New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-04
CANADA.

AwfuI Steamboat Disnster-Terrible Coniagrafions
The Quebec Morning Chronicle Of the Both ult gives
the following chapter OF calamtes when occurred III
that place on the 18th ult.
"a o'clock was arush ofwnd which whirled the
dust into the air covered the surface OF the ~ Lawrence
in spray and lashed the water into foam The wind beng
westerly the vessels OIL the Pot naq greas u
fculiy in keeping their anchors Boats and timber when
had broken away from the coves were TO be seen adr
and the bark NOrder oundeed at her moorng at llD6t
Cove Tie ship sank about At o'clock and the accident
was observed from Durham Terrace IL Is said that
Of The hands are missing. The Norder IS Norwegian
vessel
is rumored also that boat with six persons on board
was capszed during the gale and that all persisted.
About the same time an awful catastrophe occurred at
Gmours Cove The steamer ST. Pierre, Of the ferry
boats sometimes employed in towing having put on board
Of the steamer Montreal from vessel the stream up
wards of go passengers proceeded 10 Gsur Cove 70
take barge tow and while preparing to do 30 her boil
e burst and out Of ten persons who were On board eight
perished Capt Barras, who stood over the boiler was
blown high into the air Mr.. Ierrien had his skull spht
omen BY piece Of the boiler and bis wife and two children
who stood by him were killed but their bodies were hardy
at all disfgured The other sufferers were hreInen and
deck hsnds, whose names we have not ascertained-
Of the two who were saved said to have beenfor
ward al the wheel and the other close aern attending 10
the two rope Both thrown into the water and were
saved by cipgng 10 fragments Of the wreck Inc vessel
went instantly down in deep water We learn tnat SIX
bodies of the dead lying in shed belonging TO the
Messrs Gmou and that seven, not eight persons nave
been killed Eight persons only board Of inc boat
Of whom escaped. One man ON board Of ths paIge;
which being taken in tow was killed " fragment y.
timber which fell upon him. The engineers BODY not YET
been recovered" 49, ~, su.
The albany Erening Journal publishes the following
extract Of q letter, dated, .n,, ~. ., ,os,
Il wrote you some days since IN regard 70 nIs "a:
woods in the town Of Westmeah Then the hai nsa noI
been told us More recent information shows that was
the most appalling and destructive coniAgraton which mas
ever visited the Canadas II swept IN Us MAD ana ness
ble through the Of Westneath Ross Baso
pembroke Bremy Horton Shear and the Islands Of Calu
met and Les Alumettes. .,....-
The tame were driven forward with great impetuosy
Hundreds OF famies-men, women and chldrsn-had 70
e. before the devouDg element with nothing of thei
nronerty saytd but their clothes and these often
burned upon their backs. Fortunately there were but
few lives ostoDy aged man having far learned
| nerisbed Many cattle, however, hogs, &c. &C. were
burned Mulntudes had 10 take refuge in the Muskre
River 10 protect their bodies; and point small
steamboat took board number Of families then
from pershDg bat the boat barely escaped intense
was the heat OF the burning forests esheE side OF h
i river
The country burr ed over extends 10 miles by 90 sn'
more than five hundred families left entirely destitute