The remainder, it is believed, were drowned in their cabins. A HEROIC EFFORT. Captain Hamilton made a heroic effort to save his wife, and when they were carried overboard, succeeded in supporting her for some time, but his strength failing, she (vaa torn from his grasp. He then lost con sciousness altogether, and ib was in a terribly bruised and exhausted condition that he was some time afterwards cast up on the beach. Lieutenant Rooke had a similarly miraculous escape. Li«£e Captain Hamilton, and, indeed, all of the handful of survivors, he was badly cut and bruised by being dashed against tbe rocks, and his leg was so much hurt that he was hardly abla to walk. It was hi waggons drawn by oxen that the saved were conveyed over part of the rough roftd that lies between Peniehe and the spot on the coast where tho wreck occurrod, these I vehicles having been sent oub to meet the party of rescuers who had tfone on in advance. On arriving at Penicbe, Captain Hamilton and Lieutenant Rooke were takea to a botel. STATEMENTS BY SURVIVORS. Statements have been made by the sur vivors of tho crew of the Roumania, but they are not of a character to throw light on the cause of the disaster. Reuters special correspondent at Peniehe ba3 had a conversation with one of-the Lascars, who are at the Civil Hospital. The man etated that before the vessel actually stranded on Thursday'night she more than once grated on the rocks, "and had began'to leal; '■ Oh' 6 of the ship's officers, be declares,1 was con spicuous by his coolness amid all the confu sion and excitement that occurred when it } was found thac the vessel had struck fast upon tbe reef. He want) about among the j pasaengere, exhorting them not to give way to a panic, and assuring them that if they would only remain calm they yet might be safely landed. No heed was paid to those admonitions, and the panic, both among tho crew and among the passengers became uncontrollable. The Laecar further asserted that the captain of the vessel, who was at his po3t on the bridge, perceiving that the ship was lost and the boatß ewamped, and abandoning all hopes of saving the lives of those on board, threw kimself into the Boa and was instantly lost to view. 