Washington telegraph., 1854-05-24

iue all tuaG nave Deen discovered as yet
Intrinsically they are trifes, but they will
speak volumes to those who recognize in
them the treasures to which their lost friends
ching in the last hours of life.
| About I o'clock the ships masts went by
the board. and almost Immediately after
wards the hull bursted in two, and every
soul on board was launched into eternity
The sea presented a black mass of human
heads and floating pieces of the wreck, but
in a few moments all had sunk to rise no
more. The beach was strewn with the dead
bodies of men, women and children, pieces
Of the wreck, the baggage of the passengers,
and empty casks Nothing remained to
mark the spot where the ill-fated ship had
went down, except surging waves beating
upon fragment of the hulk, which lay up
on the beach,
The cry of the drowning men, and the
shrieking of the women and children were
hushed-all lay in the deep, numbered with
the dead, while the wind walled loud and
mournfully adding still more horror to the
awful catastrophe All had sunk-captain,
officers, crew and passengers-of go per-
Il
aid came from the government house that
night and Capt. Jennings was compelled to
remain there by himself, lonely watcher
of the dead.
On Monday morning men arrived from
the station house. but their he p came too late
The storm, it seems was so severe that while
on their way back to the wreck on Sunday
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down exhausted, and the whole party were
obliged to return nearly frozen to DEATH
This party Of men, under command of Capt
Jennings, set Immediately about finding and
gathering together those bodies that had been
washed ashore. In the short space of an
hour nearly 90 women and children were
found. almost naked. scattered along the
beach, some of them dreadfully bruised and
cut
One man was found so yards from the
beach, upon the sand hills, with child in
his arms; and from his condition it is sup
posed that he alone Of all on board reached
the shore alive, and crawling out of reach
of the waves in order to save his own life
and that of the infant in bis arms fell down
exhausted on the sand, and froze to death
during the night. The child was firmly
locked ID bis arms. quite dead, and appeared
as if it had also died from exposure
The whole of this day was spent in search
ing for the bodies Of the unfortunate people,
But one man was found among the number,
! all the rest being women and children
They appeared to have been in excellent
health, with rosy cheeks and smiling faces,
looking as if they were asleep rather than
dead They were all laid side by side un-
til boat could be got to carry them to the
shore
On Thursday % bodies were removed
from the beach to the villa ge of Manahaw-
kin. These consisted of l man and 81
children, all apparently, by their features
appearing to be Germans, the women who
had any clothes on being dressed in coarse
materials, with heavy shoes, some of them
wooden ones All the dead were conveyed
to an outhouse of Sqr. Peckworth's, where
they remained until collins could be made
for them This melancholy task of making
receptacles for the dead, occupied the atten-
ton of the men residing in the village,
while the women were busily employed in
washing the bodies, and laying them out,
preparatory to their being placed in the cof-
fins. Too much praise cannot be awarded
to the inhabitants of Manahawkin for their
zeal and industry in giving decent burial
to the dead. Memphis Wig.