The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-11-27
From ths Ohio Plain Dealer extra, Nov. Va
DISASTERS OF THE GALRl
FuLL AND DIsAsrRous rAarIcuLAa,

A. N. Gray, esq, brother of the publisher Of
this paper, has furnished US with the following
most melancholy particulars Of the late gale He
left Buffalo on Friday morning, and came to thi.
place by land. The facts presented were collected
from personal interviews with the captains crews
or the rescued from the wrecks, and may be relied
upon.
Brig Osceola, Capt. Snow, went ashore near Sill
yer Creek total wreck -Four men lost four saved.
Among the rescued is the captain, so badly bruised
that he IS not expected 10 live. could learn moth
ing OF the cargo.
Schooner Swan ashore on sand bar near Baroelo-
ma; all safe.
Schooner Harwieh ashore near Barcelona; no.
injured.
Steamer Indian Queen ashore near Silver Creek,
broke in two. No lives lost. .,.....,e. -..-...,
SIooP Bayona, Of Conneaut, capsized of Barcelo-
ma; crew. consisting OF one man and two boys, all
Ashore at Eris.-Charles Howard; Schr. United
States, OF Detroit; J. HI Lyon, ofToledo; Huron of
Clevelandj Dayton, of Black river filed; cargo
$4,000 worth of goods, insured; Brig II. II Szer,
supposed to be total wreck; schooner P,n,a. on
the sand not injured one man lost by falling over.
board. elafpe -
Brig ashore some six miles abb Erie sand beach,
Name not known. ~ st ...g.aarf ~. "a ~.
A three-mested schooner ashore at Ashtabula.
Supposed to be the Oneida. f.Ur.-
Twelve miles west of Ashtabula, schooner Racine
ashore and filed. .ra = III -auor.s..Fe. 80
The steamboat Helen Strong is total wreck a
short distance above Barcelona She left Buffalo far
Toledo on Thursday, the Goth, about noon, with a
large number of passengers and heavy freight Of
goods, mostly for Erie. When in sight of that place
she was struck by a heavy beam sea, which parted
her rudder chain. The after cabin was being cut
away IN order TO ship ller, when one of her steam
pipes burst and let all her steam escape but no one
was injured by the explosion. Her anchor wns
dropped, to which she swung for half hour, when
naT nnhu ol,a,.t -r.l Il.
she struck rocky shore which rose perpendicular
some thirty feet above her hurricane deck After
striking two three times she broke in two places
and settling into the sand remained stationary un-
der the cliff. The FIRST that struck her nfter she
settled carried away the whole weather side of her
cabins, making clean breach through and through
her. Every light had been extingushed by the sea,
and the night horribly dark; no one, unassised,
could scale the cliff, and to remain on the wreck
seemed quite impossible. lAtt
At this critical moment il was ascertained that
at the first time the boat struck the rock and when
she was high on the wave, one of the wheesmen
and the second engineer, with small cord had made
the fearful leap against the rock, and fortunately
without knowing anything Of the place, and not
able 10 see anythingfor darkness, they caught the
the root of tree that had 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 10 the
deck Of the wreck, directing it to be made fast TO
som9si'ght man. it was done, and the man at The
top dfcw up the man from the wreck, and the two
drew up the third and on, until some sixty men,
women, and children were taken up qlAa
Many of the passengers, especially females, were
badly lacerated by being hauled rapidly up those
pointed crags. One infant, three weeks old, was
drawn up without injury The rope was thrown
down until no seized it, and after frequent and
loud calls from the people on the cliff. it was pre-
sumed that all were saved that were alive. But on
visiting the wreck next morning several were found
alive and taken of. a ~ t'4A giae
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. ta a, 5eBgsggo.
1t was generally believed that one woman had
persisted in the night and been washed of. .-4
Az to others, reports wera 30 conflicting that no
conclusion could be come TO about it,