New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-14
NEW YORK TRIBUNE.


Tp{x,yess,ns Accident-Seven Lives Lest'
We learn from the Exchange Reading ROOM
Books that Yesterday morning, between AM anr
o eIock the schr Corneha A. Crook, CaPt. t
while oa The White Rocks, about six mics o ,e;g
this pe7t. saw q number OF oanal eo ,., MN
toward the shore having on board Oh ~ stress
bertf who were making $40 nrotty severe
Nssw hstanding it was blowing P s2hooner's
e,a,e rom the n T. at the tme' su in,ned the
T. a, r n,lV lowered and INTO - and
Yoote named Geo Smith, t"o J;atev pQshed
hy|iber oi CAPT Grant, who On hnard the canal
off 20 the assistance OF 'o scn;na eight of them
Sn ~ ~ ~ SYcceeded in rescuin9 foonar bnt
boats ana - returned to the schooner oIt
w,th wpon oct If getting on board toc poaI We
WIZ aed consigning TO watefy -,nt,
ns yyhom it had contained mcaonl6 Tue oJ
and The Captains brothef, "no '""' P1.'y''1
-hile IN the act Of saving others lac
VIII mn scLooner came into port with her GoiofF.
:. ton mast.s The canal boats had during ttle y
.isnce of the Storm broken from the steamer Ja-
n;a,a, which had them IN tow.
WE We learn from Captain Haired, OF the steamer
.Iuniata, that he left Havro de Grace about 7
O'clock on Monday night, having twenty one boats
), tow row. ali bound to Baltimore. About daylight
,aste,dey poornine, when off Moth Point, the
heavy gale which had been blowing all night IN,
cyeased in violence and in spite OF all MS ehor:s
~ nTevent il. nine of the boats which he had IN
tow broke loose and drifted toward the w hite
Rocks. r..ov % ,beee boats
"a 10, cantaing and cargoes, as follows; the
Il,tn Thomas Capt. Doyle, loaded with il i
~ n Miller. Capt Howser loaded with lUfn-
her. the Sarah, Capt. Thompson; Ocean GaPt
Seal Reuben r. Thagley Capt Clark' ana Tue
Farmer. Cant Rockfellow-the last thrce "eIe
josJed with coal The Juniata returned to the
,scene of the disaster yesterday afternoon and
lroneht up the boat Farmer, but was unable 10
aacesstain tie fate of the other boats.
we learn from Capt Grant OF the schooner
Carolne A. Crook, who 50 lumanely sent his boat
and crew to the rescue Of the unfortunate men on
hoard the canal boats, that his boat succeeded III
reaching only one OF the boats from ".licn ~ d.
taken seven persons, comprising the entire crews
of two other boats and a portion OF that OF ehe
third, who had abandoned their own and got on
board Of the one mentioned, under the impression
that 1t was the safest. There were eleven PER
sons in all in his boat when she sWalpeu-tHe
mate Of the schooner and the three hands' among
the latter Capt. Grants brother ana the SEVEN
persons rescued from the canal boat.
The names of the persons drowned were Geo
Smith, mate of the schooner, aged 81 years; Tier
nan Grant, aged Is years, OF Ocean County, ~ Ji
Capt Clark, Of the boat Reuben II. IhaSley,
married man, belonging to Sunbury, Pa; hdW
WiDgate, aged l8, belonging TO Captain Clark's
boat. and a lad named Jacob Botcher, the driver
Of the boat, both belonging to Sunbuty, Pa; Jacob
Reed, boy, driver of tile boat Ocean, and the Cap
sam of the same, named John Deal.
Capt. Grant informs us that at the time OF the
occurrence, an Eastern schooner was lying at an
Choir very short distance from his vessel the
captain of which paid no attention to his signal OF
distress. when little timely assistance would
have averted the dreadful calamity. Capt u.
also says that a large steamer from Baltimore,
bound down the bay, passed his sWamped boat
without making any effort whatever to save the
drowning men baltimore Amer. Nov ID.