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Show and throwing others into the sea Lurk-ill- the masts held and remained some yards above the water as the vessel touched h'jttom. Fun: loity to fifty persons per-sons were rescued from the masts. Among i'ie acts cf v.tloi at the liight of the g:ile was that of a British middy, who put afl'alone on a dingy for the purpose of rendering assistance to persons cling- i ing to the wreckage. Another hero was ! a ssaurni on the iron-clad Rodney, who plunged boldly into the sea, and after a desperate struggle, succeeded in saving cue of the women ft ating in the water. Divers who went down to-day report there are hundreds of bodies in the steerape and between the decks. Many bodies came asho:e to-day. 1 . , t Over 5 co Perished In the Dixmied Ship Utvpia Which was Kim Into by tlm HrSiisUWar ship, Anson, Near Gibraltar. Frightful Scenes at i he "Wreck Etc. Gibrallar.March T.S. Another account of the disaster attributes it to Die fact 1hat the British warship Anson, was drifting before a gale and lamrael the Utopia abaft the funnel. The Utopia was impaled on the spur of the Anson's tarn and almost immediately sank. Everything Every-thing possible was done by the ofiieers and seamen. Four seamen were washed wash-ed overboard and drowned from one of the warship's steam launches while taking tak-ing part in the rescue. The scenes after the collision were i'rightf.tl. On one side was the sinking steamship crowded with 700 immigrants shreauing with terror. ! Right and left the sinking vessel were the monster battle slrps Rodney : nd Anson pouring the light of their powerful power-ful electric retlectors upon the disabled steamship. Mete and there were the warships small boals manned by blue jjacke's who strained every nerve as they bent to the oars in the heavy sea, striving gallantly to reach the drowning passengers. They rescued passengers, estimated to number about two hundred possibly more, were cated for on the warships, are t ken ashoie and housed in government Imild'ngs. At this hour 3:30 p m the number of persons saved is sa'd to be 331, and the loss ot life about 4.00, possibly less. Already Al-ready thirty-two bodies have Dcen recovered. re-covered. Divers from the warships are at work ah ve the spot where the Utopia sank, seeking to recover dead bodies. The diver's and boat's cr w have been at work all day. Efforts are being made by the British naval authorities to recover recov-er as many as possible of the bodies t f the passengeis and crew of the sunken steamer Utopia, They have at this hour recovered ninety bodies. Among those s-wed from the sinking vessels the bv boats of the men of war were twenty of the Utopia's crew. C M Davis, of Boston a saloon passenger, is among the Tiiissiug. The officers and crew of her majesty's ship Anson staled that the Utopia fouled with the ram of the Anson and thus caused the damage which resulted re-sulted in tbe passenger steamer sinking. The Anson officers assert no blame can Reattached to the war vessels. Peterson, the Swedish quartermaster who had been steering tiie Utopia a short time before the collision, said just before the vessels came together he went below. While there he felt the shock of the collision and rushed from below. Just b f re he reached the main deck, the Utopia had gone broadsides upon the spar of the Anson's ram. The .commander of the Utopia Captian Mc Keague, according to Peterson, was on the steamship's bridge until the last moment. Peterson adds that as the Utopia was ciushed bv t.ie Anson's ram, he clambered up the davitts of one of the steamship's boats and cut the ropes holding it. lie had no time, however, to lower the boats away, as the bows of the Utopia had passed beneath th warship, war-ship, and it was evident the passenger steamer was rapidly sinking. Soon after the boats of the An?on having been promptly lowered one of the man of-wan cuttlers ran alongside the Utopia, and Peterson managed to jump into her. He says while on board the Utopia, after the collision, he was surrounded by e terrible mass of human beings fighting fight-ing their way desperately and savagely, regardless of sex or age, towards the .boats. Men, women and children tumbled tum-bled and clin bed over each other in that horrible right for life for chance of escape from drowning. One po-r woman who was rescued by the Anson's bluejackets went raving mad when she was convinced her children were dtown ed There were similar distressing incidents in-cidents by the scoie, the most awful of all occuring when tne Utopia, with a final desperate lurch, sank with her human hu-man freight clinging about her, and drew hundreds ot living persons down with her. Many of those who sprang into in-to the s-?a as they saw the steamship could not float many moments 'longer, were then also drawn down in the awful whirlpool caused bv the Utopia's disa-pearance. disa-pearance. Some came to the surface again for a few moments before sinking in their watery lontbs;others, more lucky were able to cling to pieces of wreckage, floating spats, oms, gratings, hatchways and this kept theai above w iter until rescued res-cued bv the warships boats. But, as usual in such cases, the weaker succmb-ed succmb-ed more readily, Shreaking, praying women sank to lise no more with their terrilieJ offspring clasped in their breast Children clung to their parents so desperately des-perately as to in several cases c.iuse djath to both where they might have escaped had better judgment been used. At 8.30 p m it was announced thcoffi-cial thcoffi-cial teport ot tlve number af peisons on board the Utopia stows (not when she Jeft Naples the steamship had 880 souls on board, including passengerg and , crew. Of this number only 311 have been saved. Thus, 569 of the passenger and crew are either drowned ormissiug. Oliicers of the Utopia in ifalking about the catastrophe, say I hey will never foi-get foi-get the scene that followed the collision. The Italians were thrown in'o a state of tomolete and cowardly panic They yed- ed frantically and taught madly to reach the forecastle. A few of the married men brought their wives with them, but the majority of the Italians acted more like beasis than men. The forecastle and resins: wer-j soon crowded and the vessel began to settle dow n. Presently an explosion with deafening report oc-pujred oc-pujred in the forecastle, killing many |