Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-11-03


ed at Boston on Thursday morning, in the Piscata-
qua, Capt. Wendell, for Madras. Messrs. Tracy
and Little are members ofthe Madura mission, un-
der the care the American Board, and now re-
turn to field in which they have already spent
some years. Mr.. and Mrs. Scott will proceed
from Madras to Calcutta, and thence to Agra,
where they are expecting to labor under the direc-
ton of the Presbyterian Board Omissions.
Appalling Disaster on the Coast ofscotland.
WREcK OF THE BR1risH SHIP ANNIE JANE-THREE
HUNDRED AND FoRTY-EIoHT LIVES LosT!!
The English papers by the Niagara confirm the
brief statement heretofore made, of the total loss
of the ship Annie Jane, Mason commander, belong
ing to Liverpool, which was driven ashore on the
iron-bound coast of Bara Island, during the recent
gales, on the night of the 18th ut., when no few
er than three hundred and forty eight passengers
men, women and children, met with watery
grave. The Annie Jane was large vessel, and
sailed from Liverpool for Quebec and Montreal on
the 9Th of last month with some $50 emigrants,
most of them Irish families. The crew OF twelve
persons, with Mr.. Bell, the chief officer and 1O2
passengers were saved. We annex few partic-
ulnrs of the dreadful disaster:
At the time the shipstruck, al the officers and
crew were below, but there were also on deck
large number of male passengers, who held on oy
ropes and rigging, and with feelings OIL despair
contemplated their fate. Meanwhile, the great
majority of the passengers including all the %o-
men and children, were below in their berths, but
the striking of the ship gave them fearful waken-
ing. Many rushed on deck IN state oil naked
ness; wives clung to their husbands and children
to both, some mute from terror, and others utter
ing appalling screams and eagerly Shrieking, els
there hope?" The scene is described by the sur
vivors as the most agonizing which 1t could enter
into the heart of man 10 conceive. Alter the hrst
shock over the passengers ru: he'd TO lhe ooatS
thee of which were placed between the mlzen-
mast and the poop, and the fourth lay on the top
of the cooking house forward. The light boat
had already been lost. But the boats were OF no
earthly use, for they were all fixed down and Sc
cured, or lay bottom up. While the passengers
were thus clustered around the boats, and within
very few minutes after the ship had grounded,
she was struck by a offrightlul potency, winch
instantly carried away the dense mass OF human
beings into the watery waste, and boats and bull
warks went along with them. AT least 90 OF
our fellow creatures persisted by this fell swooP.
The wild wall of the sufferers was heard for mo-
ment, and then all was still.
The great majority of the women and children,
as well as some of the male passengers, rema med
below either paralySed by terror afraid that they
would be washed away in the event OF their COM
ing upon deck. But their time also had come
The frghtful humping OF the great ship, taken IN
connection with her cargo OF railway iron, must
have Immediately beaten the bottom out of her;
and while her fabric was in this weakened state,
another dreadful sea broke on board and literally
crushed that part of the deck situated between the
mainmast and the mizen mast, down upon the
berths below, which occupied by terror
ell women and sleeping children. They were kill
ed rather than drowned, as was fully evidenced by
the naked, mutilated, and gaShed bodies which
were afterwards cast on shore. The main and mz-
en- mas;s went at the same moment. This second
branch of the catastrophe took place within very
few minutes after the passengers and part oil the
crew had been swept away from the deck along
with the boats. The most of the remaining Seamen
and passengers now took refuge on the poop, which
was very high one, and each succeeding assault
OF the sea carried away its victim or victims. In
short within one hour after the Annie Jane struck
the Temaing stumps Of her masts went by the
board, and she broke into three pieces. An addl-
tonal number persisted at this assumptions and all
the survivors remained on the poop, with the eX-
ception of seven men, who had secured themselves
on the topgallant forecastle. The poop fortunately
foated well, and, as it was about high wafer, the
wreck was drilted inwatds by the wind and each
heaye of the sea, when it finally grounded about
O'Clock, A. NJ. The forecaStle, with the seven
men, came ashore much about the same time.
Such as were saved remained by until the tide
ebbed, when they waded ashore, the water taking
them nearly to the almpits. At daylight the bay
was strewn with dead bodies TO tile number oil
nearly three bundled, greatly dishgured, many of
ked. thereby showing how instant must have been
their death, and the fearful strength of the Waers
which in so short time made such havoc.
Only one child was saved. 1t belonged TO a hum
BILE Irish woman, who, with her two children, was
about to Join her husband in America. She strug-
gled hard to preserve them both, one on her back,
and graSping the other in her arms; but when the
ship parted the latter dashed into the sea- aud
the other remained.
None of the survivors estimate the loss OF life
at less than three hundred and fifty, and consider
it close upon four hundred souls. helatter would
be the case if five hundred individuals, including
children, were on board, as is generally believed.
Almost all the cabin passengers persisted, includ-
ing Captain Munroe, of Quebec.
FIREMEN's RroT IN PrTTsBURGH.-The Dispatch
gives the particulars of Firemen's Riot That came
off in the Smoky City day or two since. From
the accounts published, it was a very disgraceful
affair, and compares favoIably with the best riots
that they sometimes get up in the Atlantic cities.
The Dispatch says:
ga large proportion of the property destroyed
might have been saved had the flIemen exerted
as usual, and devoted their energies to-
wards putting out the fire instead of puinmeling
each other. Mr.. Irwin, who loses heavily by the
disaster states that it was with great difficulty he
got to save his warehouse, owing to the fact that
when carrying water to the building, but the fire.
men actually turned their hose upon him and those
who SO calamity assisted him. The members of
the American Company were driven from their en-
CINE, which was afterwards nearly wrecked by the
Fairmount boys. TIE affair, taken as whole, is
without patallel here, and we trust no efortsw
be spared to punish those at whose instigation it