Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-10-19

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and James Smith, of Ednburg, Scotland.
The British ship Huron, which picked up
fourteen of the Arctic's crew, arrived here
yesterday.
| THRILLING ACCOUNT BY CAPT. LUCE.
The Chief Engineer, with several of his
assistants, had taken the smallest of our deck
boats, and had, with about fifteen persons,
pulled away before the ship went down. We
had succeeded in getting the fore and main
yards and two top-gallant yards overheard, to-
gether with such other small spars and mate
rails as we could collect, when became fully
convinced that the ship must 60 down in a
very short time, and that not moment was to
be lost in getting the spars dashed together to
form the raft, to do which it became necessary
to get out the life boat, the only boat left
This being accomplished placed Mr.. Dori-
an in charge of the hoat, taking care to keep
back the oars, so that the boat might not be
taken away, and still hoped to get most of the
women and children in this boat at last. We
had made considerable progress in the con-
Meeting of the spars, when an alarm was Civ
en- that the ship was sinking, and the boat was
showed off without oars or any means Of help
ing themselves, and when the vessel sunk the
boat was probably an eighth of mile clear of
the Arctic. Instantly, at about fifteen min
utes to five P. NJ, the ship went down, carry
ing every soul on board with her. | soon
found myself on the surface again, and after
brief struggling, with my own helpless child
in my arms, again felt myself impelled down
ward to great depth, and before / reached
the surface the second time, | had nearly per-
ished, and had lost my hold on my child. As
again struggled upon the surface of the
water, most awful and heart rending scene
presented itself to my view women and chill
dren struggling together amidst pieces of
wreck Of every kind, calling on each other,
for help, and imploring God to assist them.
Such another appalling scene may God pre-
serve me from ever witnessing. | was in the
act of trying to save my child again, when a
portion of the paddle-box came crashing up
edgewise, just grazing my head and falling
with its whole weight on the head Of my dar-
ling child. In another moment beheId him
a corpse upon the surface of the water.
succeeded, in company with eleven others, in
getting on top of the paddle-box. One, how
ever, finding that all could not be supported
on this piece of the paddle-box, left for anoth-
er which was floating near. The others re-
manned until they were one by one relieved by
death. We stood up to our knees in water,
at temperature Of forty five degrees, and fire.
quently the sea broke directly over US. We
were soon separated from our friends on other
parts of the wreck, and passed terrible night,
each one expecting every hour would be his
last.
At last the long wished for morning came,
accompanied by dense fog; not living soul
but our own party to be seen, of whom only
seven men were left. In the course of the
morning, we saw some water casks and other
things belonging to our Inflated ship, but
could get nothing to afford US any relief and
our raft was rapidly settling, as it absorbed
water. About noon Mr.. S. nj. Woodruff
breathed his last, and all the Others except
Mr.. Geo. f. Allen, of New York, and N.Y.
self, began to suffer excrucatingly tor want of
water. In this respect zoe were very much ia
vored, although we had not drop of fresh
water on the raft. The day continued very
foggy, except just at noon, as near as we could
Judge, when we had clear horizon for about
halt an hour. Nothing could be seen but wa
ter and sky. Night again came on, thick and
dreary, and our minds were made up that
neither of us would again see the light of day.
Very soon, three more of our suffering party
were washed off and sank to rise no more,
leaving only Mr.. Allen, young man and my
self. Feeling myself very much exhausted,
now sat down for the first time, at about 8
, O'Clock, P. NJ, on trunk which had provi-
dentially been found among the wreck. In
this way slept little through the night,
and became somewhat refreshed About an
hour before daylight, we saw vessels light
near us, and all three of us exerted ourselves
to the utmost of our strength in hailing her
until we became quite exhausted. In about a
| quarter OF an hour the light disappeared to the
, eastward Of US. Soon after daylight barque
hove in sight, to the northwest, the fog hav-
, ing lightened little. She was apparently
t steering for US, but in a short time she seemed
, to have changed her course, and we were again
, doomed to disappointment yet | felt hope
that some of our fellow sufferers might have
been seen and rescued by them.
} Shortly after we had given up all hopes Of
being discovered or rescued by the barque, a
ship was discovered to the eastward, steering
directly for us. We now watched her with
the most intense anxiety as she approached.
The wind changing, caused her to alter her
course several points. About noon, they
f fortunately discovered man on raft near
} them, and succeeded in saving him, the second
mate jumping overheard and making a rope
fast to him, when he was drawn on board
lie proved to be Frenchman, who had been
} passenger on board the steamer with which
, we had been in collision. He informed the
t captain that others were near on pieces OF
! wreck, and, on going alof, he saw us and
three others. We were the first to which the
boat was sent, and we were safely taken on
board about p. M. The next picked up
was James Smith, second class passenger