Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-08-18


of any particular individual.
Signed by the jury.]
The operations at the wreck on Tues
day were continued, and resulted in the
removal of all that was left which was
worth bringing to the city. The whole
of the timbers were, in fact, raised, but
no more bodies were recovered. In the
location Immediately beneath, where the
captains office stood, quantity of gold
silver and copper was found. The coin
which 1t had composed appeared to have
been completely molten, and run into all
sorts OF shapes as it run into the water.
The force with which the Henry CLAW
struck the bank of the river must have
been tremendous. Some of the heavy
iron work OF which the machinery was
composed, was twisted into contortions
and rude shapes, as if it had been mere
WIRE. One of the connecting rods, as
large round as mans leg, was bent up
like a fish hook, and then broken eff
The boilers arc said to be in remarkably
good condition
The coroner of Westchester county has
but 70 names on his list of those who Pc
rished ; but according to the lists which
have been published, there appears to be
rs. The men employed by the coroner
were still engaged in dragging for bodies,
but up to a late hour on Tuesday evening.
no new discoveries were reported.
1t is said that Mr.. George Bell, of Al
exandria, Va, reported to be lost, was
not on board. Mrs. Bell, however, is set
down among the missing, and another
account tEun Of IL, 1 ~
her. The remains of Miss Smith, of Phi
ladelphia, have not yet been IDENTIFIED
VIM. b. Tuman and Catharine Whitman,
of New York, and Ransom Bottoms, of
Albany are also missing. The friends of
Hon. Stephen Allen have given 500 to
the two men who recovered his BODY
MIR. John Milligan was not aware that his
wife was on board until he read her name
among the list of killed She had been
on a visit to her mother, Mrs. Tompkins,
at Catskill. 1t is feared Mrs. T.. was al
so lost.
Mr.. G. +. Whitlock, his wife and hel
aunt, Miss Holmes, of New York, whose
bodies were among the earliest recogni-
zcd from the Inflated wreck, had been Ii
wing together for some five or six years
"a small but happy circle, remarkable
for the singular unity which pervaded
every event of their lives. OF the same
religious persuasion, Baptist they were
admitted member. of that church on the
one day. They planned together the OK
cursion which terminated SO fatally to all.
Their bodies were recovered at the same
time, recognized, and committed to the
one grave. 1t may be truly said of them,
that as in life they were united, SO in
death tEey were not separated.
A strange fatality seems to have at
tackled the family OF Mrs. Ianford, who
with her child, lost their lives on this me-
lancholy occasion. This is the third time
on which two persons of that family have
lost their lives on the water. Her uncle
and cousin, Mr. John Bayard and his son,
who owned a sloop, were drowned off
Nyack. Mrs. Hanford's father and elder
brother were lost twelve years since, on
their passage from Rio Janeiro Mrs.
HIS husband died about the samc.time.
Thomas Lemon, of Albany who was
passenger in the Henry Clay, is missing,
and there is little doubt of his loss. One
of the bodies already recovered, has been
recognized as that of the wife of Mr.. John
Milligan.
Miss lIillman of Troy, who lost her
life in consequence of the burning uf the
Henry Clay, was Il sister of Isaac Hill
man, the razor strop maker, of Troy, who
is at present in California After the de-
parturc of Mr.. Hillman for the gold regi-
ons of California;, Miss Hillman continued
the business of manufacturing strops for
Henry Smith, the famous and eccentric
zone more left" man. Miss Hillman was
on her way to New York, relative to her
business affairs with Mr.. Smith, and the
drawing up of her will.
In the midst of the fearful scene which
followed the running of the Henry Clay
on shorU, lady was remarked as rende-
ring every service to the survivors and
the bodies of the deceased ladies
brought on shore-composing the bodies,
and paying attentions of delicacy. She
was Miss Jeannett McAdams, of Yonkers.
A teamster named Peter Herring was al
SO very active in saving life, and in his
efforts had his hand and arm severely
burned. VIM. G. Alderman, Esq, has
won the gratitude of the sufferers, to
whom his house at Yonkers has been
freely thrown open.
The remains of Mrs. Fennell, one of-the
victims of the Henry Clay. arrived at
Wilmington, N. c., ON Monday night
Her funeral took place in the Methodist
Episcopal Church, on Tuesday and was
attended by a large cOncourse of per-
sons.
Neither of the officers of the Henry
CLAW, against whom warrants have been
issued, had been arrested on Tuesday
evening, with the exception of Mr.. Coll.
yer.
PRETTY Coon JoKE.-It is said that