Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-10-11
BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.
LOSS OF THE ARCTIC.
PAssKHaERs AND CREW DRoWNHpl
ONLY THIRTY-TwO SAVED:
TERRIBLE COLLISION AT SEA,
List Of the Passengers Picked up at Sea, &c

Editorsof tie Star: We have at length
melancholy news of the Arctic.
On the 9th ult., she came in collision with
an unknown ship, supposed to be British
steamer, and it is thought that the latter is
lost also. If ESQ, nearly six hundred souls have
persisted through this collision!
The mails and everything on board the Arc
tic, including Government dispatches from
London and Paris, are lost. Only thirty-two
souls Of those who were on the Arctic are
known to be saved.
Gen. Sanford and his brother Edward, the
great lawyer, both Of New York, Captain
Comstock of the Baltic, the Duke de Gram
mont, Of the French Embassy, Captain Luce
and the family Of Mr.. Collins are all among
the lost .tra
IsEcoND DEsPArcH.1
MORE ABOUT THE LOSS OF THE ARCTIC
NEW YORK, Oct. IL, IL P. M-The ship
Seharon brings twenty of the Arotic's passen.
gers, survivors of that ill fated vessel, who re.
port that on the night of tho 9th ult, during
dense fog, the Arctic came in collision with
steam propeller, bark rugged, of iron, with
black hull salmon colored bottom and lead
colored boats. She is thought to have been
the steamer Charity, from Montreal for Liver
pool. Upwards of 200 persons were seen on
her deck immediately after the collision. The
Arctic was going at the rate of Is knots an
hour.
After the collision the Captain of the Arctic,
thinking his own vessel unipjured, commenced
to render assistance to the propeller, but soon
discovered that the Arctic was leaking rapidly,
which soon exting uished her fires. The dis.
covery of this fact caused an indiscribable
panic on board the Arctic, among the passen.
gers and crew.
F. The boats were rapidly launched and filed
by the Grew and few passengers, who sue
ceeded in fighting their way to the boats, which
soon drifted away on the open sea in dense
fog. The boats were crowded to excess, with
but little provision or water.
Captain Luce, with Mr.. Doran, his mate, re-
manned on board to construct raft to en-.
deavor to save the great body of passengers,
including the women and children who still
remained on board the Inflated steamer.
As soon as the raft was launched, there was
sudden panic on board, large numbers got
on the raft and in the sixth be at in the great
est haste and CONSERVATION, and in three min
utes the Arctic sunk. All in the sixth boat
were saved, and but one out of the seventy-two
on the raft, it having more on than it was
possible to sustain. They were cast into the
sea in the presence of the few survivors.
At5p. m. on 18th inst, the bark Huron, of
st. Andrews, d. B. Capt. Wad, bound for
Quebec, picked up the last of the six boats
that left the Arctic, and took the passengers
On board.
The Huron fred rockets and hung out lights
during the night, and kept her horn blowing
during the night of the 2Sth, in the hopes of
falling in with some of the Arctic's boats,
which proved fruitless.
On the evening of the 18th, the Huron spoke
the ship Lebanon, Capt. Story, bound to New
York, and transferred eighteen passengers
The fate of the propeller, which was thought
to be greatly damaged, and the five boats
which left the Arctic, is not known.
On the morning of the 18th, the Huron saw
singular craft before falling in with the
Arctic's boat, which nigh have been the pro-
peller.
The list of passengers picked up by the HUI.
ron is as follows:
Luke Mccarthy, Joseph Cornell, Richard
Makom, James Conner, John Drury, Christian
Moran, james Ward and Christop Ter Gala
her, all fremen; and Thomas Wilson, assist
ant engineer; Robert Bryan, David Barry,
and Erastus Miller, all walters.
Those arrived at New York in the ship LIE.
banon are Edward Mahon, Thomas Garland,
Patrick Casey, Patrick Tolin, Dobbin and Car
rigan, all firemen; Thomas Brennan, assistant
engineer John Connolly, engineers steward !;
Thomas Stanson, officer stewart James Car
rigan, porter; Michael Mclaughlin, and the
boy Peter NJ ;Cabe, picked up at the time of
the sinking Of the sixth boat
The Lebanon also bring the following pas.
sengers, who were in the boat: VIM. Nichols
anu Henry Jenkins, of TIescon, Sicily island;
Jas. Thomson, of N. o.; Capt. p F. Cram, of
N. Y, Geo. II. Burns, of Philadelphia; F.
Dorian, Of n. Y.
The five boats, which have reached land or
been picked up, are known to have contained
Mr.. Gurley, first officer; Thamas Wildse,
boatswain; Balam, second officer Graham,
fourth officer; Moore, of New York, passen :
ger; Rogers, chief engineer; Dom, assistant;
Walker and Willett, I'd and Sd do; D. Con-
molly, John Moran, j. Flanagan, and Pat.
McCuley, fremen; Messrs. Dingnell, Keelly,
and Simpson; young man who was under
instruction in the engineers department,
named Robinson, besides sailors and quarter
masters.
Among those known to be lost, and seen last
on the deck Of the Arctic few moments be-
fore she sunk, were the following: Cam. Luce