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DREADFUL CALAMITY.
Loss OF the San FranciscO!-TwO Hun.
dred and Forty Lives LOST .!

Loss OF the San FranciscO!-TwO Hun.
dred and Forty Lives LOST !!
PHhADELPHIL, Jan. 14--The steamship San
Francisco, about which so much uneasiness
has been felt, fOundered on the 5th inst She
had great number Of passengers aboard, TIVE
hundred and forty of whom perished. The
bark Three Bells has arrived at New York,
bringing one hundred and sixty Of those who
were saved. The bark Kilby, for Boston, al.
so has some Of the saved. and others are on
board the ship Antarctic bound for Liverpool.
The captain and the crew Of the San Francisco
were saved.
New YoRK. Jan IS, P. M.-AmoDg the
lost are Col. Taylor and wife, Col Washing
ton, Lieut.. Smith and Capt. Field. 0ae hun
dred and forty ofthe passengers arrived here
to day, including Major Myse, Lieut. Winders-
Col. Gates. Major Merchant, Col. Burke, Cap,
tain Judd, Lieut. Fremont. Lieut., Loesser,
Lieut. Vanvoort Lieuts. G. S. Winders, and
Chandler are on board the ship Antarctic,
bound for Liverpool. The troops we're diyi.
ded between the three vessels.
The two hundred and forty who were lost,
were washed overheard in a gale on the Esd
ut.
All the spars and sails Of the San Francisco
were blown away in gale on the Gath, ult.-
At o'clock on the morning Of the 25th, her
engines stopped working, leaving the vessel
totally unmanageable. The sea struck tre-
mendous blows under her quarter guards.
tearing up the planking fore and aft. Both
sides at the same time began to make water.
when the troops were organized into baiing
gangs. AT 8 O'Clock on the 25th the sea struck
amidships, carrying away both smoke stacks
and all the upper saloon, staving in the quarter
deck, washing overheard large number of
passengers, including Col. Washington, Ma
jor Taylor and wife, Capt Field Lieut. Smith,
two ladies, (names unknown, three civilians.
whose names were also unknown and one
hundred and fifty u. s. troops. At the same
time three were killed.
On the 28th the bark Kilby, of Boston,
bound for New York, was spoken, who hove
to and remained by the steamer until ) in the
afternoon ofthe 29th, when passengers COM
menced getting aboard of her. Upwards Of
one hundred got aboard. men. women, and
children, including the officers before reported,
with their families. At night the wind increas.
ed with squalls. Tie Kilby let go her hswser
a: 10, since when nothing has been heard of
her, The gale continued throughout the oOth
and sIst. A large number of men were sick
and dying.
On the mornil G Of the lst inst, she spoke
the British ship Three Bells, which lay by un-
til the Sd, when her boat went alongside. On
the same day the ship Autocrat. from New
York for Liverpool. bore down for her. On
Wednesday, both ships commenced taking off
passengers, provisions, and water, and by sun
set of the 9Th had all on board
The next morning the crew and officers
we're taken of, Captain Watkins being the last
man TO leave the steamer.
The Three Bells brings ESQ souls, including
passengers, troops, officers and seamen of the
San Francisco. Eleven deaths occurred a.
mong the crew of the steamer, from the time
she was disabled to the 9th, including two who
we're washed overheard.