New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-03
CANADA.
Awful sfear
Awful Steamboat Disaster-Terrble Conhagration'
The Quebec Morning Chronicle OF the 3Oth ult gives
the following chapter Of calamties which occurred in

a,vfuI Steamboat Di.aster-TerribIe Conaag grafton.
The Quebec Morning Chronicle of the Both ult. gives
the following chapter Of calamltles which occurred In
that place on the 18th ult.:
Al "a O'clock there was rush of wind whirled the dust
high into the air. covered the surface of the ST. Lawrence
in spray and ashed the water into foam The wind being
westerly the vessel off the Point Levi shore had great diff
fuy in keeping their anchors. Boats and timber which
had broken away from the were to be seen adr
and the bark Norder foundered at her moonngs AZ loo
Cove The ship sank about Al o'clock and the accident
was observed from Durham Terrace II is said that some
Of The hands are missing The Norder Is Norwegian
vessel
is runored also that boat with six persons board
was capsized during the gale and that all persisted.
About the time awful catastrophe occurred ~
GlmOur's Cove The steamer 81 Pierre one oil the i-rry
boats sometimes employed in towing having put on BOARD
of 1.-THE steamer for Montreal from vessel tho stream up
wards Of 29O passengers proceeded TO Gsur love 10
take barge in and while preparing to do so her boil
or burst and Of persons who were on board eight
persisted Capt Barras, who stood over tne ooher WAS
blown high into the sir Mr. Terrier had his skull spill
open by piece of the boiler and his wife and two children
who by him killed but their bodies were hardly
at all disfgured The other sufferers We're bremen and
deck hands whose names We have not sscertained
Of the two who saved SAID to have beentoE
ward AT the wheel and the other attending -
the two rope Both thrown into the water and were
by clingmg TO fragments OF the sTerk Inc vesse
went instantly down in deep water We learn that SIX
bodies of the dead are lying IN she'd belonging 10 the
Messrs Gmour and that seven not eight persons have
been killed Eight persons only were on Djard OF the BOAT
Of WI ON two escaped One man on board ul tue oars'
which was b, ing taken in tow was killed by fragment OF
timber woich fell upon him The engineer body not yet
been recovered
The albany Erening Journal publishes the following
extract of a letter, dated
MONTREAL, MAY, 81, 1853
wrote you some days since in regard to hre 10 the
woods Ia the town of Weimesth Then, the hif hai not
heentod US More recent Information shows that II was
the ost appalling aud destructive cOnagrton which has
ever visited the Canadas. II SWEEP, IN H. mad and rres
tibe career through the oSns Of tneatb Ross Btgo
Pembroke Bremy Horton Slear and the Islands OF Caiu
met and Les Aliumttea.
The flames were driven forward with great impetuosy
Hundreds of families men. women and clIdrcn-ad ~
flee before The devourIg element, with nothing OF tlsir
properly saved bur their clothes and these were often
burned upon their backs Fortunately there were Dat
few lives osiobly aged man ha ing far A. learned
persisted. Many cafde. however, hogs, &c. &c were
burned sIulnudes had To take refuge in the Muskr1t
River 10 protect their bodies aud ut point sm Ill
steamboat took board number ot families 10 save Oh IN
from pershpg but the boat barely escaped intense
was the heat of the burning forests on e;er side OF the
river.
The country burr ed extends 20 miles by 90 and
more than five hundred families left cnt rely destitute
Even the seed saved for planting is gone Meetings are
being held various points 10 relieve the sufferers Inc
Town Council Of this city have set apart $50. and pr
waite subscriptions have already reached 1890.