New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-19
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But to resume; the passengers after landing were re
ceved into tie Different dwelling houses along the she'e
ard kindly ard for Their was avery unfortunate
oreloy but poor the best and by the wreck taey
lot al ter lite property On Friday morning neaEy All
Of them went up to tho city together with The crew. on me
stem ;Ug tisn
II ship nowlyng little her larboard side deeply
tssd,d II the sand Her head quatrs the shore and
her bow Is in abou; iIrte feet Of water Ct ebb tide The
ga fow1d In and out through h rn and choked up her
cabins and seerege with sand Is she has listed Oh the
slsre h,r aIboord side nearly submerged at hsh water
On receiving the intelligence on Thursday from her
Ca,uin Ter consigDets, Messrs Eagle & Hazard seat
dcEu tie Titan with a steam pump u her relief The pamp
VI, got on boarc and the ship placed und r the CON nand
ofCspain Ers wreck master OF the Atlantic Insurance
Conptuy lie obtained twelve riggers from New-iorx'
ara about hryf,e OF the coast fishermen and tired 10
runp her out Finding this mpractcabe until the stern
was boarded up he set gang Of carpenters to work. and
the, have nearly completed the task OF baenng up the
lrelen stern by p anking and salco,h
I.ent Oh board her yesterday afternoons she appears
huele strained her knees al close up and the only
sion Of starting were in two three of the panks OF her
.rerdeek In It's fa, the main mast, which snapped OF
boy the decl broke two Of the beams Of the pardeck
auiShirs The cabins and all the fine work about her
have been Knocked to pieces and the debris is floating
abot inside in the water the larboaTd side While the
s,orr Las been repairing, Capt Ellis has not been idle
RipGug pair shears, he has been busy breaking out
the argo and getting II into lighters The following cargo
Las reudy been sent of to the City 80 casks 2s9 cases
50 bes &C crates 81 sacks sat As no lighter was at hand
on Tuesday afternoon CO were landed on the beach IN
surf boats and taken during the night to the Ocean House
Most Of the above goods more or less damaged by the
salt water.
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ton Of assisting stranded ships receive only 90 per day for
risk rg their lives and working in the water from sunrise
70 sunset After sunset on Tuesday returned TO old
Captan Vests house at Long Branch and got into con
verssou with some of the old Solons of the place AMI
such tales of shpwreck and disaster they spun of have
rarely heard before learned the full and authentic
count of the loss of the old ship North America the
baokeDed remains of whose hull | had observed %
rassed the init at Sandy Hook Then they told me OF the
Henry CLAW which went ashore in 1896 and lost IS OF her
pessergers bv drowning. Next followed the Minturn,
Western World and host of others We sa, around the
fire for several hours this gosspng fashion, and many
tale beard Of shipwreck disaster and death
Not long since a Southern bark ashore here in
storm and went to pieces and the Captain after vany at
teurtpr TO save his wife and child them snatched
from beneath his very feet by huge breaker and carried
out into the undertow In February 1885, there were no
less than wrecks on DtdCu a. one
are the dangers of Long Island Shoals But there is some
times matter for fun mere. Mr. Warde the present
Government officer here succeeded to the post 80 long and
bonorobly fhod by his father the old Major Like his son,
the old Major was below the medium size One day Por
tueuese ship got ashore and the old Maor came down to
perform his duties He went alongside and told them to
lower rope as he wished to on board. After
some demuring, the Captain told him he might
come himself but he would let no more it seems
be was afraid of them. The old Major went up
the side, and the Captain, looking at him.
from bead to foot said they all of his size they might
come aboard right off Immediately following the MAJOR
was big six feet two fellow and broad in proportion
When he presented himself the captain thought he had
ouite enough aboard for that time Talking OF great men,
this place is rather prolific in of breadth and bottom
have seen quite number who full six feet in hight
and two and half in diameter
But as Lave for the present exceeded my limits OF time
and space must reluctantly close my letter and acquant
auce with Long Branch and its hospitality until the sum
MGR.
p SIN passing near the wreck just now, see the mer
have been compelled toleave the ship has come on tc
blow quite strong The only change OF saving her conn
uan,e Of fair weather 1t il thought that two or three pan
which were washed ashore this morning from her bot
tom This can only be determined when the steampumI
is set to work J. W. Z.