Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-08-26
Frightful Steamboat Collision
Reported loss of tsoo or three Hundred Lives.

Reported loss of ttco or three Hundred Lives.
Buffalo, Aug. 20. We have just received
accounts of frighful collision on lake Erie
at about two o'clock this morning, between
the steamer Atlantic and the propeller Og-
densburgh, by which it was reported that
t,co hundred Ines icere lost
SECOND DEspATcH-1l A. VI. A collision
between the Atlantic and Ogdensburgh oc-
CURED near Lockport, and with such force
was the former struck, that she went down
in few minutes, with all on board. Ii is
impossible at present to get anything like a
correct list of the drowned, or the number,
though it is known that al least 200 are lost,
and perhaps a still greater number-one
report says $50. There was large amount
of money on board belonging TO Western
express company, which was also lost.
THIRD DESPATCH. Erie, Aug. 90. The
steamer Clinton has returned from the wreck
of the Atlantic. She reports her entirely
disappeared and sunk ia 25 fathoms of wa
ter. The boat belonged 10 Messrs. Wards,
owners of the Caspian lately lost at Cleveland.
She was valued at $4,000, and not insured.
BUFFALO, Aug. 81. No further names of
cabin passengers either lost or saved have
ascertained. Nine of the crew and about
twenty Of The cabin passengers are known
TO be lost.
Capt. Petty of The Atlantic, while lowering
a life boat, fell distance of eleven feet into
the boat, striking his head and cutting it
badly. He was preciptaled into the water,
and supposed TO be lost but was picked up
10y boat from the Propeller, after clnging
fifteen mnutes to floating pieces Of the tim
Der. He now lies in very precarious state
in this city. MIR. Dana, who was lost, was
very efficient in saving the lives of passen-
gers, and exhorted them TO cling to the life
preservers when in the water. When the
bow went down, he took settee and plunged
overheard, but at the same moment some
some twenty or thirty emigrauls leaped over
upon him, and he went under.
The last persons taken from the boat were
Mr.. Givan, clerk of the boat, and Mr.. Buell.,
first engineer. The steamer had then sunk
all but her stern, and they, with some Hi
nois passengers, were clinging TO Il rope at
taclIed to "a floating mast, being up TO ;heir
shoulders in water.
As soon as the shreks of the drowning
passengers were hushed, the voice of a lit
tie boy was heard, and it was then first dis
covered that child about eight yeas old was
also clnging TO rope a short distance off.
The little fellow talking to himself was say
Ing-O! | can't h0lu on much longer. Ii
papa was here he would hold me up A
man from Illinois, fine powerful fellow, inn
mediately moved along the rope and seized
the boy as he was about 10 sink. He held
him for some time aud called out to iivan
TO come to his relief as he was nealy ex-
haused by the weight. Givan made an at
tempt 10 reach him, but in vain. AT that
moment, the boat of the propeller, loaded TO
the waters edge with rescued passengers,
passed, and Givan hailed and enIreated them
10 save the boy Mr.. BIodgett, first male of
the Atlantic, who was on board, jumped out
aud swan TO the rope, took the boy off, and
returned TO the boat with him. lie was thus
saved. The little fellow was from Massa-
chusetts, aud was with his uncle, who was
on board the boat and was drowned. Ills
name was not recollected by the clerk. The
next boat from the propeller took off the
clerk, first engineer, and The Illinois passen-
ger.
The passengers at Erie held meeting
last night, aud passed resolutions, thanking
God tor their preservation and safe deliver
ance, and exculpating the officers of the At
lantic from all blame.