Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1838-06-25


FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE EXPLOSION on
.rur srr.M RoAr PuLAsKL-We take the following
y,;c,,ar. of the loss of this boat from the Wilmington
IN C1 Advertiser Of the 18th instant, given by the
s;r.t MAZE Mr. HILBERT who had charge of the boat
The lime of the explosion. The explosion took place
about II o'clock on the night of the l4th instant off the
North Carolina Coast, about 80 miles from land The
weather moderate the time, and tbs night very
dark The boat went down in about As minutes after
the explosion with all the passengers and except
those whose TO be found below. Mr.. Hb-
berd says
That at about 10 o'clock at night he called to the
command of the boat and that he pacing the pro-
menade deck in front Of the steerage house that he
fouad HIMSELF shortly AFTER upon tho maindeck, lying
between the and side Of the boat; that upon the
OF consciousness he had confused idea OF nav
ing heard explosion something Ike tnat OF ganPo"
der Immediately before he discovered himself IN ms
then situation He induced therefore, TO rise ana
walk aft where he discovered that the boat mdshiPs
blown entirely pieces that the head Oh the star
board boiler blown and the top torn open that
The tmbers and plank the sarboard side were forced
asunder und that the boat took in water whenever she
rolled in that direction :.
He became Immediately of the horrors of their
situation and the danger Of letting the passengers know
that the boat was sinking before lowering the snail
boats He proceeded, therefore, to do this. Upon
dropping the boat he was asked his object and ne re-
piled that it pass around the steamer to ascer
ran her condition Before doing this however he took
In couple Of He ordered the other boats TO be
lowered and two were shortly put into the water but
rhey leaked much in consequence OF their long expo
sure TO the SUM- that Of them sunk after frutess
attempt TO her. He had in the interim taken
al from the water, until the number made ten. In the
sther boat aheat there were eleven While they were
Faking fruitless attempt to bail the small boat the
Pulaski down with dreadful crash in about As
minutes after the explosion.
Both boats now insisted upon MIR. Hibberds directing
teir the shore, but he resisted their rcmon
frances replying that he would abandon the spot
ntil daylight At about three O'Clock in the morning
hey started in the midst of the walings OF the hopeless
-eings who floating around in every direction,
pom pieces of the wreck seek land, which about
nirty miles distant. Alter pulling about thirteen hours,
he persons in both boats became tired, and insisted
hat Mr.. Hibberd should land This he opposed, think
ing safest proceed along the coast, and to enter
some Of its numerous inets; but he length
forced yield the general desire, and 10 aempta
landing upon the beach, little east of Stump Inlet
He advised Mr.. Cooper, Of Ga, who had command of
the other boat and couple of ladies with children
under his charge wait sntil his boat had first landed
he apprehended much danger in the attempt, and,
should they they might assist him and the ladies
and children. There were IL persons in the mates
boat having taken two black women from Mr. Coopers
OF these two passengers one of the crew. and the TIVE
negro wemen were drowned. and six gained the shore
After waiting for signal, which he received from the
mate, Mr. Cooper and his companions landed In about
three hours after in safety. They then proceeded
short distance Stump Sound. TO Mr.. Redds OF
ORsow county where they remained from Friday even
ing until Sunday morning. and then started for Will
snngton. The mate and two passengers reached here
This morning (lsth June) about o'clock.
Passengers saued in the txo yapis-Mrs p. M. Night
engale and child of Cumberland Island Mrs.
w Fraser and child, St Simons. Geo; j. II. Cooper,
Glynn, Geo. P. w. Poeler, Savannah, Geo; Capt. |
Pooler, sen. VIM. Robertson, Savannah, Geo; Elias
L. Barney N. c.; Solomon -; S. Hibberd. LIST
mate Pulaski; w. c. N. Swift New Bedford; z. A. |
Zeuchtenberg. Munich Chas. b. Tappan, New York
Gideon West. New Bedford boatswain; B. Brown |
Norfolk steward.
Persons dropned in landing.-Mr Bird. of Byron Co.
Georgia; an old gentleman from Buffalo, N. Y, and
Gently from Pensacola; young man. name unknown;
J emmy colored woman; Priscilla, colored woman,
sfewardess.