Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1846-11-25

A. N. GaAr, Esq, a brother Of the pub.
Usher Of this papers has furnished us the
following most melancholy particulars of
the late gale. He left Buffalo on Friday
morning, and came to this place by land.
The facts presented were collected from
personal interviews with the captains, crews
orthe rescued from the wrecks, and NAV
be relied upon:
"Brig Osceola, Capt. Snow, went ashore
near Silver Creek; total wreck. Four men
lost, four saved. Among the rescued is the
captain, SO badly bruised that he is not ex-
pected to live. | could learn nothing OF
the cargo. ~
Schooner Swan ashore on sand bar
near Barcelona; oil safe.
Schooner Harwich ashore near Barcelo.
mia; not injured.% ss 81.
Steamer Indian Queen ashore near Sill.
YER Creek: broke in two. No lives lost.
Slooop Bayona, ofConneaut, capsized off
Barcolna; crew consisting Of one man and
two boys oil lost.
1Ashore at Erie. Chas Howard. schr.
U. 5, of Detroit J. H. Lyon, Of Toledo.
Huron, Of Cleveland. DAYTON of Black
River, filled; cargo $4,000 worth of goods,
insured. Brig H. II. sizer, supposed to
be total wreck. Schooner Pinta, on the
sand. not injured; one man lost by falling
overheard.
Brig ashore some six miles above Erie
sand beach. Name not known.
A three masted schooner ashore al Ash,
tabula. Supposed to be the Oneida.
Twelve miles west Of Ashtabula schr.
Racine ashore and filled.
The steam boat Helen Strong is total
wreck short distance above Barcelona.
lett Buffalo for Toledo on Thursday, the
10Th, about noon, with large number of
passengers and heavy freight of goods,
mostly for Erie When in sight Of that
place she was struck by heavy beam sea,
which parted her rudder chain. The after
cabin was being cut away in order to ship
tiller, when one of her steam pipes burs.
and let her steam all escape, but no one
was injured by the explosion. Her anchor
was dropped to which she swung for half an
hour, when the chain parted, and at about
10 o'clock night, she struck a rocky shore
which rose perpendicular some thirty feet
above her hurricane deck. After striking
TWO or three times she broke in two places
and setting into the sand, remained station
ary under the cliff. The first sea that
struck her after she settled carried away
the whole weather side Of her cabins, max.
ing clean breach through and through her.
Every light had been extinguished by the
sea, and the night was horribly dark, no
one unassisted could scale the cliff, and to
remain on the wreck seemed quite as i'm.
possible. .egs
At this critical moment it was ascertain
cd that at the first time the boat struck the
rock, and when she was high on the wave,
one OF the wheelsmen and the 2nd engineer
with small cord had made the fearful leap
against the rock and fortunately without
knowing anything Of the place, and not
able to see anything for darkness, they
caught the root of a tree that had run far
below the surface; by the aid Of which,
they scaled the height The wheelman
went Immediately in search Of help and
lights, and the engineer dropped his rope
to the deck OF the wreck, directing it to be-
made fast to some light man, it was done,
and the man at the top drew up the man
from the wreck and the two drew UP the
third, and so on, until some sixty men,
women and children were taken up. ,s.fi
Many Of the passengers, especially fe-
males, were badly larcerated BY being haul
ed rapidly up those pointed crags. One in
FAINT, three weeks old was drawn up with
out injury. The rope was thrown down
until no one seized it, and after frequent
and loud calls from the people on the cliff,
it was presumed that all were saved that
were alive. But on visitingthe wreck next
several were found alive, and tak.
en- of.
The number Of passengers on the boat
was not known, nor could ascertain the
number saved. No dead bodies were found
on the wreck, nor had any been found on
the shore from the steamer On Friday night
after the wreck si}s ff @saa's3is ,sa
It was generally believed that one woman,
had perished In the night, and been washed
AS to others, reports were 50 conflicting
that no conclusion could be come to abontit.
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