The Wreck of the "Royal Charter" Compiled from Authentic Sources, with Some Original Matter

'Mr. Mellor.--I should be happy, not as a matter of business, but as one of friendship, to put any question for a relative of any one who has been lost (applause).

'These principles are no doubt in operation in every tolerable mode of marine architecture, but not to the degree of perfection in which the tendency to assume horizontality of...

'About two o'clock on Wednesday morning the vessel struck. A great number of passengers were then in their berths; but they suddenly rushed upon deck, many of them but partially...

'Mr. James Russell, who said his father lived in Linlithgowshire, and who was one of the passengers who escaped, recognized John Smith, son of Edmund Smith, Mrs. Woodroff (compa...

'On entering the saloon, Mr. Allen, the head steward of the second cabin, came and told the passengers they had better not go on deck, as it might cause confusion. The order was...

'One of those awful calamities which carry mourning and desolation to hundreds of hearths, hearts, and homes--which send a pang not only through the bosoms of bereaved relatives...

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'This greatest and most terrible of the results of the late hurricane--for it cannot be otherwise described--will argue strongly either on behalf of those who demand ports of de...

'All the above have been interred. In cases where the relatives or friends do not bury, the bodies are interred in trenches. Parish coffins are provided for them, and the Rev. M...