STATISTICS OF THE PRINCESS ALICE COLLISION.

Kumara Times, Issue 670, 20 November 1878, Page 2

STATISTICS OF THE PRINCESS ALICE COLLISION.

The. Times says Wednesday night only 14 bodies re* mained in Woolwich "Dockyard, four" of them unidentified, and the - other ted identified by their friends. Nine mow were to arrive later in the evenings but the task of removal will now be shortly accomplished, and after Satur'-' clay at the lat'st the Dockyard will return to its former uses. Bodies after* wards recovered will be taken td the town, tfp to 6 p.m., on "Wednesday night 582 bodies had been recovered; The nine more then expected at the Dockyard bring the total number of those found up to 591< A-li&t of per-< sons saved was handed in on Wednes* day to the coroner* by Mr Hughes, whd is solicitor to the proceedings at the in* quest, while Messrs Newman, Stretton, • nd Hillkrd, the. Company's I/Vndori solicitors, conduct the proceedings in 4 the Admiralty Division. The list is* Mug added to by a few names after" the coroner arose, ft gives 153 as the number of those saved. The list is ap-< parently nut compiled with perfect ac* curacy. S«»me names appear in it which have no right there, and at least one is oinmitted, but as an lion to the truth the list deserves some attention. Ai> addition of the number of those found in the river to the number of those thus' reported to be saved gives about 750 as the minimum number of the passengers on board. Of the 10? bodies buried as unidentified (some r& cognised later being deducted), 63 were" women, 26 men, and 26 children. Si* of the latter were infanta Of the other' deceased, 439 have been classified. Of these, 192 1 were women, 147 men, and 100 children. Taking all the classified! together, we have 155 women, 1731 men, and 126 children ; making a total of 454. As the bodies recovered artf 482 or 491 in number* theref are, it will be seen, 30 or 40 unclassified, owing td the clerical errors in make up the classified lists. An imperfect statement is the best which is at present available. Its record is sufficiently sad. No fewer* than 126 little children, many of whom* went ou the water by no choice of their* own, perished, in addition to about 200 women- and 150 men.