The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-10 00:00:00

• Exhibition In Pans.

FEARM. CATASTROPHE OS THE MERSEY.—
Yesterday the Liverpool °moiler held uu hi quest un the
body of John Kinsella, who was chief officer of the
Liverpool ship Tara, which was totally lost during the
disestious gale which prevailed on the 22nd ult., and out
of twenty-three persons un board the captain was the
only one Paved. Captain Armstrong's evidence was to
the effect that on the afternoon of the day in question he
left the Wellington Dock in tow of the steam tug Con.
stitutkn. At live o'clock a heavy gale came on suddenly.
At six the hawser attached to the tug parted, and he
asked the captain of that vowel to give him his
teener, as Le wanted to keep the ship to wind eard
until there was sufficient water to pale the bur. Thu
captuin of the tug, however, refused to give him the
laver, and steamed away. Shortly afterwards the ships
tnuent. WAR 01l blown away, and she drifted towards the
Jordan fats, a mile or two from the north-wort lightship.
The anchors were let go, but the vessel struck about nine
parted amidships about ten, and at eleven he had
all the crew around him in the mizen rigging. In a few
minutes the ship went to pieces, and they all went down
with the wreck. Witness forced himself to the surfer* of
Die water through the rigging. but he saw nothing of any
of the crew then. A piece of wood floated near him and
come seruse his breast. lie supported himself upon this
until he get two other piece, which he placed in
the term of a cross, and on them he floated until
he was picked up between one and two o'cluek
in the morning by the steamer Counties+ of Oalloway.
shoot five miler from the scene of the wreck.
Captain Armstrong identified the body viewed by the
jury, and which was found floating in the river on Thurs.
day, es that of John Kinsella, the chief offioor of the W-
hited ship. The captain said, in the course of his evi-
dence, that be never remembered • dirtier night utl the
port, and from the moment the tug left him he gave up
ell thoughts of getting to sea The engineer of the Con-
stitution was alled as a witness, and ho distinctly ',tuba
that it was perfectly impossible to render an asriatenoe
to the Turn utter the hawser ported. Keeping off she
wee in a potation of greet danger, and had she apprtiachul
the Tutu, she would have been dashed to pieeem. Other
evidence was given to reaffirm the truth of this statement,
and the itny returned a wentiot of .• Aoeidentally
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