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Loss on rnE STEAMER ATLANTIC
Together wih some Forty Lires.-'ihis
magnificent steamboat, plying between
Boston aud New YORK, was wrecked On
Fishers Island, l.. |. sounl, on the aBlh
Ut. She was the largest and mosi mas
niiioent boat perhaps in the world. and
cost, with her furniture near slTB,OOO,
fully fur times the cost Of our lir,l class
Of western steamers; was commanded by
Capt. Dusian, and contained In passengers,
officers and crew. seventy persons.


She len Allyn's Point lor New York a,
half past II Z. NJ. 25lh. aud was pro
eeeding finely, when hef steam ches, es.
ploded, at which unfortunate moment n
hurricane broke forlh from the northwest.
Three hours were occupied in casing the
anchors, 50 furious was the gale, the seas
preaching heavily over her bows, render.
ing il impossible for the sailors 10 stand
upon them, the tempest raging with in.
creased fury, aud the cold intense; iuriy
tons oi coal aud her ponderons smoke pipes
were cast overheard, TO tighten her, and

alter drifting and dragging her ihre,
anchors twenty-five miles, which occupied
about foHy.eighl hours. Of terrible uncer.
ialnly and suffering she struck. slern first.
on a ledge Of rocks on Fishers Island
A tremendous sea threw her up on the very
top Of the ledge; 50 far, indeed. as almost
10 throw her oNe. on the other side. Thi.
was the crisis in tho disaster. II was
terrible, aud hean.rending in the extreme.
In five minute. alter she struck, she wa
in pieces.


Every person was compelled 10 Inmi
over. board. The boat alter she slrucl
keelcd SO much, that the distance from the
boat TO ,he water was about Is leet.-
Many were swept among the rocks an'
saved, while others were carried under lh'
vessel by the waves aud drowned.


4 iuli lis, Of those who perished had no
been obtaincd.-Nsm. Eagle.