New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-11-23
Great Gale ON Lake Erie.

rh.,. so ,b;ck as TO obstruct the vision at few
wards, distance. The weather was very cold withai'
and ue fear the damage done on the Lake was
yerv great The Buffalo Commercial OF Saturday
evening recounts the following disasters "i'nih
few miles of that port
The schooner Jefferson, Capt. Dousail went
ashore at o'clock last night, about three ,n'es
above Buffalo lighthouse, and is total wsecA' AT
tended with melancholy loss of lite-one ea,ire
family, husband, wife and FIVE children, tosethef
with a Young womap, and one OF the men oeions-
ing to the vessel, having persisted. Capt. Dou-
gall, from whom we have the painful recital, says
that about two hours after his vessel oeached, the
companien-way washed off, and the children
and voung woman. drowned in the cabin and folc-
castle. 4 portion of the crew had got ashore, IN
ouest of help, and were endeayoring to rescue the
family. The mate wrapped his overcoat around
the woman, and tried to keep her warm by walk
:n, her 10 and fro on the beach, but she soon be-
came exhausted and incapable OF motion, and was
placed in the boat which had washed up, where
she died in short time. Her husband was de-
lirois on reaching shore, and attempted TO escape
INTO the swamp near by, but persisted WITHIN
short distance. One OF the hands belonging 10
the vessel. named James Bruce, got into the swamp
and was likewise lost. The family were from
Hartford. Ct.-names unknown-the chlidreh
aged from wears downwards. The Jefferson
was owned by j. W. Ransom, OF Chicago, and
was bound for that port, with cargo ct oeo par
rels salt, 40 tons iron, and some merchandise,
which will be mostly lost-shipped by }. Murray
& Co. of this city. The crew succeeded, about
midnight in getting on board the brig o!iVe hich.
nond, beached below them, in greatly exhausted
state
When our reporter reached the vessel this fore
noon, the figure of the young woman above men
,ioned was discovered standing in an upright pos
f,Te in the forccas,lc companon-way, frozen stark
and ,tifl. with hands partly raised in an imporlng
nos,pre. and her ewes fixed with cold and stony
gaze upon the shore.
The brig Olive Richmond, new vessel, Capt
Dorchester. went ashore about mile below the
Jefferson, early yesterday afternoon she was
bound up in ballast, and will be got on without
damage.
The schooner Walter Joy. Capt. Lacy, went
ashore bout the same time, near the Olive Rich
,nond. with deck load of Hour, which will be
partly lost, but the vessel will be got of with tr-
fling injury.
The brig Frances Mills, Capt. Langley, went
ashore on the Canada side, three miles below Point
Abino, at . o'clock, P. NJ. Yesterday She lies
partly filled with water, by which the lower tier of
her cargo, consisting OF merchandise, will be in
| ured. She was bound for Chicago and ST. Jo-
.ephs will probably be got Off
! The schooner Edwin Jenny, Capt. Dawson,
dragged her anchors and went ashore below Point
Abine. little above the Frances Mills. She was
loaded with stone for some port up the Lake.
We have been furnished with the following fur
Their particulars by Pomeroy & Co. OF the package
Express to Buffalo, dated Saturday, Nov. 18th:
So far as information has been received, ou
worst apprehensons have been realized OF the dis
astrous effects Of toe gale. The following add
tional vessels are reported as wrecked
Schr Indiana, loaded with salt for Chicago, to
tai wreck.
schr. Mississippi, Capt. Raymond, for Kingston
loaded with flour and pork, total wreck.
Schr. Ohio, Capt. Robertson, light
| Schr NJ Kingman freight not known, lies higl
and dry, and is supposed will be got off withou
much damage.
The above vessels are all on Gravely Bay
Schr. Florida, loaded with heur, pork and
| whiskey, ashore little above Point Abino, tota
wreck.
Schr. Henry Roop, Captain Fisk, 1000 bushel:
corn, a, Silver Creek.
OF the vessels heard from, eleven in number, al
have been wrecked, in distance of some twenty
miles from Buffalo, which is the extent Of the coas
heard from; what the effect has been beyond is
unknown, bu, it is apprehended will prove most
fearful.
The steamers Great Western and Wisconsin
from the upper lakes, and due at Buffalo on Thurs,
day. had not arrived. The canal is closed at Ro-
chester and Westward. Post
GALE ON LAKE OyrARlo-A letter just received
from Osweeo, dated Nov. 10, says:
q We are in the midst of one of our most ire
mendors westerly gales. A schooner, from mis-.
management, has ust been driven on the East bar,
within the piers, and must be lost. | never saw a
more prodigious sea running.
Farther adYices we fear will swell the tide OF
suffering for days yet. No STEAMBOATS, had arrived
down the Lake for twenty-four hours. We learn
verbally that the Erie Canal as far East as Roch-
ester closed with ice on Saturday night-douhtlcss
from the effect of the snowfall. We fear that BY
this time the Canal is nearly closed throughout
greatly to the disappointment and loss of the mer-
camille community, who have now millions worth
of Produce embarked on it or awaiting transport
tation the wrong side of Albany.
The water rose five feet in Buffalo Harbor, ard
the Rochester packet of Friday night had not
reached Buffalo on Saturday at , p. M.
~ A man named Refs has been arrested at
Wormleysburg, Pa charged with the preparation
of recent heavy robberies at Hancock, Md In his
bureau was found several bags of silver and note
for 81 900 known to have been Gee of the stolen
notes. The officers are Oh the lookout for sus-
suspected acc omplice.
MuRDER.-A most bruta! murder was commit
ted in the town Of Keesvie, Essex County, on the
night of the 10Th inst. David Bishop, me-
cl,anic returued 10 his home la1e nj nioht and