The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-03 00:00:00

A PASSENGER'S ACCOUNT.

The storm commenced immediately
Oliver P. Manlur, a passenger, gives the followirg
steamer left Havannah, increasing until Friday.
On Friday afternoon all hands were called up to bale,
information
after the
the vessel continued to ship water, and all hands worked
with buckets, barrels, &c., Friday night and till about
2 o'clock on Saturday, when the brig Marine hove in
sight ; all the ladii:s and children were put on board the
Marine about six o'clock p.m., and the chief engi-
neer left with them. In launching the boats two of
the five of them were stove, and the othcr
three were despatched with the women and children
about an hour before sunset. The Marine
was lying nearly a mile off, and; by the time the three
boats reached her it became evident that the ship must
go down before they could get back. All hands then
seized pieces of spars, chairs, and life preservers, while
others rushed below to secure their treasure. The con-
fusion now became great, though all acted with coolness,
' each endeavouring to make the last effort for his own
_safety. Now the vessel gave three lurches, some of the
Aaosengers jumping off at each lurch; those who jumped '

off at the first and second lurches swam off to some
distance, but the great mass remained on deck
until the vessel went down, which was a minute or two
afterwards. I had provided myself with a life-
preserver and a piece of a spar, and determined to
go down with the vessel with the great mass of the
passengers ; all of them stood about bracing themselves
up and securing those articles most valuable to buoy
them up. The vessel went down, stern foremost. I
was standing near the smoke-stack at the time, and we
were all dragged under the water with the sinking ship.
The general supposition is that we were all drawn under
the surface at least 20 feet, and when we rose we were
nearly stifled ; the rapidity with which I was drawn
down tore the spar from my hands and the life-pre-
server from my body, and when I reached the surface
my clothing was all stripped off me. I however met
a friend who had two life-preservers, who gave me
one, and we also seized on pieces of the wreck, which
helped to sustain us. About 400 of the passengers were
struggling about, most of them having lost their life-
preservers, and others remaining on pieces of the wreck,
which came up with us. The boatswain had cut away
the upper works of the vessel, so that when the hull
sunk they would float off, but they were dragged down,
but came up in fragments. Many persons were killed,
stunned, and drowned by being struck with pieces of the
wreck, while the pieces were to others the ultimate
means of safety, and occasionally a Ruh of light-
ning showed to each other a sea of struggling forms.
Each strove to encourage his friend with hopes
which he scarce felt himself. At first we were all
together in a mass, but soon the waves separated us,
and at each successive flash of lightning we discovered
that we were being scattered over a wide area, and
soon found ourselves apparently alone on the boundless
ocean.

The rest of this account does not differ from that
already received. He concludes by saying about 10
o'clock he was picked up by the bark Ellen, and had
the satisfaction of finding others on board her.
The steamship Empire City left Norfolk yesterday at
11 o'clock a.m., with many of the rescued passengers.

LIST OF THOSE KNOWN TO SE LOST.
Wm. Lee, Canada; Benjamin Colt Hancock, county
Illinois ; Hanson and John Herne, Missourie ; Richard
Wilton Quincy, Illinois ; James E. Burch, United
States'• mad contractor, Fall River ; Gabriel Brush, bag-
gage master, New York ; Charles Taylor, North Caro-
line ; Samuel Shrive, San Francisco ; Dr. Byanni, do. ;
Dr. Gibbs and Mr. Marin, California ; Mr. Parker, San
Francisco ; Mr. Booker, Boston ; Purser Dobbin (brother
of the late Secretary of the Navy), North Carolina ; Mr.
White, Sacramento ; Purser Hull, of the steamer Contra
America, New York ; Mr. Hull (brother of the purser),
San Francisco, California ; Mr. Van Rensallaer, first
officer of the steamer; Captain W. L. Herndon, United
States' Navy, commander of the steamer ; and James
T. Tennison, doctor of the steamer.
The Norwegian barque, at Norfolk, is the barque
Ellen, Captain A. Johnson, from Belize, Honduras, and
not the bar quo Eloise, as was reported.