Litchfield enquirer., 1837-10-26
HORRIBLE DISASTER.

l k BArruroIfE, Oct. 10, l P. IT. Mosr MELANCHOLY DISASTER !-WREcK or
 THE ETEAM-pAcKRr HOME or NEw4KoRK, AND NrrETY-FIvE LIVES LosT!! By the steamboat from Norfolk, arrived
 this morning, we have the truly heart-rend-
 ing intelligence that the steam-p packet Home Captain White, from New-York for Charles ton, whence she sailed on Saturday the 7th
 inst. sprung aleak on Monday the 9th, when
 off Cape Hatteras, and was run ashore six
 miles north of Ocracoke, in order to save the lives of those on board.
 The Home had on board ninety passen- gers, of whom seUenty Perished-and of her
 crew of forty five, t.Oe'ty.f fre were lost-ma-
 king total loss of ninety.fue Isres!
 ADDITIONAL PARTICULARs.-Sincet the fore
 going was received, we have conversed with Messrs. Rowland and Holmes, the two pas-
 sengers on board the Home," who reached this city on their return to New York, to re- place their lost papers, &c. They state that
 the Home made rapid progress after she left
 New York, and had proceeded as far to the
 southward as Cape Hatteras, when the wind,
 which had blown very freshly all Monday
 morning 9th, increased to gale about two o. clock P. M. and caused the boat to labor ve- ry much. 1t was soon very generally mani- fest that her frame was not strong enough to withstand the violence of the sea, and we learn that she raised in the bow and stern at least three feet from her proper line. It is supposed that she leaked freely, for she soon settled so deepin the water, as to render her wheels entirely useless, and her sails were then raised to run her on shore. About sev- en or eight o'clock, P. M. the water had quenched the fire under the boilers, and she continued nearing the land by means of her sails, until half past ten o'clock at night, when she struck the shore near Ocracoke, and immediately went to pieces. The pas sengers were now in the greatest confusion and alarm-sone leaped overheard, and were drowned in attempting to swim to land, while others possessed themselves of pieces of timber, and f1oated ashore nearly exhaust ed with fatigue. One of the gentlemen men, toned above informs us that he remained quietly on the forecastle, and Aoated ashore on it after the boat went to pieces. Mrs. Schroeder, one of the two ladies who were saved, lashed herself to one of the timbers, and thus reached the shore in safety. Mrs. Lacoste, although an exceedingly feeble old lady, aged about seventy years, was safely dragged out of the surf ;-she is supposed to have been buoyed up by a settee. One of the passengers had on a life preserver, and got safely to land by its aid. The boat was entirely broken into fragments, and the few trunks which washed on the beach next day were more or less injured. Messrs. Rowland and Holmes remained at Ocracoke two days before they could get a conveyance to Nor folk. They state that about twenty bodies had been washed ashore and were buried before they left the beach, among them the bodies of two or three ofthe ladies.
 On referring back to the New-York papers of the 9th instant, we find list of the passen- gers who sailed from New-York on the 7th, in this ill-fated vessel, which we subjoin.-- In addition to those here named, there were some six or eight others who went on board
 just before the l" Home" sailed, and who are not included in the list. We have put in italics the names of the survivors:
 Passengers in the steam packet Home, sailed on the Eth from New York for Charles ton: Messrs. c. c. Ca1y, J. Root, Tilcston, J. Johnson, .Jun., Y. Smilh, J. M. Roll. T. An derson, James Cokes, Vanderzee, J. D. Rol- Gnds, w. S. Read, Captain Hiu, Kennedy, c. Drayton, Walker, Fuller, Cohen, Benedict, M. Cohen, A. Loucgreen, J. Holmes, J. Boyd, G. H. Palmer, H. c. Bangs, w. Whiting, Rev. c. Cowles & lady, B. B. Hussey & lady, c. Willeman, H. B. Groom and lady, Miss Groom, 1T. Anderson, Wiley, Weld, o. H. Prince, Clock, J. Pane, A. F. Bostwick, Miss Levy, Miss M. Levy, Mrs. Camock, Mrs. Whiting, Mrs. Hill, Miss Stow, Miss Robert, Mrs. Prince, Mrs. Boyd, Mrs. Faugh, Mrs. Flynn and two daughters, Mrs. Miller, Miss M. Groom, Mrs. Levy, Mrs Schroeder, Mrs. Bondo, Mrs. Riviere, Mrs. LGcoste, Mir. Desa- bye, lady and servant, MT. A. Desabye, F. Desabye, Captain Saltus, Professor Mott and lady, Master Groom, c. Quin, MT. Smith, Larocque, Broquet, lady, child and servant, P. Domingues, Labadie, Walton. Hazard, Camthers, and Finn.
 More Particulcrs--It was then calculated that they had passed the outer Cape of Hat teras, and the boat was turned to shore to beach her, for the preservation of all on board. The sails were set, and wind on shore, but the engine was working very slowly, and the boat was settling fast With every possible exertion the water gained constantly. The boat worked and bent like reed. The bows would work up and down three or four feet. and those best acquainted with her, expected she would break in two every moment-that she would go down, and that all on board would perish.
 During the whole of this time the passen- gers cut up the blankets into strips for the purpose of flashing themselves to spars and to whatever else there might be in the way Notwithstanding the men were working with pieces of cords and blankets around their bodies, the leak increased and the boat was settling fast, yet the women as we'll as the men kept on bailing, with the faint hope of ultimate safety. All labored like heroes and rational beings, and no consternation or un- necessary alarm was manifested.
 At .6P. M. the water reached the engine, to the alarm of all, and extinguished the fires, when of course the machinery stopped. The boat was stil outsight of land, but was running with sails-the gale severe, and she laboring dreadfully. The greatest efforts were all the time made by bailing, &c., and all were ac- tivelv enoa 0ed ,lntii lO p M when the hnat