Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-04-27

of two hundred and fifty persons not soul
was left to tell the tale. No aid came from the
Government House that night, and Capt. Jen-
nings was compelled to remain there by himself,
lonely watcher of the dead. y
On Monday morning four men arrived from
the station-house. but their help came too late.
The storm, it seems, was SO severe. that while
on their way back to the wreck on Sunday, with
the life car and mortar, two of them fell 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 fuding and gathering togeth-
er those bodies that had been washed ashore. In
the short space of an hour nearly twenty women
and children were found, almost naked, scatter
! ed along the beach, some of them dreadfully
bruised and cut.
| One man was found about fifty yards from the
beach, upon the sand hills, with child in his
arms and from his condition it is supposed that
he alone, of all on board, reached the shore
alive and crawled out of reach of the waves, in
order to save his own life and that of the infant
in his arms, fell down exhausted on the sand,
and was frozen to death during the night The
child was firmly locked in his arms, quite dead,
and appeared as if it had also died on the shore
from exposure.
The whole of this day was spent in searching
for the bodies of the unfortunate people, But
one man was found among the number, all the
rest were 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, until boat could be got to carry
them to the shore.
On Tuesday twenty-five bodies were removed
from the beach to the village of Manhawkin.
These consisted of one man and twenty-one chill
dren, all apparently, by their features, appear
ing to be Germans, the women who had any
clothes on being dressed in coarse material, with
heavy shoes, some of them wooden ones. All
the dead were conveyed to an clubhouse ofSquire
Peckworth's where they remained until collins
could be made for them. This melancholy task
of making receptacles for the dead occupied the
attention of the men residing in the village,
while the women were busily employed in wash
ing the bodies and laying them out, preparatory
to their being placed in the collins. Too much
praise cannot be awarded to the inhabitants of
Manhawkin for their zeal and industry in giving
decent burial to the dead
Our reporter visited the Dead House, where
lay in tiers, one above another, women and chill
dren, presenting shocking and painful specta-
Gle. The whole evening was spent in making
collins and shrouds; and it was not until mid
night that these kind-hoarted people desisted in
their labors, which were trying in the extreme
All along the shore for ten miles were scat
tered the remnants Of the chests and trunks OF
the passengers, many of them having names in
scribed on the lids and sides. Feather beds,
cooking utensils, empty casks and pieces of the
vessel were to be seen on every side. Letters Of
the dead were scattered here and there, and BIZ
bles and prayer-books lay glistening in the sun,
the whole desolation presenting a melancholy
and heart-rending scene.
The latest accounts from the wreck, received
at Philadelphia on the Goth, state that the to-
tai number of bodies recovered was one hundred
and twenty.
We have also to record to-day the wreck Of
another vessel in the same vicinity and the loss
of six lives. 1t appears that the schooner Man
haitian, of Bangor, Maine, Capt. Fields, came
ashore about mile below the Powhattan, on
Sunday night After considerable humping on
the bar she was driven over and was beaten up
on the shore. The sea ran very high and drove
her up within fifty yards of the beach.