New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-04-12

WRECK or CARE MAY NEsSEL-A HEART
BENDING CfrouNsrANcR-FwR LIVES Losr-By the
arrival = this port yesterday of Mr. "A Mburn, Bait
more pilot We have been made acquitted with al sd
venture. melancholy In It's results Ga the 3lst o
March the Baltimore plotboat COquettc, Capt Joseph
B. sable, with MessTs j 4 MlburD. John Hsney, TbOs
n Bolt Thomas Watts and Robert NJ Ling. pilots
board while cruising In latitude 80 IL. about sixty
miles from Cape Henry and shout thirty hvs miles
from land. fell IN With the wreck OF what they sup
poIcd TO be Iloop bottom upward. The water vas
here about twenty athoms deep. The small boat W A
launchct and sent TO the wreck when |, discover
I'd that she bore the name Of the Thomas Russell OF
Cape May Some OF them got on the bottom, for al
this time the after part floating well out a
wsier. While the forward part down, her
head BE- ng under. Mr.. Ling was on Tho bot
tom, and bringing bis head close 81 the plsnss. he
thought he heard = noiss notwithstanding again,
be assured that there were persons sive inside
With these gSllsnt men. il required bot moment 10
act. Rsps were given GA the bottom 20 inform those
inside that they were beard Axes and In
stsniy brought ard al hsnds went 20 work TO cut
through the bottom 20 those inside Ia short
time they could be beard speskipg hole being sde
the conhnsd air escaped very fast causing the vessel 70
settle and more They converted With thOse IN
side and Learned that there we're i've of them Time
being precious, they continued cutting fast as they
coud having the assistance, also OF stout colored
the cook Of the pilot boat The hole being cut zoe
man csns 10 u, but could not get out From bin they
learned that the name Of tho captain OF thu vessel
Brady, at least 50 II was understood. Efforts were
still made a. cut larger hol- 10 allow them egrrss
Inc vessel continued rctilng AZ tlt Tune thfrc na1
been drowned. The who had bis head out
dropped back. and be- vent In, he looked upon the
bright snf remarked this ia the lssi sun shall
ever see The Efforts Ut the pilots redOubrd.
bu. without avail the whole II those inside per.hng
fact did the vessel settle be- fore hole large enougn
20 get them out could be made. Every conceivable
tfi1rt msde by the pilots. which urged by
hearing the Efforts Of the drowning D. breathe and
sustain The ma Ives uAtil relief could b. al ,rded
They AL persisted together In few minutes sitter the
hole cut which slowed the air ~ escape and the
last beard from them were applications 10 the Great
Arhter Of events 90 have mercy on them and save
them While tha men were At~Ork The sea was break
Ing them. which greatly retarded their Oersions
II IL supposed BY the pilots that the vessel capsized
the 9Th 18th Of March and that the lost persons
had been confined about three dsys There was q ss-
we're gale Al that time. The opportunity for
lion with the ost brief that their names or
deed 90 intent were the pilots In their efforts tor
cue, that they dd not take time ~ make inquiries Mr.
Mburn Informs that In the OF bis experience
he never similar circumstance, and that the
events he witnessed 10 the few brief moments which
passed between the discovery Of the wreck and the per
ishing 0 her crew be efaeed from his mem
DRY. Al thai men could do done and with hearty
good will bat al effort unsvsi.ing We may sdd
here that the vessel sppesr-d 10 be anchor she
was steady, with the tide running By her II 10 sup
posed thai when she espsized her anchor and chains
must have out and brought her D. her present po
suon. Baltimore Sun, LTD.