The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-06-13

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sands OF persons visited the wreck of the Fulton The
steam boats their passage up the river STONED to
learn the particulars, and hundreds of small boats nro
ceeded to the spot. The Navy Yard was also filled
with persons making enquiries after their relations or
friends, and expressing much anxiety see the bodies
for the purpose of ascertaining whether they were
among the dead or wounded.
Commodore Chauncey and the officers of the sta.
ton board the wreck, after the explosion. giy
ing directions to the scattered timber in order
that search might take place for such bodies as mot
be buried in the ruins.
The tide being at the ebb, immense quantities of the
fragments of the ship Hoated down in front of the city,
and hundreds OF small boats were seen busily engaged
in securing them.
Since the foregoing was prepared. we have had 4
call from officer who left the hulk since ten O'Clock.
The tide had come in, that she was filled with water
We are panied to learn, that Mrs Breckenridge is
not slightly, but very severely wounded; and the in
jury of Lieut. Plat is serious that but faint hone
is INDUCED of his recovery.
What is very remarkable circumstance although
several of the persons at dinner in the ward ROOM
escaped, with their lives, and some of them unnlure,
not vestige of the table, chairs, or any of the fu
ture in the remains. Every thing was blown to
atoms.
The scene, even this morning, at the Navy Yard, is
distressing beyond description. Indeed to attempt a
description of such spectacle at the very moment
Mhen our lSeluSs are narrowed up 10 painful degree
by the shocking reality, seems revolving be
dertaken. We might speak of the wounded living,
and the manged dead, and of the fragments of bodies
blown to pieces, mingled among the broken relics Of
the sp-but such particulars may better be left to the
readers Imagination.
When we left the Navy Yard at Il o'clock, only
fpe men were unaccounted for. These have doubtless
persisted, either by drowning, or by being crushed
among the timbers.
The interment of the bodies of the seamen, &c.
to take place at half past O'Clock this day-that
Of Lieut.. Breckenridge at 6 O'Clock this afternoon.
Nep York; June 6.
Burial Of the ead."-The remains of the un6or-
tunate persons who were destroyed by the explosion
In the steam ship Fulton, yesterday inferred IN
the burying ground at the Wallabout. The bodies OF
twenty-one men and two were taken from the
ship house at O'clock and borne to the grave in SIX
CARTS attended by detachment of marines, the Cer
gy, sailors and marines, officers of the Navy and Ma
rine Corps, the Commandant and principal officers on
the station, and large body of citizens. The service
was read by the chaplain of the yard, and volley Of
musquetry fired the grave by detachment OF
marines. The body of one of the females was taken
from the ship house by her friends to be privately IN
tered.
The remains of Lieut.. Breckenridge were convey
ed at six o'clock from the Navy Yard TO the Eplsco,
pal burying ground in Fulton street. The order OF
the procession, according to the Gazette was as fol-
lows
Escort of Marines commanded by Lieut.. Nlcho-
son, and two bands of Music the Clergy; the
Corpse; the seamen of the station; the petty OIL
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