Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-01-14
Gelegraptir.
Loss of the San Francisco..

New YORK, Jan. 13.-The ship Three Bells
arrived to-day, and brings the sorrowfll inteli
gence that the San Francisco foundered at sea on
the 9Th instant, after having, by extraordinary ex-
ertion, been kept afoat for thirteen days. Two
hundred and forty persons known TO have pc
rished. The captain and crew were saved.
The Three Bells brings one hundred and sixty
of those board. The barque Kiby, for Boston
took up some, and the ship Antarctic, for Liver
pool the others.
Second Dispatch.
New York, Jan. I3.--Among the passengers
lost on the San Francisco, were Colonel Iaylor
and wife, Colonel Washington, Lieutenant Smith,
and Captain Field. The one hundred. and forty
passengers arrived here to-day, including Major
Wyse, Lieutenant Winder, Colonel Gates, Major
Merchant, Colonel Burke Captain Judd Lieuten-
ant Fremont, Lieutenant Loeser Lieutenant Van
WORT, and all the ladies except Mrs. Taylor, who
were on board the steamer, are on board the
Kilby, bound to Boston. Lieutenants Wnder and
Chandler are on board the ship Antarctic, bound
to Liverpool.
The two hundred and forty who were lost were
washed overload in the gale of the 23d Of Decem-
Der. All the troops were divided between the
three vessels The decks were swept on the
night of the 2fth Of December, and the steamer
was disabled, heavy washing overheard the
number before mentioned, including Colonel J. B.
Washington, Lieutenant Smith, Captain Fl. B.
Field, and Colonel Taylor and wife. She drifted
about until the 9Th instant until she fallen in
with, lin latitude SO, longitude 59) by the three
vessels. Mr.. G. w. Aspinwal is on board the
bark Kilby.
AT one o'clock in the morning of the 25th of
December, the engine stopped, the piston rod
breaking of, thus leaving the vessel totally
manageable, and the sea striking herwth tremen-
dous force, the blows under her guards tore
up the plankng fore and aft on both sides.
AT the same time she began TO make water,
when the troops were organized into bailing gangs
At o'clock of the 18th the sea struck her amid
ships, carrying away both smoke-stacks and all
the upper saloon staving the quarter deck through
and washing overheard large number of passen-
gers, including, besides those previously men
toned, two ladies, whose names were unknown
Three civilians, whose names were also unknown,
and $50 United States troops at the same time
were killed
On the 2Sth she spoke the barque Kilby, of Bos-
ton, from New York, who lay by her until three
o'clock in the afternoon of the 10Th, when she
commenced getting the passengers aboard.
Upwards of one hundred got board, men,
women, and children including the officers before
reported, with their families-Captain Judd and
wife, Lieut.. Fremont and family, CIV. Aspinwall,
and J. L. Graham.
The weather looking squaly, with increasing
wind, the Kilby let go her hawser at night, and
nothing has been seen of her since. The gale
continued throughout the Both and 31st, and
large number of men sick and dying Al
morning, on the 1st Of January, she spoke the
British ship Three Bells, which lay by until the
Sd, when her boat came alongside,
The same day the ship Antarctic, from New
York for Liverpool, bore down for her. On We'd
nesday, both ships commenced taking off the pas
sengers, provisions, and water and at sunset they
had all aboard. The next morning they took off
the crew and oficers-Captain Watkins being the
last man to leave the San Francisco.
The Three Bells brings 230 souls, including pas
sengers, troops, and officers ofthe steamer There
were II deaths among the crew of the steamer
from the time she was disabled TO the sth, in
Guiding two washed overheard