Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1851-10-30
Particulars OF the wreck or the rr.,.,,-r
Monticello, On Lake Superior,

loSON1 y SiONns WIN lOO passengers,
and freight Of copper and SOME
fish. On leaving the harbor one OF
her wheels struck floating log, but
the accident was not deemed Of any
moment, and even after it was dis
covered she had sprung a-leak no
account was taken Of II until the
Captain saw the water was gaining
on the pump. Even then It was
hoped she could make Eagle Harbor,
about sixty miles off. Barrels, buck
cts, &c, were put in requisiIion, and
crew and passengers worked hard,
the vessel making great way under
heavy sail, witha fresh breeze.
After about three hours Of desper-
ate exertion, the wind and water
rising continually, the attempt to
reach Eagle Harbor was Abandoned
as hopeless. But it was then night,
the wind and waves ragged and roar.
ed, and the coast presented a mass OF
sharp, steep rocks. To face them
would be certain destruction, so they
determined TO wear out the night in
a death struggle with the rising wa
ter. The anchors were cast, and
with broken energy and blasted hope
the crew and passengers stood out
the struggle uatil day dawned, and
with the light, the anchors were
weighed, and as a last dread chance
the vessel was allowed to roll heavily
toward the shelving shore, amid the
roar of the elements. She walowed
helplessly toward land, the water
rising unchecked, until meeting a
rock she struck, and suddenly her
bulwarks were swept away and the
angry surge had her at its mercy.
This was the moment Of sternest
trial; nor would they perhaps have
been equal to it, had not the exhaus-
lion OF the previous night chilled
the spirit which would have been
fatal to them in the first temptation.
As it was, they waited the first ex-
pertinent OF the male in making a
line fast TO the shore. The men who
effected this perilous service were,
w. F. Westbrook. Esq, L e wis
Lucas, first, and William Bearing,
second mate. Those who awaited
their destiny on, board watched that
experiment with an anxiety which
nothing but the presence Of death
could awaken.
! More than once their little boat
disappeared, and with it those in
whom they had most trust disappear
ed also, the last hopes OF those who
were swung to and fro as if in the
Inst shuffles Of mortality. However,
the boat succeeded, and one by one
cargoes Of men, half dead with long
terror, were landed on the rocks,
until the last Of them were snatched
from that terrible agony OF fourteen
hours duration. But even here
death presented itself in an aspect
equally formidable. They we re
thirty-five miles from Eagle Harbor,
and cedar swamps, almost impossible,
intervened. With the scanty re-
mains of provisions that could be
obtained from the vessel, now in i'm
minent danger Of going every mo-
ment TO pieces, twenty two OF the
entire party started with the design
of hewing or travelling their way 10
that place. This party started al
noon, and travelling slowly, on logs
and under, through brushwood and
through swamp, they spent the en-.
tire afternoon in getting over five
miles. At night fall they bIvouacedi
and with a couple Of miserable fires
beside them, and as much food divi-
ded among them as would suffice for
one man, they shiYered away- as
wretched-a a night as ever tested hu,
man endurance. Next day they
|, proceeded with the return of light,
. and after a journey unexampled for
suffering, twelve Of the twenty-five
reached Eagle River, at 4 O'Clock
Immediately the Messrs. Mcknight
and Chamberlain dispatched boat
, with provisions. Thus food has
been supplied 10 those who Jagged
behind on that perilous march, just in
time for their preservation, and not
one OF the crew or passengers were
} lost. An incident of that journey
was tie discovery Of skeleton, The
t clothes and bones OF a wanderer
who had lost his life. inia similar en-
; terprise to that in which they were
engaged.
We abridge the above from a re-
port made out by Committee Of the
passengers, who testified to the
bravery, prudence and energy Of
Capt. Wilson and his officers, Mr..
Westbrook, the engineer, and some
, OF The passengers who distinguished
themselves throughout that fearful
scene.-TT Tribune.
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