The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-31 00:00:00

ialf-past three in

Afternoon of

)m Boston to

,rtest ever

rd's line. She

.eft Liverpool on

oon on the 17th Au-

d lost bowsprit

New York papers to

1 of the i2th, and

n any political news

ouncement
C respecting

The rumour

According to

ing columns,
Ida tion. The

) Congress on or before
.easury, Land, and Re-

ugh Congress; and the
had, it was said, inspired

ks a proof of the influence
ss, the trade of New York
irospect of a fair fall busi-

'dandy supplied. There
:handle paper, the con-
inch had been for some
England remained with-
to 1081. In the stock
wing.. A slight advance

ink o'f the United States.
'colonel Drayton had re-
, and James Robertson,
for the time being. Mr.

for the bank in Europe,

contain the melancholy
ent which had occurred

1 seventy-two pas-
eart-rending details

ns who wer

1 as of thos

)ard thi
Messrs,

including

'ed, we find in it

al of the families con
thrope, a Danish gen

All the remainder were

Ty heavy

She had

ll'andise.shipped for

thirty tons, wort]► at least
had also a large amount of
id the boat herself
n all, a little short

I BOAT ACCIDENT.

VENTY LIVES LOST,

rs are contained in the

Qf Au gust 10.)

penning a
hat, to-day

brief para-

we should
ction of that boat, to-

I on our own, or almopt

minutes past four, p.m.,
)r Chicago, and, as nearly
two hundred persons, in-
)ard. The boat had been
ugh the wind was blowing

int and prosperous voyage:
prospect till about eight,
about eight miles from
this city, when a slight
ately, instantaneously al-
oped in flame. Captain
at the time, rushed to the

)1 which there were

so rapid had been the progress
ssible to enter the cabin. He
a his way giving orders to the
a wind and the headway of the
It the flames and driving them
, in consequence of the flames,

:..ted to put the helm hard-
Kly round, heading to the
free on board, were then

be boats were lowered, but,
and the headway of the
on as they touched water.

the awful and appalling con-
e were frantic with fear and
madly into the water, others
3yant upon which they could
ward had been lowered. It
three or four persons in it,
the boat immediately drop-
r. A lady floated by with a
or help. There was no safety
• her the only oar in the boat.
ved. It was Mrs. Lynde, of

Nas a mass of fierce fire, and
ivourintt to save themselves by

:6y whatever they could
iton, at about ten p. m.

,ut, in consequence of

lay there until nearly
had proceeded as far

of the Erie was

'stern. The Clinton immedi•
he burning wreck about ten.
upper works of the Erie had
Le was standing, but the hull

The passengers and crew
in their agony and shrieking
nton were instantly lowered
:hat could be seen or heard
'did afforded. The Lady,
k, went out of that bar-
discovery of the tire, and
It was not thought by the

Dankirt

MI. except the dead crackling of
lividual could be seen or heard on
A line was then made fast to the

Fort made to tow the hapless hull
the Chautauque came up and lent
of the Erie was towed within about
when it sunk in eleven fathoms
was daylight. The lines were cast
I for this port, which she reached
lose who are saved several are badly
igerously injured, so far as we have

Among the passengers on board
)1, of Air. W. G. Miller, of this
ie to paint the steam-boat Ma-
demijohns filled with spirits of
:h, unknown to Captain Titus,
eck, directly over the boilers.
saved, says he had occasion to

is the demijohns, removed them.
)y whom is not known. Immedi-
ting forth of the flames, as several
a slight explosion was heard. The
burst with the heat, and their in-
ig fire instantly, communicated to
ich, having been freshly varnished,
nn powder.

an article was saved. Of course, it is
i complete list of those on board. Of
sin Titus thinks there were between
)n-i ten or twelve were ladies. In the
one hundred and forty passengers,
Swiss and German emigrants. They
with the usual proportion of men,
Ile heart bleeds at the thought.
fence, that the Erie was burned at
le spot where the Washington was
e.ntain Brown, who commanded
happened to he on hoard the
saving the survivors of the

Letter, of August 10.)
-keeper of the Erie, gives the

, in the midst of which the
as lowered by the hands and
sw ladies had been handed

5C behind became uncontrolable, and
d the capacity of the boat to sustain

from the boat were drawn under
)wned ; while a few clung to the
saved. A second and third boat
le same infatuation. Some five

ance of the fire, the machinery be-

had elapsed from the beginning of the
ss of the heat had forced overboard
m Captain Titus threw himself into
d the boat to its fate. The few who
re tossing in the' midst of the heavy
e precarious support, one of an oar,
mx, and liable every moment to lose
,ustion and the benumbing effects of

eturned with the two she had
A. them was my informant. lie
don a plank when he saw further
squished it to a friend who could
s own support, the " fender,"

He states, that those who
boat clung with desperation to
v found other support.
e minutes on the gallows-
:h his coat-skirts thrown
Id into the body of the
n is said to have been burnt
n. Young Beebe (a lad of four-
is reported to have behaved with
:ended the guys to the water, the
ft masses of flesh upon the road

for some

od upon that, and, soaking his
it to assuage the pain of his
'uish the fire from his dress
'• Though badly burnt, he
lady who was saved (Mrs.
1., of Milwaukie) was stand-
husband, arranging her
ache boat gave a lurch,

saw nothing more
ed up till the Clinton

I was upon (the Pultcm"
rk, about five in the morn.
on board. The boat was
and, in about one hours,
aster : a basket, a chest of
,icked up. Presently, the
)04 embraced in quite a
scene of the catastrophe.
ice off, the boat checked
motion over the unmade
carne of the waves under

;asionally puffing steam,
i any common tribute to the
• we left this spot, we picked
hick were covered with the
2et of those who jumped into
derived from the barkeeper,
is current in Buffalo.