The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-05-23

| Arrival ofths Adam Carr from 0lasgovw-An
Extraordinary Passage over the Atlantic
Thrilling Account OF Dreadful Dhlpwreck.
The fine packet ship Adam Carr, Capt Wright,
belonging to Messrs. Woodruff and Min
turns line of Glasgow packets, arrived yester-
| day morning from the Clyde. M
She made the passage in sixteen days-a speed
almost unparalleled in the annals of navigation
Our papers are not to the day of the sailing of
the Adam Carr, but we have received, by the
kindness of Captain Wright, the Glasgow
Herald of the Sd instant.
The Herald gives the following account of the
dreadful shipwreck of the brig Exmouth, with
two hundred and forty lives.
| from the Glasgow Herald Mays1
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on the shores Of Islay. being accompanied with the
most extensive loss Of life which has taken place the
intelligence brought to Glasgow Saturday after
last by three seamen being the only survivors of
castle who had been forwarded from Islay in the Mo
dern Athens steamer by Mr. Chiene the factor for Mr.
Exmouth Of 800 tons of which Booth of sunder
land was master, sailed from Londonderry for Quebec
| between three and four O'Clock, the morning Of
Sunday the 25th ult, with light southwest
| breeze. She had crew of eleven men, Inclusive
Or s% Of small farmers and tradesmsn with their
families who had turned their little all into money for
the purpose of escaping the famine and earning for
themselves home in the western world. Many were
females and children going out join their fathers and
protectors had already settled in Canada and who
beckoned those who dear to them across the
| Atlantic There also three cabin passengers,
young unmarried ladies of the middle classes of
at st. John New brunswick The vessel was registered
for 1851 passengers but AS two children count AS one
adult and as very large proportion were under age
the survivors of the wreck, who our informants
think that the total number of these fated emigrans
nfah fnta gfuta fxunh
The ship lost sight of the loom of the land about four
o'clock, Sunday afternoon. The breeze, which had
the day and about II p NJ, it came in terrific squalls
furled the fore and main sails The wind which had
been westward ut first veered northerly and the storm
the bolt ropes The crew then set the foresail and
spanker and commenced to bend two other top-sails
blown from the gaskets Previous to this the jib
had been slowed the arboard tacks board and the
ship was now driving to the southward and eastward
when the wind became northerly and where he would
have had ample for the purpose Of attain
ing harbor of refuge where he might repair DANA
ges, and replace the sails.
Shortly after this Monday forenoon, the long boat
unspped from the chocks by the force Of the seas
which successfully broke the vessel and in the
course of the same forenoon the bulwarks were stove in
with the same violence during the whole of Monday
night and Tuesday, and an indication Of the force Of
latter day the mainsa after being furled, was torn
from the gaskets by the storm blast While the crew
were setting the foresai it was blown from the bolt
ropes and the trysai mast unshpped and main ga
carried away which rendered them unable carry the
panker During this dreary time the pitched dread
seconds afterwards Keeling the trough of the the
passengers all below under Matches many of them
ness-but all were not 80. Some of them had fearful
of disaster and it would be difficult to
whether the parents suffered the greater agony from
the cries of their children pent up in the dark and
nosome hold, or from the innocent prattle which be-
trayed no fear or consciousness Of the unhappy fate
which was 80 soon to overtake them. Cooking, of
course, was out of the question; but the grown-up
people had heart to!be hungry and, moreover the
cooked provisions brought from Londonderry were not
yet entirely exhausted
About II O'Clock Tuesday night, land and light
the north west coast of Ireland and in the belief that
he thus had ample sea room in the course he steer
ing he bore along As he drifted the land how
and observed that the light flashing, instead
of stationary one, he became conscious of his
by bringing the ship farther to the northward
westward; and with the view of clawng' her of the
set and the jib half hosted The effort however was
Intellectual one; the ship soon got amongst the bro
ken water, and at half past 70 on wednesday morn
correct version of the impression the Captains
mind as to his postionand it is distinctly spoken to
by the two survivors have scientific result showsth
he must have been fully hundred miles out of his reck
onng; but perhaps it could not well be otherwise The
sun was obscured during the time Of this brief and
disastrous voyage, by black, driving clouds which dis
titled perpetual rains the moon was only through
was impossible that any observation could be taken
The light was In reality that of Oransa Oversay,
the point Of the Rhinns Runs Of say to the north
west Of the entrance of Lochindau and the land
and which the brig eventually struck the
part of the ironbound coast Of the island She went
ashore with all the sails already mentioned fully disend
ed and after striking dashed broadsde the
rocks, which to the height of the masthead She
struck violently against the rocks three times and at the
fourth the went by the and fell into
chasm of the rock An hour and half previously when
Captain Booth observed his dangerous proximity to the
shore he took his station in the mantop that he
personally keep lookout and how the land bore,
and from this place he occasionally his orders to the
As the brig struck John Cheat the mate,
and all the seamen, eight in number joined the captain
in the maintop, leaving the captains son, youth of
naming In the maintop about three minutes five Of the
went down for the purpose Of ascending the fore
top thinking that they would have q better change Of
time, Of the crew, named John Scott went out
upon the manyard with life-buoy his person-thus
leaving in the mantop the captain and three seamen
whose names are John Stevens VIM. Couthard and Geo.
Lghtford all belonging to South Shields. We have said
that the mantop along with the wreck of the mast
thrown rift chasm of the rock, and Immediately
afterwards Couthard, then Lightford and finally Ste
footing on the crags AS It was pitch dark at this time
the captain asked the men their and when they
had informed him he said It was their duty to assist
low the men, when wild dashed their heads
they chung to the but they enabled main
the had retired, they found that the captain and
all gone The mainmast had been broken into spln
ters by the fourth collision with the rocks and this
coiling had not only dragged the ship, but the
fragments Of the mast which adhered to her by the rig
ring further into the and thus cut the dense
Of human beings board every chance to escape
Had the wreck remained in the chasm where orig
na thrown from which the three survivors escaped
it might have been used bridge by the others; but
unhapply this last possibility of relief taken away
The which effected this fearful havoc must
also have prevented the five from reaching the
foretop from which they might have had chance Of
Gaping quarter OF an hour elapsed from the time Of
the brig striking until the three survivors got upon
the rock At the moment she struck and little prev
to it, about half dozen of the male passengers
standing the deck, occasionally asking the mate IL
there in reality any DANGER but the latter well
knew the pers of their position from the broken water
he answered them not or the three Young