y Thinnest : 7 rom town to attend’ ir. John Dickson, foreman to Mr. Russell, i ‘whose superintendence the machinery of the veatines. gines was fitted, was also prescut, and Mr. McLilan, the Chief Engineer of the Great Eastern. The attendance of Captain Harrison, who, of course, has important duties to- perform on board the ship, was dispensed with by the- M Ni if Freshfiel Ne ir. Newman (of Freshfields & Newman) attended t watch the case mith Mr. Scott Russell. At the commence. ment of the proceedings Mr. Leverson, the eolicitor to the company, said he wished to correct an error which had. ussion was sucb as to throw him over the ship’s side. His two companions were saved by the merest hair- across her deck to another fixed object, he would not | breadth escape, one of the men clinging to the other, and have diccovered a rise or fall of eighteen inches bow falling in the géngway’ a short distanee from the 0) Ct thip’s side. ie hands were suppose ave been scald- ot the bow or stern. Jn fact, we could: | O41 Gr injured, and-hisendeavors 10 acige Or ley bold on by secarcely perceive without looking overboard that | 9 part of the sponsail or come other object proved in vain, there was any swell on the sea. She literally cat | and he fell, The stoker, we are told, is known by the the waves down so deep, and ‘Haid ber huge length along,’? ane of ‘Teddy.’ He was one of Scott Russell's oldest what “4 a nds. The ebip was yoing twelve knots at the least at | broken glagsp afforded decisive evidence that there was | did not perform ite duty satisfactorily, and I stood one od cl ecicting, Wamay De aak! without fear of contradiction } io Mikon’e Beclbub in the dark regious below, eo that | the time, und ibere was a heavy swell on the water, and | something wreng. But there wero no other means of | of tho donkey engines iu No. 1 stoxe hale all day terkerg | $i peared, m Some ot Whe ps Mbe-iyeviou ian ee if Britannia does not “rule the waves,” the Great Eustern | all attempts to save the man by lowering the boats were i ‘ eis fruitless. A number of life buoys and hatches were docs; and ehe rules them straight, and cuts them through | {yown over, but. tone of them could have reached tne to the bottom. What the pitch or roll may be when she | drowning man. Believing that one of the boilers had ex- comes to rus quartering over waves twenty-five feet in | ploded, fears were entertained that the whole body of ” zs stokers and engineers attending the paddle engines were ‘heighth, remains to be seen. Icannot think that she will | \iyoq. Gne passenger went down the air shaft communi. retain that rolid, steady, sober equilibrium she exbibited | cating with the other boilers, and seeing by the light of yosterday, but that he will play the drunken man, and | the (eS a r ses moving Var) bs blind : if they were all right, and the response sent up from these grow tipsy to much of an extent Tehould doubt. Ithink | jowrat depths of the ship were, «Allright at present, but there will be 2 little ro!!, but nothing like what is expe- | we don’t know how long.”’ They were told to keep quiet, rienced 00 the Vanderbilt or Persia, or other steamers of | and stay where they were; that toy would be of no ser- vice on deck, and all would be well in a few minutes, Joss ponderous size. ‘The gallant fellows remained by their fiery furnaces with we noom the weather cleared off pleasant as we came | resolute good will. In the cage of the firemen tending t Atte ing the song towards Hastings and Brighton, come cightor nine | ther eet of boilers a very different seene wis taki if ae « were thrown down, and one by one, wounded, miles from the coast. At about tive o'clock the passen- | dieeding, and euggering men wer brought up by their that the success of the wassel, the eafety and comfort o pacsengere, and the ris of a voyage onboard, cannot.be Sanporijied er increased im consequence of this late unfor tunave occurrence. Theacaident, or.oneof its kind, will ever in all soman probability occur again on board this ship. om the utterly foolish mode of construction of the cincke pips and its sitenoondings, it may be eaid that ‘fan acevdent at seme tame was certain to oceur, That it did occur when there were #0 passengers within reach, or no persons saperilled, except a lasited number of tire- men, anny nailored as psovidentiel. Fancy a huge cannon, or a tuvulac steam betler, standing upright and running irom the bottom of a monster vessel directly through the centre of two Jarge ezbins on two knowing that an explosion bad occurred. Some gentle. Raat work; that was on the starboard side of the men remaining in the dining saloon after the majority ;the donkey engine on the port side of the ship in of the company had gone om deck, were about to drink | the forward stoke hole had broken down; about a mi- the health of one of the directors at the mo- | nute before the explosion Mr. M’Lennan, ‘the chief en- ment of the explosion; the glasses were filled | gineer of the ship, came down and looked at the satura- on the table, but there was not so much vibra. | tion of the water in the boiler, and said, on leaving, that tion sufficient to spill over any of the contents, and so | everything seamed right. He again cautioned me not to secure did the little party feel, that, with gcarcely an ex meddle with any of the cocks or valves unless 1 was told ception, each one stayed deliberately to finish the toast | +o do go by the engineer in charge of the paddle engine before going on deck to agcertain the cause of the confu- | department; Mr. McLennan left the place, and I resumed sion overhead. ven at the time when the ery of fire |-my position by the donkey engine; shortly atterwards ‘was raged, it was generally felt that however much it might | the explogion took place, and it filled the e hole with rage, it would be strictly confined to the compartment in | hot air and steam; 1 came up the stoke hol ladder, and h it commenced, and the hose might deluge the | on reaching the lower deck heard the stokers calling out place with water, or even fill # up to the water line, with. for ey eel three of them had reached the lower deck out imperilling the safety of the noble vessel. Tt is a | and 1 the way from thence to the lower saloon, and thing Wholly unprecedented that an explosion of such a | obtained assistance to get the men on deok; afterwards nature bas occurred without destroying or utterly disa- | J went below to have my wounds dressed; I noticed bling the?ship. The value of the principle of naval con- | while on the lower deck that the immediate and outer Scott Russell had bad ample notice to attend the opening: of the inquest but had not done 80. In fact, what ho had Stated was eyactly the reverse—namely, that Mr. Scott Russell had Hud no notice of the inquiry; that he was as the time in Lotion, on the company’s business, and could not pocsibly. have been in attendance, After a few words from Mr. Scott Russell, who ex- plained the cause of his unavoidable absonco, ‘The Coroner said that, on the opening of the inquest, bo: had nt once considered that it was a case which ought te be adjourned, in order that the jury might have the aesiet. ance of some of the Surveyors from the Board of ‘Trade: He had accordingly communicated with the Board of Trade, and Feeeived a letter in reply the previous day which stated that it was impossible that Captain Robert- gon, the Surveyor General, could attend the inquiry before. Saturday next. He, therefore, thought that, under those. umetineés, it would be most advisable that. the Jury should have the benefit . Lose aifierent deckr, and that boiler or that gun bursting | gers and guests assembled around the well arranged din | gallant messmnates who had yone down to assist them, | struction by compartments has been tested certainly with | easingof the funnels had been burst asunder, and that | offers, nad. wu thelr permission OTe would na throngh 44 whole length. Imagine sack a torritic | por tables, in a large cabin back of the main valoon. In- | Wher Pinck Wokrimud laces forming a ghactly contrast | a severity which no one desired or expected, but, at | the whole of the cabins in the lower saloon werd destroyed | further proceedings till Saturday morhing aunine ote ; : 4 4 - Dp Sha Bed the thégeit, haat alive with the scalded portions and hanging pieces of the limbs | all events, with satisfactory results so far’ as the by the bursting of the water heated round the forward He (the Coroner) trusted that both the cor 4 explosion a8 would have parted the sides and gent to the | toad of tarry.ing at table ove erly Bearly all weal | snd bodies of the poor snflorers, The men were taken aft | ship i concerned. In every respect, save the | funn Scott Russell would be ready on th 1 Oppabien rit he fottom in inpumerabie fragments an Adriatic, a Vander- | yron deck before six o'clock. While everything xeemed | to the hospital wr 2 in blankets, and to cabin, where | melancholy one to which we have alluded, this first trip Cross-examined by Mr, Leverson.—I remembored Mr nee Which could ‘row. the, smallest Tigh ton ‘the iit or a Pere, and this ccourring at a Ume when both | to promige the moot Prosperous termination 10 our ausp\- | Matt 7@ and covering were provided for them. Twelve | of the great +hip has been eminently satisfactory. Of | McLennan calling the engineer wud stokers together on which had led to'so disastrous an nociient en ee meounding berthe were fall of passengers. the after part of the doa | monn all were ho up from the seething stokeholes. | her speed there can be no doubt when her engines work | Tuesday last; Mr. McLennan told me not to » with One of the jnry said that they hoped every eff cabins of sursounding ill of parzengers, | age, those of us om the after part o le | One of the nen died a tow hours after, and the second at | easily, end at modorate pressiire, and. that she ig an vay | the enje but to obey the rds be made to discover the man who had urucdl olf the cee what a scene wo,Ud have that presented. Such a ecene did startled by an explosion, not loud or apparently | nine o'clock on Setarday morning. Nine men lay on Sa- | going ahip ie clear from the simple Nee will be | gineer inc the paddle department; the engines | or_valve which led from the eran om rata hee ercur yesterday on #he rest Bastern—oot with the ab | pene, but hike a gun a tie way offat son, Thenewt inetant | MMay ina moe dangorons Fmt. of whom five at wast, | appreciated by every one who has crossed the Strais or | were it MF. Seott Russel's bande, and he had supplid | "ap Sevtt Keeani Pe Int the stokehoi, enh casey owwhile rouniog ple near, bu a gun a litierway ie dati and rexnected to follow ina few bowrs the fate of their un- | the Irith chagnel) that there was not a person on hoard | the ebyineers to work. th Mr. Dickson, Mr. | that the cock of the valve was open on Tueadae, ve enees sence of the guesis—-while running an cragh fell the ¢ pipe across the deck, ard a | fortunate coll who'soff n the leaet from that most disagreeable of | Ruieell» forcman, assumed the control of ‘tho py the vorsel left the river on Wednesday howdy a south coast of England, @ few » om F iS: earn Wt Sone ee slasd apd robbie mur nd 10% complaints to wit : a Bi - The directors on board | whee! departinent, by oxple Jon was confined to the | Mr. Teverdon intimated that the company were in no