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Show (By W. U. Tolorraph.) THE ATLANTIC HORROR . Now York, 8. A newspaper correspondent corres-pondent who went down in tho wreok of the Atlantic yesterday 6ays: The hull of tho vessel is broken in several places and that tho cargo had broken buik with b' dies of men and women jammed among tho boxes and crates. Limbs aro Btrewn around, broken from the bodies by tho continual action of the water?. At tho companion way of the steerago were a hundred or more bodies lying in confused neaps, some dressed but many half nude. Children were clinging to their mothers and husbands clasping their wivee. At the companion way of the steerage male passengers the bodies of men, old and young, were together on (he stairs with distended nostrils, gasping mouths, and staring glassy eyes, giving giv-ing some idea of their horrible death whilo struggling to gain the deck. In the sleeping apartments were hundreds hun-dreds of bodies of men with bed clothing cloth-ing strewn amoof? them. Broken stanchions and the jagged and splintered wood-work had torn the flesh from . the faces of many and others were j biuised and battered about their heads which wero red and bloody,cootrasting horribly with the features of the other;. |