New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-10-20
Loss OF the Arctic.

Loss OF the Arctic
ADDITIONAL pARTrcuLARs-THE FRENCH PRO-
pELLER vEsTA.
We find the following further particulars Of
this catastrophe in the NewYork Times Of the
18th. II viii be seen that the dispatch we yes
lterday published in regard to the identity of
the propeller which struck the Arctic was
correct:
Additional particulars of the loss of the Arctic
were received in this city yesterday Thelatest
Intelligence is confrmatory of the leading facts
already published, but we have the satisfaction
of being able to announce that the loss of life
is considerably less than was at first reported.
Doubts still exist, however, in regard to the
fate Of three boats being as yet wholly un-
known Three others are accounted for. The
number of lives saved is one hundred and eight.
The number on board, both crew and passen-
gers was 800. Upwards of $50 remain to be
heard from though it is impossible to say how
many Of them have met a watery grave. The
fate of Mr., Collinss family has given rise to
i many conflicting accounts. 1t is to- be feared
that none Of them, with the exception, perhaps,
of Miss Collins, were saved
The vessel which came in collision with the
Arctic is ascertained to have been the French
steam propeller Vesta. She arrived at st.
Johns, Newfoundland, on the Both Of Septem
Der, three days after the collision, in q shat
tered condition. HerIbows and foremost were
damaged to very great extent, The names Of
| the parties from the Arctic who were on board
of this vessel have not reached us the only in
telligence yet received being q brief photographic
dispatch from Halifax, between which point and
Newfoundland there are very limited means Of
communication. The latest dates from st.
Johns are to the 4th inst. Unless by chance
arrival. any further news Of these thirty-one
survivors must be received upon their own ar
rival here. Z
All the passengers and crew who arrived at
Halifax, as reported yesterday, have left that
port for Boston, by the Cunard steamship
Europa. ~
| Three of the life boats which left the Arctic
on the 27th are satisfactorily accounted for
but three others remain to be heard, from.
Those which were picked up, or exceeded in
reaching port, are the following
/. The sixth boat, containing thrtytwo persons in
Guiding Mr. George H. Burns, picked up by the bark
Huron and eighteen Of the party afterwards transferred
the bark Lebanon BY which vessel they arrived at this
port The remainder had not arrived at Quebec whther
the Huron was bound) at last accounts They are how
ever undoubtedly safe board the Huron Total saved
here 80.
q The boat in command Of Mr. Baalham second officer
of the Arctic containing wentysx persons arrived safe
| ly at Cape Race. Total saved. 49,
containing afer being reeYed nineteen persons Taken
in charge by Mr. Baaman, and also taken into Cape
Race. Totaleaved, 49,
| These are all the boats of whose safety we
have any tidings. Three others are to be heard
from, and the loads of two of these are unknown
One boat, in charge of Mr., Gourley, first officer
OF the Arctic, put off in aid of the Vesta before
it was discovered that the Arctic was injured,
and could not afterwards return In this boat
. were the boatswain Of the Arctic, and four sea-
men. Total 6-fate unknown. Two boats were
4 nearly filed with ladies' No trace has been
found of them ,..4, tzy=
4 To the list of the persons saved, however, we
are now enabled to add the following:
l. Thirtone Of the Arctics crew picked up at sea by
the propeller and taken into ST. Johns. Total 81.
This gives an aggregate of one hundred and
| eight rescued. Estimating the utmost capacity
of the two life-boats at fifty persons each, and
4 assuming that they were both filed, we have
total OF one hundred persons who may have
4 been saved by some passing vessel, and these,
with six on Mr.. Gourley's boat would make q
total Of one hundred and six persons for whose
safety there is still some chance The remain
der, it is to be feared, are gone. McCabe's
statement is, that seventy five persons were
washed off the raft on which he had taken
refuge, are were not afterwards seen. 1t is
certain that he was the only person taken
up when Dorian's boat returned from the HUI
ron. We are, therefore, compelled to the me-
lancholy conviction that the loss of life is not
| less than one hundred and seventy, from on
board the Arctic alone. If to this number we
add thirteen lost from the Vesta, the total loss
is to be estimated at one hundred and eighty
nine persons
Mr.. Burns, dispatch bearer, stated to us last
| evening, that at least one of the missing boats
was filled with ladies when cast off from the
Arctic, and that this fact impressed itself par
ticularly upon his mind from the circumstance
| that French woman was seen pulling an oar
There were but few men on board this boat, and
those who were there appeared to be passen-
| gers.
The telegrahic dispatch received yesterday
from Halifax, is as follows: '5'
HALIFAX, Oct. %.
! We have received Newfoundland dates to the
4th inst. The French screw steamer Veeta ar
rived at st. Johns, N F., on the 30th ult, with
her foremost and bows shattered to pieces, she
being the vessel that came in collision with the
ill-fated Arctic. She had on board thirty one
Of the Arctic's crew, which she picked up at
the time Of the catastrophe. The Vesta lost
thirteen Of her passengers in the collision.
Three Of the Arctic's boats have not been heard
lot, but being life boats, 1t is supposed they may
have been picked up by passing ships.
| Vessels which were sent in search of the boats
returned on Tuesday, the Sd inst, without find
/ ing the slightest trace of them, OF any portion
of the wreck. All the passengers and crew
sayed, as advised yesterday, left here for Boston
IN the Europa.
The regular communication between this port
and Newfoundland is only once fortnight
that period will therefore probably elapse be-
fore we shall hear any thing else from that
island. It it probable, however, that the
steamer Ospray, sent to convey the City of PHIL
adelphia's passengers, and expected to leave st.
Johns about the 9Th inst, may touch here on
her return to Philadelphia. If SO, her intelIi-
gence will be some four days later than that
now received 55+s5.55..4.5zI
During the day we also received the following
dispatch from Boston, announcing the safety Of
forty more persons, but q subsequent dispatch
from Providence, as will be seen, eontradiots
the story:
1 90 ..s#ss5 BesroN, Thursday, Oct r.
gentleman who left New York last evening and who
arrived here to-day informs that there report at
Fall River this morning, that vessel loaded with rail-
road iron had arrived Warren T. with forty persons
picked up from of the missing boats of the Arctic
| RRoyrpENcE, Thursday, Oct H.
We learn by the return of the special messenger who
was dispatched Warren to inquire to the truth of
the rumor relative to the arrival at that port large
number of the Arccs passengers that the report orjg
mated from the ship Margaret (which arrived at Warren