New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-11-23
THE LOSS OF THE NEW ERA,

The New York Times of the 10Th contains full
particulars Of the disastrous wreck of the emf
grant ship New Era, on Deal Beach, New Jer-
sey. She sailed from Bremen on the 29th Of
September, with 424 passengers, the majority Of
whom were Germans During the passage she
lost forty by cholera, and two hundred and thirty
perished by the shipwreck, leaving but one hun
dred and hfty-fye survivors. The Times thus
describes the appearance Of the wreck, and
some of the terrible scenes attending the dis
aster au5 s4ttess4s a. @s5.4y 5ssA-
About hundred yards from the shore the vessel was
lying stsrboard side towards the beach, eb ied in
the sand the depth of twenty feet The vessel
careening slightly the larboard and her bows
slightly elevated Her migzen top gallant mast bro
ken OH at the crosstrees The topsas were se and
the vessel appeared from the beach her rigging did not
to be much injured The tide at full flood and
the larboard side with the deck and the
sarboard about two feet below The not running
heavily at the time but sufcientIy to break
the vessels deck between the tbers of the starbosrd
buwark the planks Of which had been torn away
force of the Occasionally the would wash
over the poop deck About midway up the main star
beard shrouds could be the form Of female in the
embrace Of DEATH her chilled limbs hanging through the
ratines. From behind the main chains could be seen
proruding the bare head and shoulders of another gasY
corpse and behind the rizren caps and partly
by sail which lying the side, could be sceraed
the bodies Of two three others Of the unfortunates
Capt. Davis. the Government schooner
the vessel went out in surf boat to the vessel and by
his permission eur reporter accompanied him On reach
ing the vessel and ascending the starboard quarter
horrible presented 20 view In intervening
about feet between the starboafd buWark
and the poop the bodies of dozen deceased
passengers, old and young and women youths and
maidens and children, lying in the greatest disorder
stripped almost entirely by the of the little raj
in had been able to reach the deck
the vessel had struck and the had commenced
dash in upon them The beating the poop deck
on which our reporter standing induced him to
cend short distance up the shrouds.
Here the peculiar of the confused positions Of the
remaining bodies became evident. The passengers had
assembled the shrouds has been previously stated
escape the violence of the Here they remained
until chilled exhausted and unable longer to sustain
in the place they had retreated to safety
they fell between the ratines, (mauy of which
broken) to the poop deck in instances ufictng
frghtful bruises, and peradventure, causing death
Here if not previously the work of death completed
The bodies washed towards the staroard quarter being
stopped in instances by the mzzen shrouds fell
between the bnlwarks and the poop in the al
ready described Capt Davis succeeded in dsengaging
the body Of the female entangled in the main sroud
which We spoke of being visible from the beach, 1t
placed in the of the boat and conveyed
shore Ii the body of young girl of about seven
teen years. with fair and sbeveled locks On finger
ring with the initials o. L. L. engraved upon it
None among the survivors at Mr. Aliens house could
identify the body from this description On the under
clothes of of the other bodies the initials
and those Of another the letters G. R. The hatch
in two instances that reporters noticed
uncovered and the water up to level with the
urface of the sea in the cabin.