The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1853-04-27
Later from California.
Arrival Of Tie Steamship Unitcd States
al Nep Orleans

Later from California.
Arrival Of The Steamship Undcd States
al New Orleans.
LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP INDEPEN-
DENCE AND 40 LIVES.
MarysriHc again Inundated. s., go, 900 in
Gold on the ieay.
NEw-ORLEANs, Saturday, April 90, 1853
The steamship United States, Capt.
Berry, arrived here to day in five and
half days from Aspinwall. She
brings but a few struggling passen-
gers.
The steamship Uncle Sam left As
pinwall for New York on the 18th,
with the passengers by the steamship
Cortes, which arrived at Panama in
IA days from San Francisco.
The steamship Georgia, from New
York, arrived at Aspinwall on the
18th.
The steamship Independence was
lost on the 10th of February, having
run ashore on the shoals off Margaret
ia Island, where she took fire and burn.
ed to the waters edge. Five hundred
passengers were on board. all of whom
leaped into the water and tried to swim
ashore, Of whom at least One Hundred
and Forty, and probably more, were
lost. Margaretta Island is upon the
coast OF Lower California, and is un-
inhabited
After striking, the Inlcl en- lcnce
backed off: but, finding eight feet of
water in her hold, Capt. Sampson or
derod the plot to run her on the beach
at a srot three hundred yards from
land. There the ship took fire, from
the intense heat of the furnaces, the
flames spreading rapidly and creating
the most frghtful CONSERVATION among
the passengers. a very heavy surf
was running. and all the boats of the
steamer were swamped in trying to
make the first trip ashore. TO AID to
the horrors of the scene, the fire reach
ed the powder magazine, which explo.
dcd With terrible force. shatterin5 the
steamers stern to pieces, and scatter
ing the fragments in every direction.
Many OF the passengers wcre blown
into tie sea, and others jumped in, and
were immc lately carried ont to SEA
by the strong current that was sweep
ing from shore. Those who succeeded
In reaching the shore were unable to
rende' an assistance to those strug-
ling IN the water, and were obliged to
remain passive spectators of immense
numbers of men, women aud children
perishing by fire and in the sea.
The number Of persons lost has
been varlously estimated at from one
hundred and forty to two hundred.
The ship finally swung around broad
side to the beach, when her coal also
took hire and she was totally destroyed.
The passengers who were saved
found themselves on an uninhabited is.
land without water, where they were
compelled to remain for ffty-six hours
in state of intese suffering. Finally,
by firing a cannon, they were enable
to attract the attention of some whal-
ing vessels lying in Magdalene Bay. a
few miles off, who came to their assis-
lance, with provisions, and finally took
them off.
The following are the names, as fai
as ascertained, of the passengers be-
longing to the Eastern States, who
were lost:
John Morris, ]. Jones,
George E. Laight, William Doyle,
William Leonard, - Hartman,
X. Mosher, j. Myers,
Mrs. Muffin, II. O'Neal,
T. 0. Berlee, C. A. Ward all NY.
Robert Taylor, Welsh,
johnson, of Boston. O. Hale,
W. S. Moulton, of Massachusetts,.
There were other New-Englanderi
lost, whose names have not been ascer
tanned.
The City of Marysville has been a
gain inundated by rise of the Feath.
er and Yuba Rivers, and much loss o
property had occurred.
The steamer California, which lief
San Francisco on the LIST of April, fo
Panama took down $2,23O, 900 in golc
dust, of which 100000 was shipped
by Page, Bacon &Co., and $3.50, 00t
by Adams X Co.