The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-10-27 00:00:00

TERRIBLE DISASTER AT SEA, AND
LOSS OF 250 LIVES.

The steamship Evening Star, v.hich left New York
on the 29th September for New Orleans, has foundered
at aea. The Savannah News of the 9th instant gives
the following details of this dreadful diameter :

The Kerning Star on the 2nd encountered severe gale,
which commenced in the afternoon, when she was ISO miss
east of TO. Island. After weathering the storm some
seventeen hours, she foundered at six a.m., on the 3rd, with
two hundred and seventy souls on board. (fitly seventeen
persons are known to have been saved. It seems there were .
only three or four lifeboats on board, In one of which the ;
chief engineer, purser, six of the crew, and two paseengers
succeeded, after caplizbg several times, in keeping afloat
until picked up by the Norwegian barque Flertugaj, from
which they were transferred to the schooner S. J.
Warriag, Sill arrlVed last evening. The following
ii • hat of Orme saved on the parser's book
it ,bert Pincer, chief engineer ; Ellery S. Allan, purser ;
John Lang, water tender ; Frederick Shaffer, coal
passer ; George Smith, seam'ill : John Powers, seaman ;
Dennis Gamma, waiter : Lowland Stevens, waiter •,
lward Lamer and S. IL Harris, passengers. The second
boat took sixteen persons from the steamer, among whom
were fbe captain and third mate. This bat capelzed twelve
or nt teen times. The captain was lost en the fourth time.
This boat arrived at Fernandina on Sunday morning, with
six persons and two dead bodies onboard The following are
the survivors in this boat :—Thomas Fitzpatrick, third mate:
Jnlm ifemplirey, seaman; John Campbell, seaman ; James
Howe, seaman ; Csancellor Sisson, Steerage Steward; Frank
o.nard, passengar. Among the passengers were the opera
trove of Paul Alharza. which arrived here plot before the
. sailing of the Eerninj Star, on the steamer rills de Paris
from France. There were titty-nine msrnbers of the troupe.
Spaulding's etreus company of thirty persons also took
passage on the Et:rainy Star. They had, it is said, all their
paraphernalia, but no horse. The crew numbered sixty-five
persons. There were lea. than 300 souls on board.
At New Orleans the appalling disaster to the Even'
icy Star was the chief topic for remark. The entire
community is deeply moved by the intelligence, and it
is impossible to express the depth of the sorrow caused
there by this sudden and terrible visitation.
The subjoined account compiled from the logs of the
steamers Santiago di Cuba and the Daniel Webster,
which suffered in the earn, gale, gives an ilea of the
hurricane which foundered the Evening Star :

During the first days of the voyage the Weather Wei mild
and agreeable, with now and again alight breezes which
were more refreshing and pleasant than uncomfortable or
threatening. Towards the morning of the second day the
wind became a little stronger, filling the sails with a stiff
breeze, which increased in the afternoon, at which time a
pretty fair gale was blowing, causing the steamship to
roll vary heavily, but not so as to create any apprehen•
Mon In the minds of the passengers or crew, ',any of
whom were used to such on the Georgian cow. The
%lad continued it about the same strength u!. during
this day, neither Increasing nor changing until • morn-
ing of the let, when a very strong gale, but n'J nothing
Manning, began to blow. Ihe ship still conti dad to roll
oollging the passengers, particularly the ladies, •a leave the
deck al.l nth') to the cabin. Things now bag. nto look
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610=1 : Sella were Wien In, and every preperation
for the coining storm, which now to even an experienced eye
Seemed inevitable. The wind continued all the afternoon to
Wow hammer and stronger ; night came on, and still no
.nlll4O for the bie.tteemr.o.Austci,a,ntrietrrowured hlonzinvt.witt
cheer, nothing to remind the terrified pareogen of the
deep tea over which they rode but the foam of the spray
which came in showers over the deck. At last, tOwarde
midnight, the dreaded hour arrived, and then, with all its
wildest fury, the dreaded hurricane burst man the tremblihs
Min, which rocked and hitched shoot like a tiny boat,
every timber of which threatened to come maunder
each moment. The fury of the hurricane was
fearful, terrific, and appalling —so much no that
it might be reasonably expected that nature would
exhaust brash, but no, alas! no, for the doomed
ship and her living freight it continued with all the
fury of a demon proud of its strength, and feasting over
the sad desolation which was so soon to follow. At last day
break.. butaUll the storm was there and continued with
remorseless force all through the day; the salient
steamer fighting as brave as brave could be, but the light
was unequal. came one fearful gust, came tortoni,
along, disturbing the water, with fearful violence Then
one heavy sea strikes the hull of the ship, and all Is over wall
the Erentny Star and all on board. She etruggled tnr
awhile, but only only like the faintest mope of death, Or the
but flickers of the dying lamp, to give one lent wild thrdek
and then went down to be seen no more, the victim of one
of the most severe storm, that has elated the coed of
Georgia for MADJ years, and which has caused more marine
disasters than have taken place for sometime; for, In addi-
tion to the !iplohnble be. now chronicled, there oho went !
down fu the same wild storm, which mewed to be eemral
along the western and southern coast, the Dante
bound from New York to ~Mobile, the crew and paseeng-re,
eighteen of which were providentially saved by the skip
erounvell; Also the Mary McKee, of Philadelphia, end the
Dlinnehalta, from Savannah to itichmond ; also the steamer
Santiag,, iii ('vim, seriously iuhlred.