The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-13 00:00:00

THE LITE !anti COLLISION IN THE MEE

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A passenger on board the American ship Leander
(Mr. James Kerr) gives the following account of the fatal
collision between that vessel and the screw steamer Indian,
off Holyhead, at midnight on Wednesday. He says
The Leander was a fine ship, of 900 tone, and sailed from
Liverpool for New Orleans, with a fine S.E. breeze, at nine
o'clloocckk on Tuesday morning, having on board theaptt
his wife and son, one panengra, two mates, steward,
fourteenseamen. She was in light order, havingabout3oDtons
salt and 160 tons ballad an board. We made Point Lynes
at three o'clock, Skinks at five, Holyhead at six, having
run all this times eight and nine knots an hour, with a fresh
breeze and all plain sail set. All went on well until one
or two a.m. on Thursday, when I wee awoke by a terrible
crash of timber, and the first imprendon was that the ship
had been struck bylightning. I arose and tied on my life
and tried to open the stateroom door, bat it was jammed
last. I heard the mate's voice cry Run to the pernengera'
room,' and immediately he end the captain's son burst open
the door, and the mate broke the window and got out, I fol-
lowing him that wa Going forward to the cabin, whit is
on deck, with a slightly raised walk round three sides of it, I
found the captain's wife, son, and second mate. I then knew
we IMO run into, and cot two-thirds through the deck juld
shalt the main rigging starboard :a the lee side. The
captain's wits exclaimed, ' The ship is sinking ; oh I save
me, somebody: It waitoo tine ; and while she spoke the
ship settled tan In the water. I went aft again to the binna-
cle. • man earthed past me, put the wheel down, and
jumped overboard. I took one look forward, and saw the
waves rtes on every side, and then poor in like a cataract.
Tim I was corded for down with the ship, and came up to
drug& with the waves with the others in like circum-
stances. The time of these occurrences must be counted
fa seende, as not non than five minutes elapsed from the
first shock until the ship went down. The steamer that ran
roittjus down was
saheshortutzday.otffioandbe
thtneaboNuortht 20Aamizainutesean,Ifrovras.
to Ll. When all saved were mustered we
numbered 12, the captain and his son, mate, steward,
cook, six men, and myself. The captain's wife, second
mats, and nicht men being lost. The case of the second
mate is peculiarly distressing. He was the only son of his
mother, and she was a widow. We had every kindness
shown us on board the steamer, and the pseensgses nand
money enough to give the mate 61., and the eight mew 11.
each. How the accident occurred I know not, nor who was
to blame—this no doubt will be investigated. All I knob le
that some are saved, sad that it is of God's mercy that any of
us are alive to tell it."

by the Indian told our Liverpool correspon-
dent that it the boats of either veinal could have been lowered
In Ws then • quarter of an hour, several of the persons
drowned would doubtless have been saved.

THOMAS ALLSOP.

TO TIM ZDTTOB. 07_ 7113 MUNI. _

61a —I am requested to inform you that Thomas
Allaop, for whom • reward of 2001. has been offered in con-
nexion with the recent atrocious crime perpetrated in Par*
failed in the Stock Exchange In 1861, when ell C 011111.73011
'between him and the Stock Exchange necessarily awed.
Your insertion of this in • public pert of your valuable
journal will greatly oblige the committee of the Stock Ex-
chenge.—By order,
GEORGE LOVELESS, Secretary.
Committee-room, Stock Exchange, ?eh. 12.

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Collage.
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