Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-01-22


mighty esteemed friends. Dr. Fo,Ir,
ana WIFE. and there is scarcely anv donb
'nal they are both LOST Further partie
uiafs next week.-Li6erator.
= DREADFUL CATAsTRoPHE.-W stor
.ne press TO announce one of the mos
aIeduiui Steamboat disasters that has CIV
o.curfed on our coast. The steame,
NJ NeA'lg.on' while on her passage from
view York to Providence, with ONE HUN.
IKE AND FIFTY passengers on board.
.ooA nre about 7 o'clock on Tuesday eve.
n'ns' and was wholly consumed, with all
.ne passengers, except foe !!-CA. Waich-
AWFUL CALAMITY!
ne news OF the loss of the steamer
lexington, and nearly Two hundred lives
""'ch reached here yesterday, produced
sensation OF distress and melanchoIv
III our community that we never saw
l1qual'eo, Large groups of people col
f r at every corner. enquiring with
i lev. anxiety the particulars and trem.
o'ni9 as each circumstance was related
lest IL should expose the death of some
relative Or friend.
10 addition TO the names enumerated
oelow; as among the missing. we hav,
heard OF that of Mrs. Jarvis. wifi. If
r. Russel Jarvis, Esq, and daughter Of
lnomas Cords, Esq. of this city.
Inc Lexington had on board Sls 600
IN specie, belonging TO the Merchants
Bank.-Bostom Press 6 Post
d., once OF the Republican Standard
bridgeport Ut. Tuesday eye., JAM ID, 1910.
APPALLING CALAMITY.
Steamboat Lexington DESTROYED BIZ fire.
and nearly too hundred hves lost!!
The lexington left New-York for stun.
lngion on Monday, at 3 o'clock, P M
having, 1t is believed, about ONE HIM.
DRIED AND FIFTY PASSENGERS. A large
quantity OF cotton was placed upon her
decks. At 7 o'clock, when about two
miles from Eaton's Neck, the cotton took
ire near the smoke pipe.
The boat was headed for the shore No
soon as The effort to extinguish the fire
proved unsuccessful. She was provided
with three boats-yet such was the manic
which took possession of all minds, that
they were holsted out while the boat was
sill under headway and Immediately
swamped. The engine few minutes af-
ter gave way, leaving her utterly unmao-.
ageabie. The scene which then ensued
is described as appalling.
Captain Chester HiIIiard, of Norwich
passenger on board, from whom we
have gathered these few particulars states
that soon after the engine stopped, the
passengers began to leave the boat On
boxes, bales, &c. In company with one
OF the Flremen he was so fortunate as to
secure cotton bale, to which he lashed
himself. He remained upon this bale,
the wind blowing off Long Island shore,
until | o'clock this morning, when he
was taken up by the sloop Merchant, of
Southport.
His companion in the meantime had
been released by death from his suferincs.
Two others were taken up bv the sloop,
a fireman and the Pilot OF the boat
Both were near y insensible. 1t is sur
prlslng that any should have survived the
exposure. There is too much reason to
fear that the three are the only survivors
1t is however possible, that others NAV
have been saved.
The Boat driftel up the sound with the
Tide, and was off this harbor about mid
night. Capt. H. states that she sank at
three O'Clock, as he marked the time bv
his watch.
The efforts which last night made. in
this vicinity and a: Southport to 90 in
aid of the sufferers, proved, owing to the
Ice IN the harbors, and to other untoward
clrcumslaccs, entirely unavaiIng.
We learn that Boat which succeeded
In getting on; Of Southport harbor, after
reaching the middle of the Sound was
compelled TO return
The account which we have given of
this awful catastrophe, is exceedingly I'M
perfect. 1t may be we'll imagined that
our informant is hardly in a situation to
furnish many details.
FURTHER PARTICULARS
The editors of the Journal of Com
merce have been favored with the follow
ing letter from Capt. Brooks, of the steam
er Nimrod, dated
Steamer Nimrod Jan. Is, 1910.
L have seen Capt. Chester billiard,
one of the survivors from the destruction
of the steamer Lexington, on monday
night last by fire, and from hin gather
the following particulars! The boat left
New York at 8 o'clock-he thinks with
about $50 passengers and full freight
About half,past seven in the evening,
heard the cry of fire, he ran on deck, and
saw the fire bursting through the wood
works round the chimney. All was con-