New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-04-22
NARLVE AFFAIRS.
WRECK OF THE POwHArAN


We present sders with sueh further particulars Of
the lcfs Of the PovhasD and all on board as have come
10 hard
The PowhstaR sailed from Havre on the IE Of March
lat destined for New York. having board 25o psssen
gers she Is old ship Of shout 600 tuns burden and
could not easily be managed in such storm As that n
which she Loot She had been running before the gale
under bare poles for hours Saturday and ard even
ing Of that day discovered about ten miles below
Barnes OF inlet among The shoals where che remained until
Sunday evening at clock, when she went 70 pieces
Tbose board seen, during Saturday and Sunday
bolcDg 10 the buwarks
No aid eoud be rendered to them, and they could not
leave the .hp without meeting with certain death The
sea washed them constantly and on Sunday at
NJ, toward 100 Of them ws<hed of from The ship
portion Of them being thrown lfeess aud msng5d upon
the beach by the fury Of the Tbs ran fear
fully high ard boat could have lived il five minutes
Capt Jennings the wreck master kept watch Of her
from Sunday morning. lie dispatched four 10 the
Government House distance Of six miles for life car,
and other apparatus for wrecking purposes, and he
remained alone to sstch the wreck The storm rag
ing during that time fesrfuly Capt jennings
started from the Government House Sunday with
life and mortar but OF them bee ming completely
exhausted they compelled TO return. On Monday
morning they succeeded in reaching the Of desoa
lion with the apparatus but late render any
assitteDce
Al the tine that the sweep. the hundred persons
overheard Capt Meyers board Of the Powhaan spoke
with a loud voice from the deck through his speaking
trumpet beseechpg Capt Jennings to of those
who might he landed on the be.ch but those were dead
who ashore, which fscs Capt Jennings comnuuica
ted TO Cspt Meyers Not survivor could be found among
item The violence of the wsyes the blows which they
had received BY being thrown against the ship and the
force with which they tossed upon the beach, had
killed oil Of them and shcckiDgy maDged many Of the
bodies
At O'Clock mme wsve-not less than 100 fee
lieh-struck the wre X The masts fell and the shio
cumbeo before it Cries Of dspar distinctly heard
above the roaring Winds and dshipg waters and sill
Not persoD saved alive from the wreck and
scarcely vesge of the ship remained The bore
their surface bodies bales boxes and fragments OF the
ship During the night the storm increased and in the
morning the bt ach found TO be with the bodies
he lost fragments of the III ated ship casks and boxes
end other baggage of the passengers. Ga Monday
ing Capt Jennings and those who hsd arrived from the
Government house with the wreokpg apparatus employed
themselves in collecting the bodies baggage, &c
The search for bodies continued during Monday In
hours time the bodies of about twenty womsn and chill
den had been found Only one found during the
day lie discovered upon the sand hills nearly fifty
Yards from the beach supposed that he reached the
shore I've and succeeded in getting out Of reach Of the
waves but persbed during the night He was about 80
wears of age and well dressed He held in his in
FAINT ~hch bad evidently pished afer reaching the shore
Twenty Two bodies were Tuesday taken from the
beach to the village Of Nanahawbin or inerment They
were evidently Germans There man and 81
children in the number. On Wednesday morning six
other bodies arrived the village from the beach In the
south west corner of the Baptist buryng ground graves
we're dug for the bu of the dead and at the head of
each grave board giving description Of the los; one
inferred there was planted Their bodies lie close by
where those ost years ago in the ship Auburn were in
tered
The folio wing list of passengers and crew LOST appears in
Tie Herald: