The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-11 00:00:00

WRECK OP A NEW YORK LINER.
TEN LIVES LOST.

A melancholy shipwreck, involving the 100 of
ten lives, occurred off the island of Granary in Hoy
Sound, on New Year's-day. The ill-fated vemel was the
Albion (Captain Thomas Williams), • fall-rigged ship of
1,225 tons, bound from Liverpool to New York with a
general cargo and forty-three passeager; mostly Germain,
on board. The crew, including the officers, numbered
twenty-four in all. From the time when she left Liver-
pool, twelve days previous, the Albion bad experienced
very stormy weather, her sails being tern to shreds, her
cordage worn out, and three of her boats destroyed ere
she made the Orkney coast. She narrowly escaped ship-
wreck on St. Kilda, and bon up for Orkney, after a des-
perate but abortive attempt tonna Stornoway. When Hoy
was sighted the crew were very much exhausted by
continuously labouring at the pumps and working the
ship. Oa New Year'sday the wind blew with great
violence, accompanied by occasional blinding showers of
hail and snow, and a heavy sea was breaking along the
Atlantic seaboard of the islands. About noon the Albion,
with very little canvas set, was observed standing in foe
Hoy Sound from the westward. On reaching the mouth of
ibe dangerous sound a foretopeoll was est, and just at this
critical moment a fierce hailstorm mine on, hiding the ship
from the view of those who were anxiously watching bar
progress. When the hail cleared off the Albion was mai
brought up in the sound in • dangerous position opposite
the island of Graemsay. Two pilots from the island rapidly
made their way on board. By their advice the cables
were being cut, but ere this was effected the ship began
to drag her anchor, sad became quite unmans's-
able from her want of canvas. Dragging still to
leeward, she struck heavily as last an the Point
of Ores, in the island of Orsemasy. In • short time,
so violent was the contact of the vessel with the rooks, the
hatches sprang up, and the deck planks split from stem to
stern. Among the grasenmenethere were a number of wawa
sad children, and • scene of the most heartrending descrip-
tion ensued. Several boats immediately put off to the
ship from Graemsay, Hoy, and Stroznness, and the mail
steamer, which was fortunately at band, also approached
the scene of disaster to render assistance. As the vessel,
from being fast on the rocks, appeared to be rapidly break-
ing up. the women, children, and male en were got
into the boats without delay, seed the great pro-
portion of them, after oonsiderable effort, were
landed in safety. The wend trip of one of the
heats, however, terminated in • sad catastrophe.
With fourteen persons on board, sine of whom were male
Cen, she had got alongside of the mail steamer, which
aTgcloss as possible to the wreck. In their anxiety to
be taken out, the passengers rushed to one side, capsizing
the boat, and ten of the anfortunate beings perished. Of
these seven were male passengers, two belonged to the crew
of the Albion, and the remaining victim was a young man,
Joseph Mowat, son of Captain Mows; of Greerneay. Two
passengers and two seamen were dace saved out of the
entire boatload. When the boat capsized, Mr. James Sheerer
and others gallantly put off in the small boat of the mail
steamer to do what they could in rescuing the
drowning men. They picked up the four who were saved,
and a fifth, who appeared to be a good swimmer,
was followed until it was found impossible to 'maitre
farther amid the rough sea Leto which the strong current
had dragged the poor fellow, who battled long and bravely
against his hard fate. The daylight was beginning to fade,
the flood tide was about to oome in, when the captain. mate,
and steward, who were the last to leave the ship, took to •
boat, and reached the shore in safety. Before 5 o'clock the
once stately Albion was completely broken up, and the
Crummy beech was strewed with pieces of the wreck and
portions of the cargo. The passengers and crew, who lost
the whole of their effects, obtained accommodation for the
night in the two light-houses of Crummy. On the follow-
ing day they were taken off by the mail steamer, and landed
at Slimness. where they were taken in charge by Mews.
Mowat and Hay, Lloyds' semis.
The panders, many of whom were in an utterly desti-
tine condition, were treated with greet kindness by the
people of Stromnese, who supplied them with food, shelter,
and comfortable clothing. Some of the ones were of a very
distressing character. A German woman, with two
children, had lost her husband, all the money they had
being in his possession when be perished. Another German
woman had also lost her husband, and two sisters lost a
brother each. The greater portion of the crew of the
ill-fated ship arrived in Kirkwall on Wednesday night,
waiting the arrival of the steamer to convey them to the
South. The following are the names of the Shetland part
of the crew, all of whom were saved :—James W. William-
son, Unit ; James C. Jamieson, Unit ; and James Header-
sae, Lerwick. On Thursday the passengers, who were
grateful for the kindness which had been shown them in
Strome's% left that port by the packet Reaper. Owing to
the rapidity with which the vessel broke up, little has been
recovered from the wreck. Some crates of stone-ware, we
uederstand, were carried by the canon to Houton Shore,
a distance of six miles from the scene of the wreck.—
Orkney Herald.

ANOTHER LIVERPOOL SHIP DISABLED. •—• On
Thursday the mail steamer, on leaving Strummer for Sarah-
ster, tell in off Hoy Be with a large ship in a disabled
state, which had a flag of distress flying. The vessel was
drifting towards the rocks of Hoy when the steamer went to
her sasistanos and took her in tow. She turned out to be
the British Queen (Captain Heyward), bound from Liver-
pool to Philadelphia with a general cargo. She left Liver-
pool on the same day as the Albion, encountered the same
gales, and narrowly escaped being wrecked in the same
vicinity. The British Queen is in a crippled condition.
She has lost her bulwarks, several spars aod sails, and por-
tions of her rigging. Liverpool ships have suffered very
severely during the the late great storm.—Orkney Herald.
SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN.—
Yesterday an inquest was held at the village of Cholsey,
near Wallingford, before Mr. A. D. Bartlett, coroner for
the lower division of Barks, on the body of a young un-
married woman, named Harriett Ano Sawyer, whose
death created a great de..l of excitement in that neighbour-
hood, as it was supposed to have resalted from a very se-
vere beating she received at the bands of a soldier sta-
tioned at Aldershott, where Sawyer led a deaolute We for
eight or nine weeks. The deceased returned home soon
afterwards complaining very much of pains in the bowels.
Evidence was given by the mother of the deceased, and
also by Mr. Breach, surgeon, of Cholasy, who had been
unable to find any external marks of violence. The jury
found a verdict :—"That deosesed died from inflammation
of the bowels, but whether from violence or not there was
no evidence to show ; it the same time, however, they
thought it a very suspicious cam." Mr. Inspector Johnson,
of the Barks constabulary, who had made every possible
inquiry into the case, was present at the inquiry.
FATAL OMNIBUS ACCIDENT. —Yesterday Dr.
Lsukester held an inquiry at the Middlesex Hospital rela-
tive to the death of John George Barker, aged U, who wee
killed on Moorlay by being run over by an omnibus. It
appeared in evidence that a Bayswater omnibus was pro-
ceeding along Oxford-street at the rate of about three miles
ao hour, and going in an opposite direction was a cart
laden with furniture. The carriage-way being densely
crowded with vehicles the deceased get babied the cart,
and when as he thought a good opportunity offered foe
crossing, darted forward to do so. Ho was immediately
caught by the wheels of the omnibus, both of which passed
over his body, fracturing his ribs, end crushing his liver to
pieces. His death was instantaneous. The Comma
remarked that it was a most dangerous practice to cross
the street behind a vehicle. A great many streetaccidents
occurred through the carelessness of people in crossing the
streets. He thought that if bridges were placed in the
centre of streets many accidents would be prevented. He
strongly condemned the practice of potting passengers
down from omnibuses in the middle of the street. A
verdict of " Accidectel Death" was returned.

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