New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-24
tn, wreck Of the elizabeth.


melancholy termination
We have already stated that Capt. Ha'sy was
Frustrated, eight days after leaving Legnorn' oy
disease which was regarded and treated as ieve''
BIZ, which ultimately exhibited itself IS snAii FOX
Of the mos, malignant type. He died oil II jus' !"
The vessel reached Gibraltar, and his remains were
committed to the deep. After short detention
in quarantine, the Elizabeth resumed her voyage
On the stb uIt. and vas long baffed BY adverse
v;pd.. Two days from Gibraltar, the terrible dis
ease which had proved fatal TO the CaPtaia' at
tackled the child of the Ossolis, beautiful boy OF
two wears, and for many days his recovery was
regarded Is hopeless. His eyes were completely
closed for five days, his head deprived OF all shape
and bis whole person covered with pus'ule'; yet
throush the devoted attention OF bis parents a9d
their friends, be survived, and at length gradually
recovered. Only few scars and red spots re-
NAMED on bis face and body, and these were dis
appearing to the great Joy of his mother, who felt
solcitous that his rare beauty should not be
marred at his frat meeting with those she loved
and especially her mother.
AT length. after month Of slow progress, the
wind shifted, and blew strongly from the south
their course, until on Thursday evening last, they
knew that they were near the end Of their voyage
Their trunks were brought up and repacked In an
ticipation Of speedy arrival in port. Meantime,
the breeze gradually swelled TO gale, which be-
came decided about 9 o'clock on that evening
But their ship was new and strong, and all retired
to rest as usual They were running west aud
supposed themselves about sixty miles further
south than they actually were. By their reckon
ing, they would be just off the harbor Of New York
next morning. About Fl O'Clock, Mr. Bangs, the
mate in command, took soundings, and reported
tweuty-one fathoms. He said that depth insured
their safety till daylight and turned in again. (Of
course, all was thick around the vessel, and the
storm bowling 6ercely) One hour afterward the
ship struck with great violence, and in moment
was fast aground She was a stout brig of 53l
tuns, FIVE years old, heavily laden with marble, &c
ard drawing seventeen feet water. Had she been
! light she might have foated over the bar into
twenty feet water and all on board could have been
saved. She struck rather sidewise than bows on,
osnted on her eide and stuck fast, the mad waves
making a clear sweep over her, pouring down into
the cabin through the skylight, which was de-
and permanently under water, the other frequently
drenched. The passengers who were all up in
moment, chose the most sheltered positions, and
there remained, calm, earnest and resigned 10 any
fate, for long three hours. No land was yet vis
ble they knew not where they were, but they
knew that their chance Of surviving was small in
deed. When the coast was first visible through
the driving storm in the grey light Of morning, the
sand. hills were mistaken for rock, which made the
prospect still more dismal The young Ossoi cried
little with discomfort and fright, but was soon
| hu,hed to sleep. Our friend Margaret had two
lfepreservers but one Of them proved unfit for use
| All the boats had been smashed in pieces or torn
away soon after the vessel struck, and while it
would have been madness TO launch them in the
dark if it had been possible to launch them at all
with the waves charging over the wreck every
moment A sailor, soon after light took Mrgarets
seryiceable life.preserver and swan ashore with i.
in Quest of aid for those left board and arrived
snfe bat of course could not return his means OF
deliverance.
By7A NJ. it became evident that the cabin must
soon 20 to pieces, and indeed it was scarcely ten
antable then. The crew were collected in the
the vessel having settled by the stern and the
sailors had been repeatedly ordered to go aft and
help the passengers forward, but the peril was 80
great that none obeyed. At length the second
a. ate, Davis went himself, and accompanied the
Italian girl Ceesta Psrdena, safely to the forecas
tie, though with great difficulty Margaret Ossoi
went next, and had narrow escape from being
washed away, but got over. Her child was placed
In bag tied around a sailors neck, and thus car
ried safely. Ossoli and the rest followed, each
yoy ed by the mate or one OF the sailors.
All being collected in the forecaste, il was evil
dent ,ha, their position was still most perlous and
that the ship could not much longer hold together
The women ere urged to Try first the experimsnt
of taking each a plank and committing them
selves to the waves. Margaret refused thus to be
separated from her husband and child. She had
from the first expressed q willingness to live or die
with them, but not to live without them. Mrs
Hasty was the first to try the plank, and, though
the struggle was for some time doubtful one, did
finally reach the shore, utterly exhausted. There
was a strong current setting to the westward 50
that though the wreck lay but quarter Of q mile
from the shore, she landed threefourths of a mile
| distant. No other woman, and no passenger, sur
wives though several Of the crew came ashore
after she did in & similar manner. The last who
came reports that the child had been washed away
from the man who held it before the ship broke
up, that Ossoli had in like manner been washed
from the fore-mat, to which he was clingingi bat
| in the horror Of the moment, Margaret never
learned that those she SO chung to had preceded
her to the Spirit Land. Those who remained Of
the crew had just persuaded her to trust herself to
a plank, IN the belief that Ossoh and their child
had already started for the shore, when jas, as she
wa. stepping down, great wave broke over the
vessel and swept her into the boiling deep. She