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part of the ship, as may well be imagined, is completely de- 
molished. Indeed the ship remains as complete a wreck as 
probably was ever beheld. The timbers throughout appear 
to have been perfectly rotten. Many of the guns were thrown 
overboard, and some of them (of large dimensions) hung as it 
were by a hair. 
The bodies of the dead and wounded were brought on shore 
as soon as circumstances would permit. The former, after 
being recognized, were put into coffins. The latter were car- 
ried to the hospital of the Navy Yard, and every attention paid 
to them. The bodies of the dead were shockingly mangled ; 
their features distorted, and so much blackened that it was diffi- 
cult to recognize them. All the physicians of Brooklyn, and 
several from the city, proffered their services, which proved 
very acceptable. 
As soon as the intelligence reached the city, thousands of 
persons visited the wreck of the Fulton. The steam-boats, 
on their passage up the river, stopped to learn the particulars, 
and hundreds of small boats proceeded to the spot. The Navy 
Yard was also filled with persons making inquiries after their 
relations or friends, and expressing much anxiety to see the bo- 
dies, for the purpose of ascertaining whether they were among 
the dead or wounded. 
Commodore Chauncey and the officers of the station were 
on board the wreck after the explosion, giving directions to 
remove the scattered timber, in order that a search might take 
place for such bodies as might be buried in the ruins. 
The tide being at the ebb, immense quantities of the frag- 
ments of the ship floated down in front of the city, and hun- 
dreds of small boats were seen busily engaged in securing 
them. 
Since the foregoing was prepared, we have had a call from 
an officer who left the hulk since ten o'clock. The tide had 
come in, so that she was filled with water. 
We are pained to learn that Mrs. Breckenridge is not 
slightly, but very severely wounded : and the injury of Lieut. 
Piatt is so serious, that but a faint hope is indulged of his re- 
covery. 
What is a very remarkable circumstance, although several 
of the persons at dinner in the ward-room escaped with their 
lives, and some of them uninjured, not a vestige of the table, 
chairs, or any of the furniture in the room, remains. Every 
thing was blown to atoms. 
