New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-01-03
ENGLAND.
Awful and Fatal Disaster on Board an Irish
Sfenmer.

On Tuesday might reports reached Liverpool of a
terrible loss OF life which had occurred on board Of
the steamer Londonderry, plying between Sligo and
this port sud though the hrst accounts were strangely
incorrect and horrible, yet when the truth became
known IL was shown that the loss Of life had been
rather underss,ed while though no actual crime had
been committed the details OF the true relation were
not q whit the less narrowing and distressing than
those Of the fabricated story nrst Transmitted IL ~
pesrs that about four O'Clock the evening Of the nrsi
Of December the steamboat Londonderry len the bar
Dor Of Sligo There on board OF her three cabin
passengers number OF sheep and oxen, and shout $50
emigrants
TIE weasel was crossing 10 this port whence the
majority OF the unfortunate passengers intended 20 pro
ceed as emigrsnts 10 America Toward nisotisI =
heavy gale on aud at last blew with so much VIC
lence that shortly after midnight or rather toward
o'clock on Saturday morning. the decks were cleared
Of ell except the sesmen The s'eersse PASSENGERS
perhaps $50 IN number, were crowded INTO the lore
cabin men women aud children. and were driven be
low--driven cay, because several struggled sssns
those who forced them down the companion ladder
AsteT some difficulty, however. many remonstrsnces
and much opposition the poor emisran's we're cranmea
into the narrow compass of the fore compart
ment little more than eighteen feet long by eleven ieet
wide. aud seven feet high The space capable only
Of accommodating about forty passengers, ana here
nearly $50 OF both sexes hudded together ind.s
crimnaely the old and the young the robust snd the
sicsly. the adult aud the infant
Meanwhile. the sea running high IN the channel.
that the waves repeatedly broke over the steamer
Then II was that through the negligence Of those who
responsible for the lives the people on board
q measure OF nohncntaty convenience was adopted
which led 10 cstsstophe, the Like OF which hSs ony
occurred before in tbs notorious prison OF Calcutta
The companion the only aperture by which the fore
cabin received ventilation was closed and over the
com pAnion was nailed down piece OF tsrpaulin
This was at about midnight between Friday and Sasur.
dsy The resGl, proved to be only such s common
sense would tell every one WAS inevitable. The dizzi
meas and qaams Of kness were very soon forgot
ten In the uncomfortable sensations OF suiocsuon Efforts
were made force way out OF the confinement they
we're found - be unsvsiline shouts were raised 10
attract attention. they were drowned IA the roaring
noise Of the storm -.
And then according 10 the description oiihs lew sur
x,xoys epsued spectacle such sets the imss
al eyen the most morbid NJ defiance. The steamer
drove brsvey through the tempest while those VINO az
recsed her rensined wholly unconscious OF the fright
fal conflict for c and death which was then raging IN
her very entrss The trampog snd beating sounds
within the cabin rendered inAadoe oy tne taFoo
hing OF the pis,oas and the soeks and sroans OF the
sufferers ouy died away wiki the gale toward morning
Not Ill then were the sesunen awSre OF tHe Hsee'y
which had been eDscted under thcr feet
OaAps the one hundred and hity passengers ~ho nsd
Zen dfs~sn down the companion ladder lew hesrs
- scvsoSy.two were found 70 have persisted Men
~ ,rnen I'D little children. husbands and wives
ces and ot ers were hespei shout the foor OF tne
cabin In ds. ier sons with their clothes torn rom
their backs IN tSers>some with their hands ana
aces aoersted o. with their features iroddon into
mummy BY the In. e-shod brosEes of their fellow
susrcrs here father aexed Ia the arms OF As dssg h
ter there sister cn9sns tbs corpse OF her brother
ks,r counsenances black 'storted with the conya
,e oveY,duced BY sudccakion. The following Ia de-
ru on ~ 2st& scene which nss The eye OF the
Va -ssassr, who ha1 4 last forced his