The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-14
WRrCK OF TIE SHIP NEW ERA.
FR'eHTFUL LOSS OF LIFE.
THE CAPTAIN AND TWENTY PASSENGERS SAVED.
One Hundred and Fifty People HrowneI OF
Smothsred Between Deeks.
L1ttle Hope u the Remainder Rejnr savel.
THE LATEST.
&C., &c.. &a.

Early yesterday afternoon information reached th
city that large ship, then unknown was avround
ABOUT four miles south of Long anch, on the erse,
shofs' near to Sandy Hook and that she lay in very
dangerous position
Towards one O'Clock we learned that this vessel va,
the New 20, lately built in Bath No. which had so.
from Bremen with three hundred and eighty
for New York
Al the moment that this information was ~
us, n the passengers were board They were crowd
ing the Deck apparently in great terror and alarm but
u ana not then appear from the shore that there would
esny loss OF hfe much less total shipwreck although
the sea was at this time very high and no boat from
shore--not even steamer-could communicates with
the ship
We immediately despatched reporters to the Office OF
tnc consguees Of the New Era well as every other
source OF information in New York aud at six O'Clock in
the evening (Monday) they had learned the following
particulars
The ship New Fra built by Messrs. Hitchcock 4
Company, Of Bath (Me.,) during the present vear
she was OF thirteen hundred and twenty e;rht tons
burhen and was valued at thousand dollars
ABOUT the ga OF September last she sailed from, the
port ot bremen under comma ID Of Capt Henry on her
hrst voyage for the port of New York. having heavy
insurance effected in Bath (Mc.,) and Boston. with
charges amounting to nearly six thousand dollars &C.
cured in Wall street, in this city.
She was consigned to Messrs. Charles C. Duncan Co.
Of SO South street
The emigrants were all Germans
After somewhat tedious passage, the New Era canc
IN sght OF land about midday Of Sunday the 18th
instant and, continuing her course in dense for she
ran ashore between Deal and Iong branch during tho
night.
At an early hour yesterday morning sho was
lying with brcaside to Shore with very heavy sea nm
which was breaking over her and washing her decks
Az ~ O'clock noon, there peceptbe signs of her
breaking up.
FROM the moment she was every effort was made
BY the people shore to save the passenpcrs Ear,x
in the afternoon they had succeeded in passing lines to
the ship and in short time AFTER Captain Henry. with
twenty Of the passengers, was landed in safety.
From them IT was learned that before they left the
vessel over one hundred and fifty of the remaining mas
were dead having been either sothercd between
'IoWhca Dy the How OF water (which was contin-
uaIy sursing over them), or been swept overheard 4
Renewed exertions were made from the beach to svo
the balance Of the people on board but nm IN tho o
OF our last accounts they were attended with
The New Fra was ccnsIg,.s., ..------4
G. c. Duncan Co.. New York. and inquiries at their Of
Ace, made at O'Clock last evening, confirmed the
rectness Of fornoons intelligence Of this melancholy
and fatal disaster. short time previous to the las
named hour Mess Duncan had received despatch from
Long Branch to e effect that only the Captain Henry
and twenty Of The passengers Of the New Era saved
that the ship rapidly breaking up that hundred
and fifty people already dend and that there
very slight hopes Of saving the remainder
Messrs Duncan & Company believed then that the
New Era without any cargo, and they had not
ceiyed any list Of the of the passengers WHO sailed
from Bremen IN her. We are therefore, unable to
eve the anxiety Of hundreds Of people who had
pected relatives friends 10 arrive this Inflated ship
suppose that the same lax of rule pur
sued in her which is observed very strangely in most
of the emigrant ships coming here, viz not to make
the nominal roll of people on board until tho captain
completes il the capstan head, when off Staten Island
BY still later inquiry, assured that the nsur
the New Era so, 600 with Boston compa
MES s25 600 in Bath Maine, and about $4,000 in New
York.
As the emigrants on board were all Germans, It Is
most likely that shah be able to find out list
of the Of the people who have been suddenly lost
and this fatal shpwreck viii, in all probability, have TO
be cassed amongst The sorrowfu "reminiscences attend
ing the loss OF the Powhatan the shore, when
human being left to tell the sad tale
Of the calamity.
The New Era is aground the Jersey Shore between
Deal and Long Branch, about fifteen miles below Sandy
Hook and nearly thiry-iyc miles from New York. The
beach is sandy bleak and At this of the year
very dangerous Shrewsbury Inlet on one side OF the
vessel and Shark Inlet and the rugged beach Of quan
on the other.
Accounts received al Office al seven O'Clock last
evening stated that several steam tugs lying by the
vessel but that they ccu not approach enough to
render her any help ewing to the rough state Of the
weather
The ship going TO pieces.
LETTER FROM CAPT. SMITH OF THE NEWS