The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-04-27
Terrible Shipyyrccks.
100 and Thirty Lives Lost.

NC seNeIity Vi 'h0
urday and Sunday proved the most de-
structive one experienced along the New
Jersey coast for number of years.
We learn from Long Beach that the
shin Pow haitian, of Baltimore, from llav-
re. bound, to n. York, went ashore, in the
height of the gale, about o'clock on
Sunday morning The point where she
struck was about seven miles north of
Egg Harbor Light. She went entirely to
pieces, and out of the whole number OF
the passengers and crew on board, not
one is known to have been saved. She i,
supposed to haze had about 200 emigrant>
on board About forty bodies were
picked up on Monday at Long Beach,
drifted ashore from the wreck The
Powhattan sailed from Hayre in the be-
ginning of March for New York. She
was an old ship, and worth about SIS GOO
1t is thought she had not much cargo.
The schooner Manhattan went ashore
on Sunday evening about two miles south
of The Powhattan, and all on board were
lost except one man who was picked UP
insensible and, up to the last accounts,
could give no particulars of the disaster
She was a collier, and bound to Bangor
Loss OF TIE SHIP STAFFORD.
Accounts from Absecom Beach state
that on Tuesday a number of dead bodies
were washed ashore on Absecom Beach
as well as on Brigantine Beach, which
lies between it and Long Beach. Up tc
Wednesday evening the whole number
was fifty-cight, consisting of men, women
and children. There were no portions OF
a wreck seen in the vicinity, but yester,
day a piece of bedding, marked packet
ship Stafford" drifted ashore, and is
thought to furnish the name of the lost
ship from which the bodies were washed.
By telegraph, we have the following
particulars of the disasters at Absecom
ABsECoM, \, j., April 20.-We reach
cd this place at half-past one o'clock this
morning, and leave at five o'clock for Alb.
secom Beach, which is seven miles distant
We have examined the clothing Of ono
of the drowned persons washed ashore al
the Beach. The stockings, apparently Of
Holland manufacture, seem to have be-
longed to boy of IL or II years old
His linen was marked in bold, red letters
&c. j." Judging from the clothing of the
victims, they were either Scotch or Ger,
man, and they appear to have belonged
to the more respectable class of emigrants
Between 50and60 bodies have been wash,
ed ashore. The impression n is that they
are from the ship Stafford" from Liver,
pool, bound to New York.
Mr.. Collins, of Leeds Point, which is
on Little Egg Harbor Bay, west of Tuck
er's Beach and Long Beach, says that 8
German hoated ashore at that place last
evening, alive but insensible. Hope.
we're entertained, however, of his recov'
cry. He is supposed to have been from
the Powhattan.
From the best inform alton that we car
gather from persons on the Beach, about sc
dead bodies have been washed ashore on
Absecom, fifty or sixty Brigantine, and
forty on Long Bcach-in all about one
hundred and thirty. Four were washed
ashore this morning on Brigantine Beach
All the bodies appear to be those Of
the better class of German emigrants.--
The younger persons were in their night
clothes.
Benjamin Turner, resident of Brig
antine Beach, generousl y attended to the
requirements of the dead bodies. One
man was found, who, from his dress, it Is
supposed was captain.
About fifty bodies have been taken to
Smithville for interments. Miss Bass oI
Absccom, prepared a number Of bodies
for burial. The people generally were
afraid to touch them.
\ mattrass washed ashore bears the
following inscription:
AmeytEanische Line Jo1r PacLd
.Schifalyt-T Valentine, N0JrenSc, Meyer,
HuDtJurg 2 Neinhoft; Lccef002I Regent
Road, t5scjng BransIcymoor D0ch; Aeac
York, 90 TVea street.
1t is reported that several bodies have
been robbed by some Williams on the
beach.
The Government have no provision
here to prevent such depredations. There
are DO other important items worth tele-
graphing.
THE SHIP HUMBOLDT.
By a telegraphic despatch received
from New York, we learn that the report
of the loss of the Bremen ship Humboldt.
with several hundred cmigrants, as pub
lished in some Of the papers, is entirely
unfounded, as she is now anchored.at the
Quarantine in safety.
TIE WRECK OE TIE UNDERWATER.
BY the last accounts from this vessel,
we learn that all her passengers were
landed in safety and sent to New York.
The Underwater was first class vessel
of 1900 tons, and had upwards of five
hundred passengers on board. At the
time she went ashore, she was under