The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-10-12 00:00:00

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THE BURNING OF THE AU'
STEAMER.
iFrOM the Neu Yorls Herald, of Sep mber S.)
The news which we received yesterd from Rallies
by telegraph has put an frnd to all f 'her oonthetere
in regard to the name of the missing s ow. The liv-
ing witneues of the dleuitor, thaw o escaped (rein
the burning ship, and who are n. at Halite:, left
Hamburg on board the Hamburg C. peny's steamship
Austria, on the 4th of September this port The
mystery which surrounded the ill. WI ship Ithe at last
been cleared up, and the anxious f re end suspense of
friends have given plea to aWU ore terrible feeling
of uccortairity as to the fate of th ethent ones. When
the first report reached us it w lot supposed that the
burning steamer WM the Ault , as the description
given by the captain of the bark reblan, by whom the
week wig seen in lat. 4513, 1. . 4148, did not apply
to her 1 but more detailed and 7 eorinunts Pointod to
this vestal with more force ti ever as the ship whisk
had been seen on Are. The gure-head was the ilm.:l
and in other particulars the mblenee waa BO pef
that there eould no longer . any just pounds fer fur-
ther doubt, Whatever do there might be is to its
kiting the Austria were e . irely removed by the pain.
fully thourithe despetob oth rthohed us yesterday
afternoon trout Rallies.
The Austria left Haub. with the following number
If passenger' and crew i
In the bit 'cabin , persons, of whom 0 were
ithildren.
In the woad cabin— 1 POMO; of whom Melt were
children,
In the stherage—' . pawns, of whom lba were
thildren.
Raking a total of 018 adults and AT abildren, or 495
persons,
The mow, includi the captain and Obeli_ ,_ num-
stobit
011".. board,lell lOB
tret 114 !on 0i1411.0
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1.'401464. as te have already stated, newt arrived
which put an n 4 to ell conjecture by announcing that
the loot steamer one no other than the Mottle, Th•
French lark M 4 Ice had, it appear', fallen In with the
burning owed the 13th hist., in let. 45111, long,
4110, and mu ed in saving GT pimentos, 11 of
these were tretgi.rr,d on the following ivy to the bark
Lulus, which ejrived at Hellion on Moldy afternoon,
Mr, oweeNeitidia'e NTATIIIIIINT.
The follow is the statement of Theodore O. Ohm.
benelihmi—
At aboot a WWI' put I p.m., 'entombs? IS, being in
my Mate rot t, 1 heertl the cry of "Sr.." Huten-lng
en deck,w the atom breaking out through the
middle du The uptain waa trying to get the people
Out lit Ike 'wound boat on the pore MN, to km it
lowered, /I haaMned to the for' dull be keep the
people frii the boat, After a few minutes I turned
retool tot, the quarter-deck could not get through
Ilie are, remaiiied On MIS tle, the snip all mg
Mine *award against, nd,
Is
Wthit thi.esielientantrieetihtiteifulaiteattlerotorpeolitinidutitsudosoniwnndiatoothre
klitlibliairominthi,b,leti
Are, Or
ImPrlrMited our intention, mil merely threw them into
the *ter. I tried to Mumma tomethlng with witch to
to
mu he paesengen, but nothing was be found. The
cr
hod been thrown overboard, and the bucket.,
near the pipe, were all on fire, In about half an
hof the foreniut fell, and shortly att., the mambas
an about the IMMO time the engine app arod to stop.
The ship, which the far had been 'heading out,
gradully turned to the north, and finally to the north
east. Boon aher the boiler seemed to eollopee, and 10
minutes after the myosin, imploded, By the burning
If the ship the flames and snioke drove to the tommatie.
The suahring then Mumma intent",
Our only hope now being in two vessels In the
distance—one of which, ofterwards proved to be the
Maurice, approthlisd to. slowly 1 the other, further off,
"leering WOO, 400 k 110 1101104 Of as although she was
signalled to do so by the captain of the MauHee.
Having taken my stand or the *bathe on the liar-
forward to make room
for others, At about II o'glook the Mourn* Dent off a
boat, and as won as it eainls situ I jumped Into the
water and reached it, Seven others were taken in, and
the boat returnsolito the bark, Two boats belonging to
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some Swedith sailors came in part of a boat, and Mr.
Ti. Are is have arisen from very culpable
- of the crew. The captain indent.
espedient to fumigate the steerage
The operation WU to be performed
under the superintendent's of the
boatewein heated the and of a chain
dune smoke. The end became too
let it drop upon the deck, to which
-'..et, and htimedleteb. ell about
' was made to satin - 'lo'
was nothing at
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