The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-15 00:00:00

THE BURNING ob' THE S PEA ABU
MONTR g AL, IN CANADA.

LOSS OF THE LIVES OF TWO HUNDRED
SCOTTISH EMIGRANTS.
1 In The Sum of Friday last appswed the first an-
nounument of the dreadful accident which hap-
pened in the River St. Lawraace, about 12 miles
above Quebec, on the 26:h of June, when the pas-
senger steamer Montreal, with more than 400 per-
sons on board, was destroyed by fire, and the
greater portion of them ?erished. A more de-
tailed account of this disaster, in a letter of the
27th uP. from Quebec, was published by us on
' Monday. We are now in possession of Canada
papers to the 2d inst , in which we find the amplest
particulars of this terrible affair, the consequences
of which are brought nearer home to us by the
fact that almost all the sufferers were emigrants
who left Scotland no longer ago than the 18th of
last May, and who were on their way horn Quebec
to the Western districts of the country. There
were 330 steerage passengers, and 10 cabin
passengers, who sailed in the John M‘Kenzie
from the Clyde at the above date. Two
died at sea. Of the steerage passengers who arrived
in Canada 78 did not go en by the steamer, Montreal,
from Quebec, some preferring the railroad, and
others remaining in that city. The remaining 256
of the Sc Atish emigrants, however, starttll from
Quebec at four o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th,
by this ill-fated vessel, which ia less than an hour
afterwards was wrapped in flames. Only 58 of them
were saved. Besides the 200 Scotch emigants 50
or 60 other passengers, some of whom were Norwe-
gian emigrants, with a few French and Canadians,
lost their lives. 200 dead bodies had at the latest
date' been recovered.
The following is a complete list of all the Scotch
passengers who sailed by the John M'Kenzie from
the Clyde, on May 18.
Andrew Adams and his sister Margaret, Mary Ander-
son, Mary Burns, sons Andrew and Daniel, and daughter
Margaret.
. Mary Beattie, son Archibald, and daughter Annie.
W. Back, James Bury, Margaret Bloomfield, daughter.
James Burgess and Martha his wife, James Bone, Mary
Calder, Margaret Corbett, Wm. Cosmie, Wm. Colsine,
John Corbett, Catherine his wife, son John, and daugh-
tars Jessie and Rebecca, Margaret Corbett, Chas. S. Came-
ron, Margaret Caliachan. daughters Catherine, Jessie, and
Margaret, and son William.
Alex. Caldwell, Janet his wife, and daughter Jane.
Arch. Ouija, Agnes his wife, and daughters Bella and
Margaret.
James Crone, Alex. Colwin.
John Collier, Margaret his wife, sons David, Robert, and
John.

W. Cowel, Geo. Crawford, Andrew Cree.
Daniel Christian, Mary Ann his wife, sons Daniel, Ed-
ward, and Thomas N., daughters Eliza Jane and Mary
Ann.
W. H. Hart, G. Copeland.
Margaret Campbell, son Dougal and daughter Julia.
Catherine Campbell, mother, Catherine, Henrietta and
Maria, and son John.
John Clark. Margaret his wife, son Archibald, and
daughters Christina, Catherine Margaret, and Janet.
J. Colq'ihouu, James Corsi°, and his sister Lydia, Robt.
Dick, Elizabeth Downie and her daughter Eliza.
James Douglas, Janet his wife, sons John, Thomas,
Alexander, William, Peter, George, and Lockart.
Lillias Douglas, W. Downie, Mary Dickson and Adam
her son, John Douglas, Robert Fyfe, William Ferguson
and Ann his wife, Charles Farriveather, William Graham,
Elizabeth Gibson and her daughter Elizabeth.
James Gilmour, his wife, son James and daughter Mar-
tha.

John Gilmour, Charles Grant.
David Gilchrist, Margaret his wife, son James, and
daughters Isabella, Elizabeth, Margaret, Janet, and Anne.
Thomas Gilchrist and Margaret his wife.
Andrew Graham, Margaret his wife, and his son Walter.
William Glaisford.
George Gratton, Janet his wife, and daughter Agnes.
James Gratton.
Thomas Gower!ock, Elizabeth his wife, sons Thomas,
James, John, William, and Walter, daughters Mary,
Elizabeth, and Agnes.
Bruce Hall, Jane his wife, sons William, Simon, Robt.,
and Peter, daughters Catherine and Mary Anne.
Wm. Halliday, John Hunter,*and Margaret his wife,
John Herbert, John Hunter, Walter Hope, Peter Hally,
Donald Johnstone, Christina Johnstone, Alex. Know.
Thomas Laurie, his wife, sons Thomas and James, and
daughters Jessie, Catherine, wad Jane.
Juhn Laurie, John Laughlat and Ann his wife, William
Lindsay, John F. Lindsay, Robert Lindsay, Wm . M`Leod,
Thomas McAllan, Jar: es Mcßride, Charles McKay.
Geo. John McKenzie, David, Win. Robert, Ann, Ca-
therine, Isabella, and Catherine, Mary his wife, and son
Peter.
Margaret McKenzie, Daniel McDade, Jae. Malcolmson.
Donald McArthur and Catherine his daughter.
James Mannell, and Margaret, Elizabeth, and Janet
Manuell, with their mother Margaret Mannell.
Andrew Mcßeath, Margaret his wife, and son John.
Jane McLarty and her daughter Jane.
John McAlister, Marion his wife, sons Archibald, Mal-
colm, Alex., and Duncan, and daughter Euphensia.
George Manson, Elizabeth his wife, daughters Jessie,
Margaret, and Elizqbeth.
James McEwen, Mary his wife, sons Alex., Donald, and
John, daughtera Catherine, Nancy, Flora, and Christina.
Jane McLean, daughters Catherine and Mary, sons Ed-
ward, John, and Roderick.
John Meikle, father, Mary Hunter, mother, son David
and daughter Jessie.
Alex. McDonald, John M'lntyre.
David Milue, and Elizabeth his wife, sons William,
D..vid, James, and John, daughters Ann and Betsey.
Jame Muir, Agnes his wife, sons George, James, and
John, and daughter Violet.
Andrew McGavin, Janet, his wife, son Robert and
daughter Ellen.
Hugh McColl, Ann his wife, sons Donald and Peter, and
tbughtera Sarah, Mary, and Ann.
Joseph 3l`Comb, Margaret Morgan, A. M'Crae, Janet
and Mary McGee, Thos. Nicholson, Wm. Nicholson, Win.
Neilson. Wm. Ovens, Margaret his wife, sons Andrew and
Wm., and daughters Margaret and Mary.
Maly Pettigrew, Robert Rowan.
Total souls, 330.
John Reid, Elizabeth his wife, and daughter Janet.
Geo. Ramsay, Catherine Ross, Alex. Roble.
W. P. Rodger, Martha his mother, and Thos. his son.
Dr. Robb and daughter Christina.
Total, 10.
Steerage Passengers—Thos. Srnith,Hugh Stewart, Robt.
Shiel. John Steel, and Elizabeth his wife.
Catherine Shanks, Win. Shanks, Colin Sinclar, Jessie
Spence, Jas. Tweedle, Janet his wife, daughters Eliza W.
Jessie, M., and Leore a.
Jas. Tracey, John Thomson, Elizabeth Wallace.
W. Wallace, Mary his wife, son John, and daughter
Agnes.

Alcander Watson.
John Wilson, Agnes his wife, sons 'WM. and John, and
daughters Margaret and Agnes.
Adam Wilson.
Jas. Wylie, Agnes his wife, sons Hugh and James, and
daughters Mary and Elizabeth.
David Watson, Agnes his wife, son David, and daughters
Agnes, Elizabeth, and Christina.
Robert Wilson, Mary his wife, sons Robert, John, and
James.

Marion Wilson.
Margaret Wallace, sons John and William.
Hugh Urquhart.
William Young, Isabella his wife, son Roderick, and
daughters Helen, Isabella, and Betsey.
The following is a list of passengers from the
John M'Kenzie, who went by the Grand Trunk
Railway to Montreal, and were not on board the
steamer :
Wm. Rodger, Martha his mother, and Thomas his son.
James Gilmour, his wife, son James. and daughter Mar-
garet, snit another, in all five.
Andrew Cree, Wm. Halliday and wife, John Herbert,
John Hunter and Margaret his wife.
George Manson, Elizabeth his wife, and daughters Jessie,
Margaret, and Elizabeth.
George Gratton, Janet his wife, daughter Agnes, and
another, in all four.
William Young and his family.
John Douglass, Charles Fairweather, John Thompson,
Hugh Urquhart, Mary Calder.
Andrew Graham, Margaret his wife, son Walter and
family, in all five.
John Reid, Elizabeth his wife, and daughter Janet.
Donald Johnstone, wife and child.
Margaret Currie, Janet M`Phee and another, W. Colvin
and two of his family.
W. Cowan and family, seven in all.
Elizabeth Gibson and child, Colin Noble, E. Ramsay,
Mary Calder.
J. Wilson and family, six in all.
Total, 69 souls.
The other passengers from the John WlCenzie,
who were not on board the Montreal, not having
left Quebec, were—Messrs. Copeland and Smart,
cabin passengers ; John Collier and his family,
eight in number, steerage passengers ; and one
R. )wan.
Toe following are the names of the 58 Scotch
passengers (emigrants landed from the John
M‘lienzie) who were saved from the burning
steamboat, or picked up out of the
so waterafte rby t
the
steamer Napoleon, which came up on
Montreal was run aground. The relatives whom
these survivors have lost are in most cases specified
below :
Mary Ann Hannah, Thomas Christian, her son—Lost :
her husband, Daniel Christian; ber sons Daniel, 20, and
Edward, 7 years of age ; her daughters Eliza Jane, 13, and
Mary Ann, 9 years of age ; they were going to Barry, to
John Pierce, joiner.
Hugh, John, Rodrick, and Catherine Inean, 40, and
their .ister Mary, 9 years of age.
William Cowell—Lost: his brother-in-law, Wm. Doonie,
22 years of age, married, left family in Scotland.
Catherine M`lienzie, 12 years of age—Lost : all her
family; her mother, Catherine Junor, wife of William
M'Kenzie, 42 years of age ; her brothers George, 12, John
20, David, 16, William, 14, Robert, 6 ; her sisters Isabelle,
24, and Annie, 9 years of age ; they were going to their
father, Wm. M`Kenzie, farmer, 40 miles west of London,
C. W.
Margaret Corbett, 28 years of age, single, came out with
the last-named family ; no destination.
William Douglas, 14 years of age—Lost all his friends,
viz., his father, Jas. Douglas, 52 years of age ; his mother,
Jennie Douglas, 40 years of age ; his brothers John, 20,
Thomas, 18, Alexander, 16, Peter, 10, George, 8, Lock-
hart, 6 ; and his aunt, Honors Douglas, 50 years of age.
Margaret Wallace, wife of John Dickson, 55 years of
age—Lost : her son, Adam Dickson, 23 ; her niece, Elisa-
beth Wallace, 22 years of age ; going to St. Mathias, near
Chambly, C. E., to her brother, John Wallace.
James Malcolmson, 19 years of age, had no one belong-
ing to him ; is going to Toronto, to Smith and Wills, con-
fectioners.
William Nicholson, 21 years of age--Lost: his father,
T. Nicholson, 56; going to Toronto, looking for work.
John Macintyre, 26 years of age, single, from Perthshire;
going to Shakcspere, C. W., to his cousin, Win. ISl`Crosty,
paw