Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-02 00:00:00

loiroßllfEN„ b_iiti ,:TimEE.

was the Rev. Mr. Lewis, a Wesleyan
elergv-. man. TwO of his brothers were aboard the
The interest felt ix tonnection with the sad ship—one as purser:, - Their: arrival at Queens-
catastrophe - which sealed- the fate of the Royal town had been telegraphed to their aged mother,
I Charter, rethains but little abated. - The catas- who wrote to the reverend gentleman to go to
trophe is still painfully remembered as one which meet them at Liverpool. He now, poor fellow,
closed the mortal career of -several hundreds paces the shore at Moelfra Bay. to watch for their
whose hearts but a few .hours before beat. high dead bodieS. Five bodies were washed ashore at
with hope, and whose mental -visions were, Moelfra Bay and seven at Penmanmaer yeSterday.
dazzled, .by the prospects of happiness to be None of these have as yet been identified. No
.enjoyed by friends and shared with them .in bodies have been. :washed up to-day. Several of
meeting again under circumstances of amended the dead persons have already been interred in
:fortune and renewed friendship.' No means are Moelfra and Llanallgo ehurchyards: 'The Wreck
left unused which can lead to asSuagement of the remains preaisely in the same state as she was On
griefs inflicted by the calamity. On Monday Wednesday laSt, when the coast-guard from
'the 'Underwriters at Lloyd's settled. all the poli- Amlweh were put in charge. At low water a
cies on the body 'of the unfortunate ship. A' geod piece of her hull is visible. At .high water
letter received that morning from Captain Fell, there are seen only portions of two. of the masts.
who has been despatched to the wreck•by Lloyd's: On the whole, the people in the neighbourhood
Salvage Association, states , that he, never. saw are reported to :have acted very well. Several
during his experience so complete a wreck, sums of money found
.by them have been given
scarcely a vestige remaining. 'What remains is 'up to the coast-guard. The' fragments of the
sunk where she first struck, about ten fathoms spars, and even of the mainmast, seem as if they
from the rocks,- three fathoms at loW.Water mark. had been smashed .into_
,small --;pieces by some
116 divers arrived in a steam-Vag on Saturday, mighty crushing blades impelled by steam-power.
but in.conseipienee of a 'N.N. gale, it was impos- If an army of giants had fallen to 'to hew up the
sible for them to act. On Sunday, 'the weather .ship, it could not have presented a more frag-
moderating, the divers went down and examined mentary appearance
'the stern part of the wreck, where the bullion
room was situated; but,.owing to its shattered

WRECK OF THE OVAL CHARTER.

CAUSE OF THE DIAA_g'rER

condition; they were unable to ascertain correctly I Onihis_point,...says_thg sps_!etttl. reporter for the
whether the bullion • room was intact. Captain Manchester Examinei. tznri Tinies, there are—nal-if
Fell says, from the fact of some of the bullion anxious- inquirers, and will, doubtless, be many
'boxes having been picked up among the rocks different opinions. Some will attribute it solely
broken to pieces; and the gold washed out of to the force of the gale, which was not confined
them,. he was apprehensive that it was lost. I to this part, but swept the east coast with per-
The divers made two descents, but found no gold. haps equal fkirf. An aged fisherman here said,
Accounts from Moelfm, the scene of the fearful I when I was upon the rock, at least forty feet
disaster, on • Saturday morning, state that every above the level of the sea, and fifty feet from the
tifort was being made by the coastguard men, to edge ot the water, " Sir, we could not have stood
whom had been assigned a number of the coast I here in that storm ; I never saw one like •if."
peasantry as' assistants, to recover such of the That a vessel NI, ithin. rangeof such --a-lee 'Shore-
wreck as was to be found in the carious crevices, could not make head against the tempest, is shown
of the rocks close to where the ship went to by the fact that, -in the deepest indent.-of. Red
pieces. A large. number of boats were alSo Wharf Bay, about three miles' to the eastward
manned to discharge the more melancholy duty (near Beaumaris), a schooner lies stranded,
of looking after 7the -bodies of .the unfortkutates crew were in the rigging from ten o'clock
who perished so suddenly while but some 'thirty Tuesday--night--to--nine --o'clock on Wedneidal
~yards off the main shore,
morning, then rescued by a ;slung boat ; and
Fonr bodies- were washed ashore on Friday about- four miles to :Che ;westwdrd'a brig is" also
\"ening, three men and one little girl,. The gar- on shore, on one of whose crew the coroner held
:cents of the men would lead to the supposition an inquest before he came to Llanallgo church,
of their having been third-clasS passengers. On 'Once, therefore; with the shore on the 1—
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