The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-20
TIE LATE TERRIBLE sHIPWggCEs.

| Wrock OF the EmtgraBt ship Ham soA"'
Later from shc Ship Undersvritcr-W Gees
Mt LcSsss, Delaware, &C., sc.
II reported in Wall street Yesterday that the
SCI lost at Barnegat the Hamburg shin Humboldt u
Hamburg. she was commanded by Capt Pausen, end :
left Hamburg on the Goth February last bound TO thus
port, with, it IA stated from 400 500 passengers
later dospstch, which viii be found below says il Ia
ship Powha,an, Of Baltimore, from Hayrel
From the following despatch it would seem the vos It
fears have been realized concerning the fate Of her ma
| sengers--
/ PmrADMJmA, April 10, 1854
despatch Just received from Absecom says that uys
to last night about forty dead bodieslnen women ana
chidren--had been washed ashore on that beach and
Briganne beach, about quarter Of mile across the
channel Those seen by our informant appear TO b,
Germans. They all much dishgured, however.
Bodies washing ashore all the time at Absecor.
| bed was also found further up the beach, bst
nothing has yet been discovered to indicate the name Of
| the lost vessel
The Humboldt was fine ship Of 100 tons, nearly new
having been built at Lubec on the Baltic, in 1853
The packet ship Underwater ashore ut Squan
tinues in about the position The steamtus Hua-
tress left there at O'Clock yesterday with the
sengcrs and landed them all safely in the afternoon ut
| the foot Of Jackson street, East rFer.
Tho steamtug Levathan, which despatched BY
the underwriters Tuesday evening her assstance
returned yesterday morning, without being able to
muncste with her, owing to the heavy sea-
The surgeon Of the ship arrived town Yesterday
having PREVIOUS evening" sates yhat
sixteen feet of water forward and fourteen aft She
lies head of shore the outer bar When he left an
sails set but the wind too Light TO her
She does not leak nf any consequence.
About hundred tons Of railroad iron and tin had
been thrown overheard, and it expected she would
be got of al the steamtugs could operate
upon her.
Tho underwriters have despatched two other steamtsgs
and the wrecking schooners Frank Pierce and Wave To
ncC xkoI Cxa kfu ho o.x~At
up to the city to-day.
Two OF the of the steamer Delaware stated
to been drowned by the upsettng of their bos
their endeavors to render assistance The Delaware
bound hence to Philadelphia and had been lying
chor inside the Hook, weather bound since Saturday
The steamer Huntress, Capt. Bird up last night
with four hundred passengers all in good health
She also brings the body Of Of the who lsst
in the yawl Of the steamboat Delaware.
The steamtug Titan, Capt Cummsky, also up,
bringing the balance of the passengers both from tho
beach and the vessel
Capt Bird reports the ship having two feet water in
her hold standing up straight with royal yards ACROSS
and has received thus far damage except sS
her rudder Sine will have to discharge before being got
Of she il beddod In the sand about Eve feet Aft and
| about three feet forward.
The Hamburg ship Humboldt Capt PauIson, from
Hamburg February 20, and Cuxhaven March Z, with
merchandise and passengers for New York is now due
and she most likely il the ship ashore She CON
| signed to W. +. Schmidt Co., Of Wall street
report was received in the city yesterday afternoon
That some thirty or forty bodies ashore at Abseco
beach, but they did not probably from the Hum.
boldt, Absecom is thirty miles below Barnegsk
and it is not likely the bodies drift that distance
without washing ashore particularly where thcy had e
! pass by Great and Little Egg Harbor inets.
vessel shore Brgantine Shoals would 90 -
pieces in short time, and those bodies probably came
from . third vessel wrecked that dangerous place.
The steamtug Underwater will proceed to Barnses.
this morning
There reports in that two other ships wers
ashore further south but they had been confirmed
The following despatch gives further melancholy n
! tellgence of the effects of the storm
| PmIApELrmA, April 10, 1854
letter from Lewes Del, dated Monday last says that
the storm was most furious there, unroodng houses
barns, &c. Seven vessels blown as,ore-one a her
niaphrodite brig, (name Ynknown) from Norfolk for
Boston, with The crew in the rigging except
one who swain ashore The schooner T. B. Aston from
New York, with cargo Of lime took FIRE and was oou-
sumed with the exception Of her sails and rigging The
schooDers Bailey and Minerva also ashore the
latter had but recently been got OF at expense o
$500 The heavy that boat could live in
il Seventy sail remained in the breakwaer The bodies
Of two women man, and boy, were washed ashore
on Ahsecom beach on Monday. They appeared TO have
been emigrants. The youngest woman had the thrd
finger two gold rings, plain the other had small
gold heart attached to it with link. The woman
had the letters IN D. marked on some portion of her
bodies had been found.
We are afraid that the full effects OF the tempest have
| not yet reached Among the innumerabe quantity
of vessels trading at this time along the south
and West India ports it will be extremely fortunate
IL driven ashore in tho terrible weather that
visited US during the past few days,
LATEST PARTICULARS.
| PHILADELPHIA, April TO- 1854
lcter received at the Ledger Office from Long Beach,
dated Monday states that ehe ship Powhattan (pro-
badly the ship Powhattan of Baltimore, which left
Havrc with emgrans about the Ist Of March-she was
old vessel of about ak hundred tons, and ia not
likely TO have had much cargo ashore about three
O'Clock Sunday morning, miles north of Eng
Harbor Light. She had about hundred emgrants ON
board and no soul saoed and vsstiqc Of En-.
ureet remoirs. Ihiety.tbrec dead bodies have been
picked up here
The schooner Manhattan, Of Bangor, Maine, was ass
wrecked in the neg borhood all hands perish
ed Of the crew, who Is in such condition a.
| to be unable to give any particulars
PHnADMPmA, April 19-P. n.
We have just received despatch Absecom which
says "a portion of the beading OF a vessel has beeu
washed ashore II has cut stamped upon 1t Packet
-sponord-Iivcrpool-bo to dock-1s5-EAst
river The surf still brings dead bodies the shore
and the total number found thus far is 6fty-eghtn
letter from Lewes states that the schooner reported
ashore there with corn proves to be the Octavia AN
the crew were rescued. She was complete wreck ana
her cargo floating along the beach. The schooner
Lenity (erroneousy reported the Bailey) is also com
plete wreck, her keel being out and the mainmast
through her bottom The other vessels ashore will bs
got Of Their names schoopers Francis, Fashion.
Minerva, sloops Eliza Jane David vannerman. Ne
lives lost.
SCHOONER NEBRASKA BURNED AT SEA.
despatch from Charleston says that the schoooer
Nebraska, from Port avacca, has been burnt at ses
Vessel and cargo valued at about go 0oO insured in
| Wall street.
Board OF Supervisors.
APRIL io.-His Honor the Recorder in the Chair
On motion, the Committee on Salary Of the Tax Com
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