The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-10-25
FURTHER CT THE ARCTIC--AR-
RIVAL CT CAPTAIN LUCE AND
OTHERS AT QUEBEc-FULL PAR
TICULARS.

rICULARS
The bark Canabria picked up Capt.
Luce, or s of the passengers, aud 5 of
the crew of the arctic from raft.
fho following is correct list of the
passengers saved with Capt. Luce:
f. May, G. +. Allen aud Jos Smith,
of the Arctic, j. ~. G. Francois, of the
TeSt0 Seamen-Patrick Moran, A
Grant. Michael Russell, John Riley and
John Patterson n.----
The rames of those who arrived at
Quebec on the ship Huron, are
Luke McCarty, Richard Machine,
Joas Abrys, Christ'r Moran, Erastus
Miller, John Drury, James Ward, Da-
vid Benny, Rob't Bryson, Joseph Col,ly
James Comfy. james Conner, Thomas
Wilson and Grant Conway. @
Mrs. Collins and Family certainly
lost.
Statement Of Capt. Luce.
The Arctic sailed from Liverpool On
Wednesday the 10th of September, at
IL A. NJ, with 233 passengers and about
$50 of a crew. Nothing of special note
occurred during the passage until We'd
uesday the 9th, when at noon we were
on the banks in latitude 46:45 with lon
gitude So west, steering west by COM
pass. The weather had been foggy du-
ring the day generally. Generally a
distance of J to : of mile could be
seen, but at intervals of few minutes,
a very dense fog followed by being suf-
ficiently clear to see or miles.
At noon 1 left the deck for the pur-
pose of working out the position of the
ship. In about fifteen monutes [ heard
a cry of "hard q Star6O0rd RI from the
officer of the deck. 1 rushed on deck
and had just got out when felt crash
forward, at the same moment saw a
steamer under the starboard boat, and
the next moment she struck against our
guards and passed astern of Us. The
bows of the strange vessel seemed to be
literally cut or crushed off, for full ten
feet, and it seemed that she must proba-
bly, sink in few minutes, and taking q
hasty glance cf our own ship, and be-
lieving we were comparatively uninjured,
my first impulse was teendeayor to save
the lives of those on board the sinking
vessel
The boats were cleared, and the first
officer and six men left with one boat,
when it was found our own ship was leak
ing fearfully The engineers were set
to work, instructed to put on thesteam-
pumps, and the four deck-pumps were
worked with vigor by the passengers and
crew. The ship was headed for land,
which I indeed to be about so miles
distant. [ was compelled to leave my
boat and crew with the first officer to
take care of themselves.
Several Intellectual attempts were
made to stop the leak by getting sails
over the bows, and finding tie leak gain
ing on us very fast, notwithstanding all
our very powerful efforts to keep her
free, resolved to get the boats ready,
and as many ladies aud children placed
in them as possible; but no sooner had
the attempt been made than the fire.
men and others rushed into them in
spite of opp sition.
Seeing this state of .hings, I ordered
the boats astern to be kept in readiness
until order should be restored, when, to
my dismay, l saw them cut the rope in
the bow, and soon disappeared astern in
the fog. Another boat was broken
down by persons precipitated into the
sea and drowned. This occurred while
I had been engaged in getting the star
board guard boat ready, and placed the
second officer in charge, when the same
fearful scene, as with the first boat, was
enacted; men leaping from the top Of
the rail, 20 feet, pushing and manning
those who were IN the boat
then gave orders to the I'd officer to
let 90 and row after the ship under OF
near the stern, to be ready and take on
board women and children as soon as the
fires were out and the engines stopped.
Nv attention was then directed to the
other quarter boat which [ found bro
ken down and hanging by the tackle
A rush was made for her also, and some
dozen or fifteen got in and cut the tackle
1t was soon out of sight.
In the meantime, [ found that not
seamen was left on board, nor corpen,
ter; and without any tools to assist US
built raft as our only hope, and the
only officer left was Mr.. Doran, the Sc
officer, who aided me, with the assist
ance of many of the passengers who de
serve great praise for GOODNESS and ener
gy in doing all in their power, up to thu
very moment before the ship sunk.
The chief engineer, with part of hi
assistants had taken our smallest deck
boat, and before the ship went dowI
pulled away with about fifteen persons
We had succeeded in getting the fal
and main-yard and two top-gallan
yards overheard, and such other small
spars and materials as we could collect
when was fully convinced that tn
ship must 90 down in very short time
Not moment was to be lost in gettin.
the spars lashed together to form raf
Ito do which, it became necessary t.
get the life -boat-our only remainin!
! boat-into the water.
This being accomplished L saw Mr.
Doran, chief engineer of the boat, taking
care ro keep the oars on board to pre-
vent them from leaving the ship, hopln:
still to get most of the women and child
ren in this boat, at least. They ha'
made considerable progress in collecting
the spars when an alarm was given tha
the ship was sinking aud the boat wa
showed off without oars or anything t
help themselves with, and when the shi
sank the boat had got, probably, a
eighth of a mile to leeward, and in a
instant, about qurter to p NJ, tn
, ship went down carrying every soul 0
board with her. 1 soon found myse
on the surface, after brief struggle
with my own helpless child in my arm
} 1 again found myself impelled dowr