Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-11-04

camp and five soldiers, who is said to
have sought refuge in Oporto.
The King and Queen of Belgians
have returned 10 Brussel.
From the N. Y. Com. Advertiser.
Loss OF THE STEAM PACKET HOME
A passenger on board the steamboat
Swan, from Philadelphia, was on board
the steampacket Home, which left this
port for Charleston, on Saturday the 7th
inst. at 4 o'clock P. M. On Sunday
night, when the packet was short dis
tance south of the Capes, violent gale
from the N. E. came on, in which the
packet went to pieces on Monday night.
There were on board ninety passengers,
of whom about twenty were saved, with
about the same number ofthe crew. On
ly two ladies were saved, both of Charl-
eston-one of them Mrs. Schroeder
the other foreign lady, whose name
is not remembered. The passenger who
brings this melancholy intelligence jum-
ped overheard, and happily reached the
shore by swimming.
1t was off Ocracock light that the
Home perished. Our informant says
the vessel went completely to pieces.
The leak began on Sunday night, and
before morning had increased so much
that all hands were kept at the pumps
even the ladies were employed with
buckets.
Captain White and nineteen of the
crew were saved.
The crew consisted of forty five per-
sons, including walters, female servants,
&C., of whom twenty five were lost.
Among the list of passengers, we are
sorry to notice the names Of Prof. Mott
and lady, of Columbia, S. c.
Two of the passenges were saved by
means of India rubber life preservers.
They state that if there had been one
hundred and fifty of these articles on
board but very few lives would have
been lost,
The following farther particulars are
from the Baltimore American.
We have conversed with Messrs.
Rowland and Holmes, the two passen-
gers on board the Home, who reached
the city on their return to N. York, to
replace their lost papers, &c.
They state that the Home made rap
id progress after she left N. York, and
had proceeded as far as to the south
ward of Cape Hatteras, when the wind,
which had blown very freshly all Mon
day morning 9th instant, increased to a
gale about two o'clock P. M, and eau
sed the boat to labor very much.
1t was soon very generally manifest
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. 1t Itissupposed that she leaked free
ly, for she soon settled SO deep in the wa.
ter as to render her wheels entirely USE
less, and her sails were then raised te
run her on shore.
About seven 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 hal
past ten o'clock at night, when she strucl
the shore near Ocracoke, and immedi
ately went to pieces! The passenger
were now in the greatest confusion ant
alarm-some leaped overheard; ant
were drowned in attempting to swim tt
land, while others possessed themselve
of pieces of timber, and foated ashore
nearly exhausted with cold and fatigue
One of the gentlemen above mention
i ed informs US that he remained quietl!
on the forecastle, and floated ashore OF
1 it after the boat went to pieces. Mrs
Schroeder, one Of the two ladies VIII
were saved, lashed herself to one of tn
tlmbers, and reached the shore in safety
Mrs. Lacoste, although very feebl
old lady, aged about seventy years, wa
safely dragged out of the surf-she
/ supposed 10 have been buoyed up by
4 settee.-One of the passengers had o.
his life preserver, and got safely to LAM
4 by its aid.
The boat was entirely broken int
] fragments, and the few trunks whicl
| were washed on the beach the next da.