Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-04-29
THE WRECKED SHIP POwHATAN.

The ship Powhatan Capt. Meyers, with three hundred
and eleven passengers board bound from Havre to
New York, was cast ashore Saturday night on the
outside bar abont midway between Barnegat and Egg
Harbor inlets
When the Powhatan first discovered by Capt Jen-
nings Of Long Beach, which Sunday morning she
lay with her head to the SOUTH the decks crowded
with passengers, and the making clean breach
over her Seeing the condition of the vessel Capt Jen-
nngs, who is stationed wreck master the beach,
all the at his command, though the snowstorm
was raging violently the Government house. in order
bring down the fe-car and other wrecing apparatus
and stood shore himself watching the effects Of the bill
lows upon the fated vessel Hour after hour slipped
by, but the men did not return with the ifecar The
vessel became and uneasy and many persons
swept off by the heavy surf About o'clock p. NJ
one immense wave washedfu hundred persons over
board who carried away down the beach by the
derow. At this time Capt Meyers who the deck
of the Powhatan all this while called out in loud voice
to Mr. Jennings, entreating him to try and Of
those who might be washed ashore
About o'clock the ships mass went by the board
and almost Immediately afterward the hull broke in two
and every board launched into eternity The
presented black mass Of human heads and floating
pieces Of the wreck but in few all had sunk
to rise alive The beach was strewn with tbs
dead bodies of aud children pieces Of the wreck.
the baggage Of the passengers, and empty casks.
One man 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 board
reached the shore alive and crawling out OF reach OF tho
in order to his fo and that of the infant
in his arms fell down exhausted the sand and
frozen to death during the night The child firmly
locked in his arms quite dead and appeared if it had
also died ashore from exposure.
On Tuesday twenty-five bodies were removed from the
beach to the village of Msnahawkin These consisted Of
and twenty-one and children, all by their
features appearing to be Germans, the who had
any clothes being dressed in materials, with
heavy shoes on, some of them wooden Ones Too much
praise cannot be awarded to the inhabitants of Mans
hawkn for their zeal and industry in giving decent burial
to the dead
On Wednesday morning wagon arrived with the bodies
of sx Of the Dead who Immediately taken to
the dead house. where they placed in the collins pro-
pared for them.
In the southwest Of the church-yard deep
trenches dug in the vicinity of the place where the
bones many board the ship Auburn
many years ago. lie moulderng in the dust and the cons
deposited one by alongside Of each other with
headboard at the head Of each grave denotin the
Der and description Of the inferred
Along the shore for ten miles were scattered the rem
nant of the chests and trunks of the many
them having inscribed the lids asd sides Fes
ther BEDS cooking utensils empty casks and pieces Of
the vessel were to be every side Letters
here and there and Bibles and prayer books lay
gistenng in the sun, the whole desolaton presenting
melancholy and heartrending scene.