The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-02-18 00:00:00

W ECYMOUTH.

WiTI(0011118 A W 117113102 PLACIL—WO IWO grati-
fied to and by the Regtatrar-Gener•ra report for 1872
on the mortality of the principal English watering
plattea, that Weymouth stands very high oft the Ihrt,
the mortality here having been only 16.5 against 19.7
it Scarborough. 199 at Illariste, 17.7 at Flutings and
S. Leonard., 20 9 at Brishton, 17.2 at Torquay. 18.9
at Weston-super.ltare, 196 at Tenby. and so on.
. . . .

Simon Ditowszil—The brirstiao Sarah, Capt.
Norris, of Weymouth, had her full share of the heavy
weather in her return from the North with coal. On
tho Bth about a (porter to throe in the afternoon. she
wee off Aldborouch, when the sea was very heavy. A
wave terrific among the rest dashed our her, breaking
the gripes, carrying the boat to starboard and throwing
overboard a enemata who we. in the boat on the hatches
at the time. The boat being full of water, and the see
running very hish, no assietanee could be rendered and
the poor fellow we. lost. His name was Absalom
Pavey, an ordinary seaman of Weymouth. hand he was
engaged In clearing the boat of water whoa the wave
broke over him. He was unmarried, At the same
time is he WM lost the sea smashed the ralL bulwarks,
do., doing damage to the amount of about ZIO.
TOTAL lIIININWIMON AND LOOM Of TIMMS HANDS.—
Oa Tuesday morning last the steamship Charles
Howard brought into Weymouth Roads and landed
part of a shipwreck mow. They had belonged to the
steamship Tc. Haman, of Liverpool, • fine vowel of MO
tons reg4ter, homeward bound front the Brazils t,
Hamburg with 9,000 bags of entree and several
hundred bales of tobacco. She belonged to the
Liverpool, Brasil, and River Plate Steam Company. On
, her homeward puesge, she encountered the ter.ifio
gale from the N. W., in the Bay of Blowsy. Thera wan
a very heavy sea on at the time, and the waves
frequently rolled over her. Whether the ship was
strained and sprang • leak, or whether it was on
account of so much water being washed aboard, or
probably from both these Came, attain it Is that it
gradually gained on the fire,. For 12 hours the Teasel
was kept going under moue mile, her engines being
of little nee, and almost as long as that there had
been 12 ft. of water in tile engine room, a quantity
increasing every hour. The men were still kept at
work pumping, and were at lost utterly wore out,
hula( kept the pumps going 21 hours. At length the
hope of all was gone, the ship could not be eared, for
the remorseless water orept higher end higher, in
spite of the men's desperate effort., and soon the fires
hissed then:tubes out, as tin water flooded the
Furnaces. It WU • nil time on board the ship, every-
thing loose was woubing shout, and the water
on her mato deck was level such that outside. About
3 o'clock in the aftordoon of the 21st, the Tassel begeo
to tents down. Proeisions and instruments weoe put
into the lifeboats, and they were lowered, but the
terrifio see dashed no of them away, davits snd
and she wee canted for away and it fa supposed
swamped. The next lifeboat was dashed about by the
sea till she was stove, and weLt down. With
great difficulty the gig was hunched. and into
her got the first mate sad five men, and the sound
mate, throwing all all hi. clothes but his drawenr,
sprang from the sinking shin, swqra to the and
was hauled in, jut alive Toe °total's and seven moo
managed to get the other boat afloat, and push her
slur from being swamped or stove against the cites of
the steamer, which the sorry waved now seemed to
roar 'against more fiercely than ever. There ma not
boat suommodation for the whole of the cowpony in
°outgoes." of the smashing up of the lifeboats, and 12
poor souls, including IL chief and mood engineers,
three stewards, two cooks, • storekeeper, • firemen,
end a sailor, were on board the ill-fated Talisman,
when she gave her death-plunge, and went down like •
stone. All these twelve wore loss, for the desdlysook
would have swamped any that Teetered near to retone
them. The boat, were in not much bettor plight,
tome, like cockle shells on the waves. end the gig only
Provided with a beg of biscuits and • keg of water, and
the other very little better provided. The compasses
were washed away when the lifeboats were smashed.
and thus the two boot.' °rem were mire than 100
miles from lend, without any means of guiding their
souse. The angry us threatened to amilow them up
each minute, as they did "mount up to the heavens,
they go down again to the depths ;" but it is wonder-
ful how • little boot will live in s stone, if kept before
the sea and the wind. This the mews measured to do,
though both wind and etsa were awful, and they had
hopes of riding through the eight, and being picked
up in the morning. Bat the many of God was greater
to them than they imputed. About five o'clook, as it
was beginning to get dusk, they saw a eobooe,r to lee-
ward. The beau' °emu was altered 00 as
to heed her, and the second mate, Thomas P. Sher-
lock, took off his drawers, and hold thug up on a boat
hook. As they rtes on • groat wave, the aukeeoer's
people spied the Niguel. MIMI up to the beets, and took
the poor pedals( men as beard. Bbe peered to be