The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-08-26

COLLISION AT SEA. We had barely time
and room in our last paper to announce the
collision oftwo vessels at sea, and the number
OF persons who found watery grave Oh that
terrible night. We now give the most
important particulars, as found in the BoS-
ton Traveller of the goth inst. Such &C.
counts will touch the sympathetic cord ofeach
poison possessing a human heart.
Ship Shanunga at this port on Monday eve
ming from Liverpool, reports that on Monday
morning the 9th inst, at one o'clock, in lati-
tude Al 25, longitude IS 80, the weather
being toggy she came in contact with the
Swedish bark Iduna, from Hamburg for New
York, with two hundred and six persons on
board. The Iduna sunk IN about half an
hour. Immediately after the collision the
Shanunga's boats were put out, and with
one boat from the bark picked up thirty fou r
persons only. One hundred and seventy
two persons including the master, Capt. Err
nest Andrcas Moberg, were lost.
Capt patten came ashore this morning from
the Shanunga, which was anchored in the
stream. CaDt.Patten is wholly incapacitated,
from the depth of his feelings, from entering
into any details at present relative to this mel
ancholy event. He says that no statement
could cXaggerate the horrors Of that awful
moment.
All the survivors that were saved were
picked up from the surface of the water One
cause why so few were saved was that al
most every one ofthem had, when the cry
went round that she was sinking seized their
belts Of gold and silver and tied them around
their waists thus those who had attempted
to save their gold lost both life and gold being
unable to sustain themselves until the boats
could reach them.
The survivors, being entirely deprived
Of their property by this sudden occurrence,
were brought on board the Shanunga in a
state of complete dc5titution. Capt. Patten
and his mates have done everything in their
power to render these unfortunates comfort
able, until their arrival here should enable
him to state their case to the charitable of this
and other cities'
We hear of one case of peculiar distress
A little girl - years old. now on board the
Shanunga, by this sudden calamity has lost
father mother, brother and sister. Many
families who came from the same village in
the old world, and who anticipated settling to
gether in some chosen spot Of the new are
thus separated forever
1t is estimated that something like $50,
600, or even 500, 600 in specie belonging to
the emgrants, went down in the vessel, or on
the bodies of the lost. One individual lost
$4,000 The hold of the vessel was full of
cargo, destined for N. Y. and perhaps insured
there. The vessel was probably insured, if
at all, in Europe"
We are happy to be able to say that a most
generous sympathy is manifested by our citi-
zens, for these untortunte people, and that
the subscription at the merchants Reading
Room, already amounts to nearly $500
The little Swedish girl mentioned above
as the only survivor of a large family has ex
cited somuch interest among our kind heart
ed citizens that several gentlemen have OK
pressed their willingness to adopt and educate
her. She is at present, in the family of Capt.
Patten.