The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1854-11-24

| bat with the darkness TO contend with, and
short-handed, it must be impossible TO take off
the rassengers-and many more must nevita-
ply perish from exposure during the dreary
! darkness that has now closed over them.
ELIAS Smith.
The Latest from The Wreck
SEVEN O'Clock, p M.-The ship remains in
the same position as before reported, broadside
to the sea, which runs mountain high, and rem
ders it impossible for the tug boats to render as
slstance. The sea is breaking over the wreck
and before dark we could see every available
space in the rigging filled with probably some
two hundred persons. 10 less probably than
seventy-tive have already been washed over
board, and from present indications grea,
many more viii be- hurled into the sea before
any efectual assistance can he rendered.
All the balls at the station were shot over the
ship without being able to send line on board
from the shore, except in one case, when life
boat was immediately sent out to the wreck, and
Capt. Henry and eight or ten others got into ii:
but 1t was Immediately capsized aud turned
completely over twice Capt Henry and four
others clung to the boat and succeeded in reach
ing the shore. Unfortunately, at the time the
life beat capsizcd, the cable from the shore to the
ship gave way, and there was then no remedy
bot TO send 10 another station and procure more
balls for the purpose OF throwing another line
over the wreck, and not an instant was lost in
sending to the nearest lite-boat station for this
purpose.
The ship is a perfect wreck, and there is not
the least hope of saving anything.
Should the heavy sea continue during the
night it is scarcely possible that more than a
very few OF the passengers now on hoard or
holding on TO the rigging can be saVed-and it
is not at all improbable that every soul will be
washed overheard before daylight.
All the passengers are Dutch and German,
and as there IS no one hear who understands
their language, we are not able to obtain from
those who reached the shore any information
in regard of the condition Of things on board
which undoubtedly is bad enough. =
Captain Henry is active and energetic in ef-
forts to extend his relefto his sufIerAg passrn-
gers and crew.
The ship went on this morning at about 7
O'Clock in dense fog.
A later despatch states that the ship was set
ing, and at eight O'Clock was nearly level with
the sea, which was then making a clean breach
over her, and it was not thought possible that
lilC iicSt-ll2Clo CbuId llOtt on iilGtii iDil9cI
second line had been thrown from the shore ac-
cross the deck Of the ship, but the pasSengrFs
and CREW appear to have been too much eXhauS-
ted to avail themselves of it, and when the last
messenger left the scene of the disaster, the gem
eral opinion was that the ship must 60 to pieces
very speedily. and in that case probably every
soul on board would be lost.
Early Yesterday afternoon, information reach
ed this city that large ship, name then un-
known, was aground about four miles south oil
Long Branch, on the Jersy thore. near to Sandy
Hook, and that she lay ina very dangerous Po-
siti0n.
Towards one o'clock we learned that this yes
sci was the New Era, lately built in Bath, Me, |
which had sailed from Bremen, with three hun
dred and eighty passengers for New York.
At the moment that this information was for
WaFdrd us all the passengers were on board.-
They were crowdng the deck, apparently in
great terror and alarm: but it did not then ap-
pear from the shore that there would be any loss
Of life, much less total Shipwreck, although |
the sea at this time was very :,igh, and no boat
from shore-not even strainer-couId com
nunicate with the ship.