Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1852-04-17
Wreck or tho North America.

Tile North America sailed from Sa
Juan del Sud, OH the evening Of the %
ult. at II o'clock, and weHt ashore OH til
night of the 9th about fifty miles beIov
Acapulco, on the long sand beach wbiel
commences some seventy miles below
here. The night was bright moonligh
one, and the ship had been stsaming TIL
| whols dsy snd evening within almost ,
stones throw OF the shore.
The Captain says he went below at 0
and ordered tho mate 70 keep within sigh
of the beach, aud to call bim at IL.
At that honr Capt. Blethe6 came on
deck, and looking to ths land, snw the
mountains in the distance, lie completely
overlooking the low lands. Thinking
himself great distance from the shore,
he ordered her ote point nearer, standing
at the time ON the wheei-houss. In less
than twenty minutes after he stepped bn
deck the ship struck. The passengers
with crew Of ninety men, came on deck
and prepared 10 save themselves.
At o o'clock 4. NJ. Col Avery, = pnssen.
ger, was dispatched TO Acapulco, oyerlstd
distance Of abou. eighty miles, for ~.
sistance. lie arrived about o'clock the
next day, and in couple OF hours h bark
and 4 selloonet were dispatched 10 bring
up passengers, luggage and freight The
agent, Mr.. Guys, and 4. w. Rics, q. S.
Consul, Immediately started for the wreck,
and made the distance. mostly by night,
In fourteen hours riding.
The scene at the wreck beggars all des.
cription. From fifty to hundred tents
had been erected--some covered with sails
rotliers with costly carpets, and even with
rich drapories. The different tents had
slowed away In them, wines and cigars
Of all kinds, preserved ineuts and oysters,
kegs Of nice butter, and jars OF preserves.
All was waste, profuslot and confusion III
this particular.
1t was impossible to get anything from
her to tho vessels sent to her assistance
from the larboafd side Of the steamer, and
tIe breakers we're 80 heavy that no ships
boat could live in coming to or from the
shore. Under these circumstances the
passengers baggage was all safely landed
under protection Of the breskwh form.
ed by tbe ship; aud passengers baggage
and freight, were packed off as fast rs pos.
sibe on the baeks Of Mules
ALI the passengers were at Acapulco st
latest dates. Two or three schooDers
have been badly fitted up aud provlsioned.
and viii take away some three hundred
Of tho crowd as have money TO pay pass
age A few Of the balance hops to gs.
on to tho upward bound steamship.
The steamer. at the time OF the wreck,
had some $4,000 or Sc, 600 OH board. but
purser reports ii all stolen, with the ex.
ception Of less tl,an I'll 900. The agents
here say thatthey have 10 power from the
Vanderbilt Company to assist The desti.
tute or send them forward. There were
forty women and about one hundred child
rem among the passengers.
The bark Isabel, under the Grenadian
flag. was az Acapulco, March 1s,, with no
money or credit, with 130
American passengers from Panama, nine.
tentlIs Of them without dime. The Ia.
tive population would not render any aid.
and the whole OF the 600 destitute are
upon what few American resi-
dents there are here, and the contributions
of the steamers touching in.A-N. g. Pic.