American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-11-30

gaze all OF Thursday, on Friday morning went
D ashore al O'Clock and went to pieces. No
etoaihef couiu 20 TO her assistance or to aid the
passengers WHOSE 0hy means Ol getting ashore
; was by swimming, as no boat could hive.
The weather was most piercing cold. and all
the passengers who saved their lives were
much bruised among the rocks, and severely
chilled. The chef engineer of the Atlantic has
come to the city, totally blind from the effects
of the cold
We are told that the greater part of all
on board have persisted. The weather was
so cold That large number who ATTEMPTED
to swim ashore, became chilled and were
drowned.
a more complete wreck could not ha We bpes
made. The machinery and boilers are in one
mass, and the wooden fragments scattered A.
long the shore on the sound.
! We have just seen one ofthe hands ON board
the Atlantic, he states that all the females on
board, eight in number, have no doubt perish
cd, and that tlCenty- nine bodies had beenTec
VeTed yesterday afternoon, all who were saved
were seriously wounded. Some with the loss
OF legs and arms, limbs crushed, and added to
suffering from the cold.
Inc ice formed rapidly, and was two in
ches thick on the shore when the landing was
made
But one scene in the drama, our duty.
though not orr will, compels us 10 publish -
| While the hand of death was busy IN this place
OF sorrow and disaster, the hand of man was
engaged in roObing the victims of The STORM
| AS the bodies were washed ashore, there were
beings in human form, who could, with cal.
lousness OF heart almost incredible, stoop down
and plumber them OF every article Of va ue 70
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watches, money. jewulry, anything convertible
TO gold, was stolen Did We not know this
statement to be true, we should hardly dare to
believe II.
We have thus given all the particulars that
have been received as yet, in relation TO this
terrible calamity, which has brought desolation.
alas, upon many, many households! Il is ilnpos-
sba to ascertain at this time, the ma mes of all
those who were It's victims, and ia all pYobabi-
hty; the extent Of The loss Of life may not be
known tor many days yeti at alias there
were doubtless persons on board Of whose
names no record has been preserved
Ofic'r' ana Passenger Of the Boat lest Captain
DusDUu u The Auanuc; br tiasier of he Navy; 1t.
Nurton, OF The Army; clergyman named Armstrong;
Mrs Hilton s,ewatdcsS; sarah Johnson, chamber
maid; Sarah RUBY, Of Providence, do; Eliza Wacob,
servant OF Mrs Lewis.
John Walton, Mrs. Jane WALTON, and their chI-
dren; John, james and Bic Jane, all of one ami-
~, from West Newburgd for PcRnsy wanna.
Robert Vine and JACOB Walton, Of the same family,
saved.
The following are the names Of such of the
crew los; as We have been able TO ascertain:
John Gleason, TbOs Gedney Michael Dousherty.
Charles T. ley, John Mac arlan.
Passengers SGBed. Capt George w Cuban, u g
Eng'r Corps SeahHry Brewster, N York; Capt Peter
Ham, Portland; Port and; &C Orr, Louisville XIV;
Joel Andrews, New London; Lieut. L Maynard, u
N; Lieut. $ Stewart u En- y; Charles Cadne-
dy, New York; Hiram Tarbo1 Lisbon. Ct Francis
hrrick Boston; Geo w. Rogers, New London; G G
C0mstock, do; Thomas Tru, sdeIl, New York; Tho.
mas GOOding, Boston; Nathan REESE Newark; ME-
B0Oth, Boston; Edward Madden, do; Chrs Mitch
ell, Norwich; g Peterson, Boston; Henry Van War
Birmingham, Enc; VaruhaIn Marsh, New York; Jas
Wilson, Boston; Nathaniel Atwood, Massac hus- Its;
Richard Atwood, do; - Gould, Adams Express;
- MuuT1p, do do,
Off ,crs ofthe boat soped. James Steson, Cd Capt.
Chares Wordsworth, hat keeper; - Boyle, clerk;
capt N. A, Allen, pilot; Charles CrandaII, I'd do;
DeLns Spef ma, wherlman.- Elias Kingston, Estimate;
r. w. Duncan, ID do; John Keeer steward; Eli
Brdsel, second Engneel; John Gale third do;
Charles Christian.
There were but three female passengers on
board, including the servant of Mrs Lewis, all
lost. There were probably OF 10 deck hands
who also persisted