The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-11-26

THE GALE ON THE LAKEs.-The gale on Lake
Ontario was very severe. The Rochester Democrat
been unusually destructive on Lake Ontario. We
toned Saturday the wreck OF the schooner VIM Mer
rtt of St Catharnes. which was blown high and dry
The schooner Missouri of sackc.ts Harbor, on her
way down from Toledo, with 5000 bushels wheat con.
gned to Oswego stranded the ptiAt during
the gale. On Saturday afternoon she had Ave feet
water in her hold About 1000 bushels Of wheat will
probably be saved and the vessel will be got Off il the
cargo removed before the surf has time to nure her
timbers.
The schooner Western of oswess, bound for Clevs.
land with $50 barrels SALT driven the sand bar
a, I5ondequst and !. now fetal wTsck Ihs crews in
insured.
There was a report in town on Saturday that eighteen
or twenty vessels stsndsd the shore between
this place and the entrance OF Niagara. We presume
this Is an exaggeration.
The Buffalo co~mereial of Tuesday says From Mr..
caEo on the i4th, we learn the following Brig En-
Piie left Chicago the day previous for southport to
load stssmer Hendrix Hudson Hudson Propeller osnesee
A. D. Patchin At Beaver Island bound up steamer Nile,
Point Barks, bound up; steamer Boston, at Bar
Point bound mp.
addition to the account published by Saturday. of
vessels wrecked and injured in the late gale, we learn
that the schooner Racine was driven ashore two miles
this side of Madison She bound up, with nerchan
disc shipped at Oswego by Bronson and Croker, Fz-
hugh Co. e WIiSat Brsw: T Wins1 Co., B.
land, is ashore at Ripley miles above Barcelona The
Pinta between this and Erie The vessels ashore at
Dayton and Charles Howard. These vessels will prob
ably be got of without much damage The brig H. H.
sizer and schooner Huron beth total wrecks The
steamer Commerce, Capt Traverse came in about
o'clock Sunday afternoon, from Dunkrk, whore she lay
0usep is ashore about mile this side Of Dunkirk on the
rocks and Isl perfect wreck
The latest accounts fro Buffalo say that the gale
the most severe between Cleveland and Buffalo. The
following is extract from letter to the editors Of the
RJehesfer Democrat; it is from gentlemen who was
passenger in the steamboat Helen Strong and dated,
WHITFIELD, Nov. 20.
We have sjust escaped of hes most dreadful ship
wrecks ever known on Lake Erie. We left Buffalo on
Thursday about ii O'Clock with about 10 passengers on
board and proceeded up the lake within about 20 miles
of Erie, with strong Northwest wind the running
very high About O'Clock our rudder chain broke
and that threw us into the trough Of the sea soon the
steam pipe burst, and we were left at the mercy of
the waves. We hove out the anchor, which broke in
ten minutes and then eight miles from shore
We drove the rocks about ~ feet hgh the boat struck
about midshps and broke all her upper works at once
pitch One Of the hands got hold of some bushes and
climbed up the rocks with rope, and succeeded in
the Pool
Reynolds, Spencer, Togs county, N. Y; VIM. Joy, Lu
cas- county Ohio; O. T Gilbert, Rochester; Mr. Bsssins
Toledo; C. C. Corsels, Detrot VIM Peck Ontario coun
ty, New York; VIM. Francis Cato, New York, w% WI
Mrs Msriah Frink, Miss sarah Frink, Miss Caroline
Frink, all OF Niagara county, New York; j. Ralph,
+ Frnk, Lenawes, Michigan; Margaret Conley, ROches
ter New York; r. Miller Elias Perry, John W Daniis,
am unable to learn We all lost every thing we had
board have nothing left but my clothes on my back
The boat and cargo T. en- entire IRE wreck h..d. h.,
have above mentioned Canadian schooner William Mer
rift high and dry on Brsddock Point at the last &C
with full cargo Of wheat for Oswego was ashore on
the same point The schooner Western. of Ossego,
with salt, wrecked on lrondequoit bar
We published, yesterday, brief account Of the effects
of the late terrible gale on Lakes Erie and oatario