New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-16

| SIX OF the crew were IN hS Ohrg
.ben sea struck her, and her painter psrisd.
she wa carried away from tbs ship, asd
thoes who were in her were obliged TO make for
the shore. The sbios surgeon, DR. Papenhaseo, 81
tempted 10 get into her by lowering himself "a lice,
but xss too late and the ssa washed bin "a. All h7
r,s dpwped The captain then descended tn IN.
riecI 2 ard came fOrwsr< on to the ji1bOon- gas
or ten Of the psssesgers, in attempting % follow b. n
were carried overheard by the waves. When the ship
struck she svuDg around brJadsde 10 the b-a her
head 10 the south; t1e sea broke over her forr snf
aft and in lers than an hour she flied and sunk. When
the ship struck, the passengers were all between
decLs in their berfhs with the exception Of tEslvs,
who we're taking their turn at the pumps. The
broke over Us and rushed into th- bet reen decks,
drowning many Of the women in their berths Those
who could 80 rushed upon deck many Of than
nearly in state Of nudity, and RAJ about the deck
slTieEng 10 the most painful tones. The houses on
deck the top Of the poop cabin, and every place Of
shelter were crowded with them. Ia the torslrd
bouse some fifteen or twenty persons, mostly
women. These were carried overheard, together
With the house in which they sought refuge, BY tire
meDdous that nearly cleared our decks As nsny
p@rsOns ss were able assembled the sarbOard rigging
and clung to il for safety from the great seas that
dashed over Us. The captain told the people to re-
main quiet and they would al get ashore, bat they
needed him not but kept crying for assistance. The
captain also shouIed at the top of hts voice FOR
beAp from the shore The poor people on board
were being continually swept OH Into the
sea- The whole Of the rigging on the starbosrd size
souls After several Intellectual attempts the people
on shore succeeded in firing shot over u.s. and sead-
ing line scIoss our fore royal stay, and man on
the end Of the wing lbbOOm caught it. The osPtsin
made it fest BY the fore stay aud all Of hauled the
life boat from the shore to the ship. The captain
got into the fore chains and was followed by part
Of the crew. The boat having capsized several
times in coming 10 Us, was full OF water, ana 'oe
captain ordered some Of the to get in and bas
Der out. Az soon they got In he Jumped over.
board and scrambled into the boat, leaviGg hve OF
the crew end his passengers on board as soon as
he got into the boat be cried out to the people on Tue
beach to haul him on shore. When the passengers
the captain leaving his ship, ten or twelve OF them
jumped overheard and four of them got into toe
boai-the remainder we're drowned The coa-t PEG
pie hanled the boat toward the shore but she cap
sized three times in going and only the captain, three
of the crew and one Of the passengers got ashore Ia
safety-the remainder were drowned. On her @aY
10 the shore the line connecting the shore aud the snip
parted and We were again left t. despair Inc
people on shore az am fired lines 70 us Da osy ono
the last was successful this caught on the forosop-
sail brace. but beyond our reach. ny tns uihe "
was resrly dark and the people on shore hal eA-
bausted ali their shot while the sea was running 20
high that they could do nothing for US win tneir
bosfs. The few members of the crew remaining on
hoard five of usl lssbed ourselves os the Jlb-b"on
Abmt 10 O'Clock on Monday n7ht boat from
steamboat came 10 US, within hallpg detance, ana
ssked hsw we got along; replied We snou'u 40
yery well till morning if the ship held together, but
did not think she would last so long. The Captain
of the boat trld US 10 hold on aud he would soOn be
of 10 us with life-boat and assistance. We got
line ready for lowering ourselves into the ooa' scd
he returned in about half hour and hailed US again
10 know how we were We asked him to come along
and take us in but he waited for fifteen minutes and
found il impossible to come the sea was 80 oois
ferrous About o'clock fire was made up on the
shore and kept burning all night, and persons sto)d
by during the darkness The poor people on ooard
were CRYING aud grooming all night, but no eartay
assistance could then be afforded to any OF us.
About Ia O'Clock the ses began to break ever
our mace of shelter on the boom, and We got
up on to the e restay and into the foret.p.
All this time the deck strewn with dead DO lies
which the sea washed and fro against the frames
and bulrarks and the rolling spars and rubblsh mau-
pled terribly cold westerly wind arose about
O'clock on Monday evening; the night va. very
bleak the blast piercingy cold and many OF the en-
ierspts benumbed ana frozen, lost their hold, and
dropped from the shrouds into the ses and were
drowned. Others, exhausted. hung by their legs 10
the rigging too feeble TO longer MAINTAIN their hold,
and so persisted from sufocstOn. The scene ~as TOO
awful for further detail. Thank God, however, after
suffering from cold, hunger, and the bufetngs oil 'ne
waves for nearly twenty six hours amid horrors al
which the soul sickeus, we we're saved. BY o'clock
on Tuesday the had fallen considerably and tnree
surf.boats put of from the shore 10 our assistance
Through caution and close watching OF the rolling
waves they saved all that on board alive, WIZ
the exception Of four five who were drowned In
humping aft er the boat when they were on their way
back TO the shore full of people, All were saved ne
fore o'clock on Tuesday morning Or many VINO
were washed overheard by the sea, Only one woman
was saved. She got ashore, some two miles below
the ship in state Of nudity having been preserved
by cliDgiug to fragment of the wreck