The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-08-04

by it until aid reached them, fortunate
" before the line, which was on FIRE,
had become too weak to SUI port them.
But many others jumped irantically
into the water, and sank to rise no
more. A gentleman who was forward,
and who got on shore soon after the
vessel struck, says that not one of a
number Of ladics-somc with their
children in their arms-whom he saw
jump from the larboard side, were
savcd.-N y. Daily Times.
From the Albany Daily Register
Particulars from the Wreck.
We left this city in the II A. NJ.
train yesterday, and arrived at the
scene of the disaster at 3 II p. Nj.
When the train stopped-2 ~ miles
below Yonkers-the first 81 hit that
met our gaze was procession of men,
bearing with them to the baggage car,
thirteen confirms, containing the bodies
of some of the hapless victims Of the
disaster. Some were Of children, and
were carried by men in their arms; but
the most Of them were Of adults, and
were borne by four and six stout men.
When these were deposited in the bag
gage car, the train moved off, and We
at once proceeded to where the charred
wreck was lying.
On arriving at the spot We found not
far fom 200 people collected, many Of
whom were engaged i'll searching for
bodies with boats. hooks, lines and
graphing irons. We were told tina.
Forty had already been recovered.
There was noting Of tie boat above
the water but the boiler, the smoke
pipe, portions Of the machinery and a
very little of the hull towards the bows.
In running her ashore, She struck a
stone pier on the larboard side; but
FOX ih's she would have run Low on at
least 10 feet fun ther,a thus have en-
abled many to escape. As it was, her
bow plunged from three to five feet
deep into the Railway cmbankmcnt Of
sand and stones, and within ten .e,t Of
the track of the road, burying itself
several feet.
1t would have been scarcely possible
to have run the boat along side Of the
bank at this place. The attempt to
have done SO, with the still southcrly
breeze and a do)d lie, would hive Civ
IN The fir, line TO ei.vclIe tie whole
boat.
While we we're present, four bodies
were fshcd up with grappes-thrce
females and one male child. None Of
them had cen recognized up to the
time we left IL p. VI.
Net far from the wreck was picked
W a mass of broken baggage and odds
and ends Of wearing apparel. 1t was
mouruiul to see with what eagcrness
husbands, wives and children exanin-
ell every scrap; and when from time
to time some one recognized portions OF
the garments Of friends known to be
missing, their grief was heart rend-
lilP " Dcu ~.
Leaving the wreck We walked IN
the track of the Hallway a quarter Of
a mile and came to the spot where the
Coroner's inquest was being held
Here a spectacle was presented which
almost beggars description. Under
the iutiing bank. and within few rods
Of Mr.. FoRHEsT's Castle, lat Font Hill,
were pitched three large tents. un-
der the first were gathered ;he Coron-
er and his Jury, the District Attorney
of Westminster CO., G. WELLS, Esq.
JOIN CRIslItlD. Esq Justice ofPeacc,
Reporters Of the n. Y. Press, wit
ncsses, &C., &c.
The Inquest was in progress, before
the following jury: Geo. +. Conding-
ton, foreman, JAS. L. Valentine, w.
G Ackcrmsn, Isaac II. Pert, Geo. B.
Rockwell, John II. Williams Abraham
Knight ir., Walter Noren, Lewis Cos
tican, Henry Goats, Edward lie Fort,
Thos. Townshend.
Under the other two tents there lay
covered by leaves, branches of trees,
scraps Of clothing, Sc, the bodies Of
fomteca yictims-cight females, two
males aud four children. These had
not been identified.
Outside the tents and all around
them, were groups of people and piles
of collins.
Some of the POOR creatures who
we're in attendance, were frantic and
one man, German, who had lost hi:
wife and Ave children, was asking Of
every one he met, where were his wife
and his little ones.
Another man had lost his wife and
children, and was speeches. with az
ony.
Another had just recognized his wife
by diamond ling upon her finger, and
his cries were terrible to hear.
: y child, twelve years Of age, foun(
; both Of his parents stiff and cold il
death, and fell senseless upon theil
I bodies,
In the station house were gathered
d score of people, whose grief wa
too big for utterance and in thu
I midst of this awful scene, the boat
came ashore from New York. witt
? scores in search Of missing friends.
!, The place resounded with weeping
Il with shrieks, and groans and all un
: conscious-cold, CHASTITY, and stiff ii