Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1846-12-15
board, in order to tighten the vessel.

board, in order TO tighten the vessel.
About noon on Thursday, tie smoke
pipes, which were very large and heavy
were filst cut away, next the pilot-house,
and then the bulk-heads, SO as to give the
wind q clear sweep through the vessel,
and rendcr less surface to its attack.
The coloSs were hoisted halfmast; but
in the Mohegan's attempting some meas.
ures to 90 to her assistance were hauled
down 5y orders of Capt. Dustan, who
who knew that her efforts would be inef.
fectual. Thus the steamer remained all
Gay, the wind lulled, and hopes were rails
ed that ali dangers were over, but not long
after, the wind shifted two points, and
blew with more than previous violence.
The steamer continued to drift however,
and every thing looked terrible and hope
less.
The danger increased so rapidly, that
between 2 and o'clock Captain Dustan
ordered the decks TO be cleared of all
Merchandise and of every thing that was
in the way. Cases of boots, shoes, bar
rels of -four, stoves, &c. &C., including
one package said to contain $1,000 worth
of plate were thrown overheard. There
were six to eight thousand dollars worth
of lace on board, belonging to one of TIE
passengers who had previously said that
ne would give the whole to any one who
would put him safely ashore. This lace
was afterwards seen strewn along the
beach.
All these efforts however, TO save the
steamer were unavailing. No person
worked harder than Capt. Dustan, and his
passengers and crew, 1t was for life or
death. After these repeated and united
efforts had failed, all hopes of safety were
ever, and felt DESTROYS and anxious that
the steamer should strike the beach, 1t
was frightful sight, but the feelings of
Of those on boord had been wrought to
sucn = pitch, that reaction came over
them, aad they were resigRsd to their
fate.
We will continue with our palms,! par
Siculars.
About midnight she parted one of he's
cables, there being four out, one attached
to thirty hundred weight of furnace bars,
and others to anchors. After this the gale
continued to increase aud blew perfect
hurricane.
She was driven still nearer the shore,
but passed point that all expected she
would strike upon. She then drifted
about eleven miles more, making III all
twenty-five miles; which occupied about
forty eight hours, Of terrible uncertainty
and suffering. She then struck, stern
tirSt, on ledge Of rocks on Fishers Is
land. A tremendous sea threw her on to
the very top Of the ledge; so far up, in
deed, as almost to throw her over on the
ether side, 1t UGs the crisis in the dis,
uSter. The cries pere terrible and heart
rending in the extreme. In fUe minutes
after she struck, she acds TN pieces.
In these GUe minutes, at least one half
of those on board The Atlantic Das taken
from time into eternity. The screams,
the crash, the roar ofthe sea ,cas dreadful.
There were six females, tour children,
and two infants among the passengers.
All the females were drowned or crushed
TO death. Only one of the children was
saved, and he was the only one of the
family of which he was member. His
father, mother, married sister and young
or sister, and two young brothers, were
on board. The pooi little orphan thus
saved, and Thus thrown alone into the
world, is only twelve years of age. The
two infants were drowned, frozen or
crushed to death.
EAl this occurred at halfpast four o'clock
on Friday morning.