New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-27
The Wreck MT Fire Island.


and this was all, although every exetton had been
made by severs friends and relatives of the parties.
Still hope ia not yet abandoned, aud will not be
until the search has been complete ia the portions
of the wreck yet under water and not broken up
There seems, however, reason 10 fear that some of
the missing bodies mey already have come ashore
beenplundered Of the vaQables upon them aud then
buried in the rand in order 10 conceal every trace
Of the robbery. In that case there is hardly a
chance Of any thing being heard from them, al
though every endeavor viii be employed by the
revenue officers to recover whatever has been
stolen. For this purpose Hugh Maxwell, Esq
Collector Of this port, accom- panied by several Off
Gers repaired 10 the scene Of the disaster yesterday
We learn that the report that the mortar was
vairly fred toward the wreck in order 10 carry
rope over it, is erroneous, it not having been dis
charged at all Indeed there was only one suita
bic shot at the place, and this was reserved as a
last n eans of rendering aid, until aid was nefec
iual. Had it been properly fred, it could scarcely
have failed TO reach the ship, the distance being
very short 1t lie certain also that the fact OF the
wreck was know TO the people on shore very ear
ly on the fatal morning Of tina sailors Of the
ship testify that the first thing they saw on the
shore after daylight, was wagons carrying off arti-
cles that had already been Hoated to the beach
There is no doubt that good haul was thus made
by the pirates before they gave any alarm. And
when given, it was more than useless, owing to
the miseraby inefficient system or rather no sys'
tenn existing for the life-boat The nearest life
boat is some five miles off, and no means were pro-
vided to convey it to the spot Could it have been
sent for soon after daylight aud got there by
O'Clock, before the tide and the storm grew To
i.s last destructive fury, every soul on board
the vessel might have been saved. Our In
Comant states that the people in the vicinity often
exclaimed in bis hearing that had they known that
any such interest was taken in the lady on board
as has since been manifested the result would have
been otherwise. They told him also that the con
duct of the parties saved from the British ship
Minerva which went ashore their beach not
very long since, was not calculated to produce ex
IRENE exertions in behalf of the present sufferers.
Then several men toiled all day in the lifeboat
rescued men and their clothing, built firesfor them
TO dry themselves and did for them everything in
their power without so much as being thanked
for it,
Ii is evident that the entire system on the Coast
needs reforming. 1t will not be enough to hunt up
the robbers in the present case in order to ponish
them, without institutiDg some arrangement by
which it shall be for the interest Of the rude popua
ton in such places to aid to the utmost the hapess
strangers flung by the storm upon their sands 1t
iii not do to call ourselves civilized people and
leave life end property thus at the very entrance o.
our metropolis opposed to the fearful chances
which we now see attend them. There must
be ADEQUATE inducements held out TO the jewellers
on the Coast to save both from the elements rather
than to Wait the plumber that they may other wise
offer to their ignorant and interruptions greed.
There must be more life boats, every one provided
with competent gangs Of men. Why, we are told
that there is but single life bost on the whole
thirty miles Of Fire Island and that without any
sular crew or any recognized Commander This
is Ct piece with the apparatus for sending out
line to a shipwrecked vessel-n mortar, bat only
one shot The whole speaks terrible condemna
ton on somebody, everybody, who could or
should have seen to a matter SO important. There
hts been gross neglect and life, whose value can
Lot be made up, has been lost in consequence Ii
must not be SO longer.
We are torry to lesrn that the prospect OF re-
GOV erirg Powerl' statue is small The sea has not
been quiet enough to so out to the wreck till yes
terday, ard we have not heard the result Of the
Investigations made but it Is feared that the mar
bic slowed between decks will prove to have fall
en- through upon the contents ofthe hold, wherethe
statue was, and thus to have SO covered the latter
with heavy mass as to render it inaccessible.
The body Of Madame 0ssois child has been
di,in,erred by her relatives, and will be removed
20 Massachusetts for final burial.