The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-18 00:00:00

DISASTROUS SKIP WRECK.

The following is an account of the foundering at sea,
in lat. 38 N., long. 56 W., on the 13th of September, of
the barque Henry Horbeck, Captain True, from Cardiff
to New York, laden with railroad iron. Ten men, in-
cluding the captain, and a woman and child, were
saved.

On the Bth of September, at 12 p.m., it came on to
blow hard from the southward, when the ship was hove
too under a close-reefed main-topsail. At 1.30 it blew
a hurricane, during which the foretop-gallant mast and
mizentop mast, and all the sails, with the exception of
foresail and spanker, were lost. At two o'clock a terrific
sea struck the ship on the port bow, and swept the decks
of both boats, together with the deckhouse, and at the
same time tearing open and carrying away the water-
ways, and washing two men overboard besides breaking
the legs of two others, and seriously bruising the arm of
another. At daylight the weather was more moderate, and
the crew were enabled to pump the ship dry. On Sunday
the 11th, at two a.m., the gale came on again from the
N.W. with a heavy sea, and the ship laboured heavily
in the trough of it. Wore the ship, the wind coming
westward ; in so doing a heavy sea struck the ship
under the counter, and must have started some of the
butt-ends of the planks, for it was instantly perceived
that she leaked fearfully. All hands were kept at the
pumps until Tuesday morning, the 13th, when, being
worn out with labour and want of rest and food, a raft
was made of some spars and planks, and the remainder
of the officers and crew, with the woman and infant
above mentioned, launched forth on it with only a five-
gallon keg of water, and part of a ham, to sustain
life. On this fragile and miserable refuge, on a quarter
of an ounce of raw ham and one gill of water, the
party continued to float until the 17th (the ill-fated
craft having sunk three hours after leaving her),
when a steamer was observed coming towards them, and
they reared the remains of an ensign on a boat's mast,
but for a time was unobserved, and despair was eating
up their hearts, when they saw to their inexpressible
joy the steamer shorten sail, lower a boat, and come to-
wards them. The steamer proved to be the Velasco,
Spanish mail packet, from Havanna, with much yellow
fever on board, going to ride out her quarantine at Vigo,
where, on their arrival, all were put into the lazarette—
a horrible hole for any one—and one of the sailors had
his broken leg amputated below the knee, and the others
had medical care. They were four days on the raft, and
the woman and child suffered dreadfully, as well as the
injured men. The former had her milk dried in her,
and, of course, could not supply the poor infant, only
four months old, with sustenance until she herself had
sufficient food in quarantine, where five of the Velasco's
crew died of yellow fever. Those of the Henry for-
beck's crew who were Americans (six in number), the
American consul sent to Cadiz in the Velasco, and the
remaining portion came home in the Iberia, by consul's
order. The whole of them—the woman and infant par-
t!cularly—suffer much yet from their injuries and priva-
tions, and are truly objects of commiseration and relief
from the Benevolent Shipwrecked Fishermen and Ma-
riners' Society, as they have only the tattered clothes
they escaped in to shelter them from the approaching
cold weather, and have no means of returning to their
native homes, Bristol and Cardiff.

EMIGRATION FROM GERMANY.—In the month of Sep-
tember, 2,048 emigrants left the port of Hamburg for
America and Australia direct, and 1,402 proceeded from
f •
that port by way of Hull Liverpool. This makeso -t,
total of 3,450 German emigrants from Hamburg alone.'
Of this number, 3,158 were bound for North American
port, 4 for Rio de Janeiro, and 290 for Melbourne, Syd-
ney, and Port Adelaide.—Erniburg Hansa.
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