The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-05-22


and patched calf skin boots patched white cot
ton socks black silk cravat In his pocket New Jer-
sey Daily Sentinel of May 10. Small on the back
of right hand; dark brown nearly black hair; appears
TO be an American.
No s. man feet ga inches, about As years Of age,
light brown hair light prominent eye scar ON the right
side Of the mouth to the chin Cotton and worsted
sack coat black cloth double breasted white
lin shirt false bosom had two pairs of pants Of German
manufacturer outside grey cloth shirt marked A. J. in
red; dress generally of German manuac ture had a
paper partly written and partly printed in German;
Springer.
No 0. female, apparently German, about 80 to IS
years OF age straw bonnet plain ribbon; dark cotton
dress full cheek bones; had paper containing the
name Of John McGran Johnson Place, Foster street.
Liverpool German thick woollen and black stock
ings about feet high swartby complexion.
No. TO- Mrs. Noble wife of General Noble.
No H. Elizabeth Carson, (Scotch) aged IT,
No II auckland "a child
NB-The last three the bodies on which the in
quest was held at Newburg
At half past FIVE o'clock yesterday, (Monday1 it
found in the Empire, oil boys. This makes II
bodies found in all The evidence at the inquest to-
day is for the most part the at the other in
quest, and the same witnesses
Three Of the youths found this morning are named
Ladd from Connecticut and were going to Illinois with
their mother. fourth boy has not yet been found.
The two other children are about eight nine years
OF age-poor apparently and emigrants.
CONTRACT TO RAISE THE STEAMER.
McssIs. Sturgess and Boardman, of New York, have
contracted to raise the Empire for $4,000.
CoRoNER's INQUEST AT NEwBuRG.
NEwBURG, Saturday, May 10, 1S4o
Lew SMITH Qhe pilot,) was the first witness exa-
of the accidents the first time the schooner she
was in ~ f. direction and the Empire was heading
little to the west shore; the schooner had the wind
S. f.. blowing good stiff breeze; should think the
schooner from so to 100 rods from the steamboat
when first saw her coming very fast; we were going
on moderately was satisfied it would be impossible to
get under the schooners stern from the way the two
vessels were heading, when first her. the only
remedy for to stop and back as quick as posi-
BILE, and tell them to go about; If had undertaken to
60 under her stern, must have right in her.
stopped her and backed her immediately: the minute
stopped her. was satisfied She would sink and immc
diately after she struck sent man down into the
cabin to see If she was making water he returned and
SAID she was then sent two men to tell the passen
gers 10 get out as soon possbe stayed the upper
deck with bawling aud children the boat went
was up to the promenade deck in an hour and a half
after she struck the very instant saw the schooner
slowed the boat; think the schooner struck US near
the forward gangway; my signal was answered imme-
diaely; don't think the Roadway of the Empire
iry done when she was struck called to the schooner
to put about heard them say something on board
the schooner, but did not know what they said;
think they heard me; should not call the nigh.
dark there we're flying clouds; | have followed the
river twenty-five years; if had steered more to the
westward, she would have struck us amidships; the
custom Is to slow when approaching any vessel when
there danger ola collision and if the danger contn
ucs, to stop think tho Empire the best boat to
stop and reverse, ever saw; the engine was backing
but the boat not; the tide about slack water
told the ladies that came deck, that they
cure, and that they had time to put their Clothes
i
been pilot on board the Empire when she struck
sloop once. and pilot on board the Albany when she
ran into sloop was also pilot of Burdens boat when
run her in dam; the Empire ran pier some
three ago; could stop the Empire and back her
forty rods in two and half minutes at the outside
oftentimes landed with the boat in less than minute
and half; the schooner in the neighborhoDd of
100 rods when saw her. her sails were edgsways it
would take her only one and half minutes to come up
to us.
Peter Davis, Henry Batchclder John King, and Hem
ry Wiltsc, were then examined, but their testimony
was not important. 1t merely confirmed that of the
the preceding witnesses
Ezekiel Jennings, Jackson Grggs, and Christopher
Schroeder fishermen. who were engaged in fishing. in
their boat close by the two vessels when the accident
happened, deposed that if the steamer had sheered
much to the east as to the west she would have cleared
the schooner. They picked up four men.
Richard Robinson, captain Of the schooner, James
A. Dumopd, and another hand, (therc only three
board in a testified that they lacking to the
westward in the middle Of the river when they first
saw the steamer, at a half q mile distance; got
warming; kept on their course expecting the steamer
to 60 under her stern, according to the rule. The
schooner was laden with lumber.
This closed the testimony.
The verdict published In Yesterdays Herald
der the telegraphic head.
INeUEsr-sAME DAY
Mr.. W. II. B. Churchill Of Fishkill, Duchess coun-
ty held another inquest on Saturday, at that side
of the river. The evidence was to the effect
at the one held by MIR. Parmenter Of Newburg twas
adjourned till Monday.
NEwBuRc, Monday, May 81, ls49.
JONES A. DuMorD, who was at the wheel of the
examined to-day. He deposed that the Noah Brown
full of timber to his neck made the last tack
ten or fifteen minutes before she struck the night
was fine the first he knew about the steamer was
Captain Robinson crying out "Look out, that steamer
will be into us did not let go the Wheel but stepped
up onsthe tier to the steamboat the wind by
E. and the schooner sailing at the rate Of four or
five knots hour; heavily loaded she tina. the
scuppers were six inches above the water the captain
him; he meant to put down the helm hard; witness
did 50; # the order had been hard up the steamer
wheel down when the collision took place; was
quite sure the schooner would fill; 1t Is the Gus
S o5 Wen Ss nt to
the steamer and schooner shot into the northwest
considerably after the collisions heard voice board
Of the steamer tell them to board Of the schooner
heard at the time somebody say the steamer
filing did not think she then filing; that
saw came board then; afterwards about one hun
dred came on board; they came from the promenade
deck; heard voice in the steamer before the crash
took places did not here there Is the Empire coming
damn her, glue her hell" did not hear any say,
"there's the Emprewe must look out for ourselves'
If he had lued the collision might have been avoided;
lad he got the order q minute sooner he could have
done SOL In minute two after she struck somebody
cried out The steamer Is sinkiugn and the passen-
dercd down the rails; probably 100 passengers on
board heard no call from the steamer till the collision
occurred.
GEonor Hoorrn an Englishman who had Just arriy-
cd in the Canada day he took his passage in the
Empire depocd that he had retired to bed in the lower
cabin arboard SIDE and had time to dress after the
self he afterwards thought they all would be lost.
JOHN Rom, OF Glasgow. dcposed to similar fact as
regarded himself, except that he had been longer
asleep and the ankle deep side of the
cabin He went down again after he first up, and
nobody in the cabin.
EpwARp LANE, boatman board the schooner, cor
roborated the testimony of Dumond.
Captain RoBSsoS Of the schooner, deposed that she
beating, at the rate of knots hour, to wind
ward of the time; did not issue order from to
minutes after he the steamer; his first order
to put u.s. which means to put her away from the
" he he
helm; heard no cry from the steamboat thought she
would have astern; that is the custom
GEORGE BuoRLANp then dcposed to the loss Of two
children; he is railroad engineer residing in Troy;
the water was knee deep when he left the main deck;
he got separated from his children.
CHARLES LIVINGSTON, who has been many years
pilot and captain, deposed that 1t not the custom
for steamers to astcrn Of soops schooners
ing
captain HIRAM GrLLEsrIE, cxamined-IIas been
pilot and captain since 1877 is now Captain of the
John Mason Is acquainted with the law Of steamboats,
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