The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-22

VALENT1N LORENZ MEYER o
HAMBURG. LIVERPOOL NEW YORK o
Regent Road, facing O
OF, Steinhof the Bramley Moor Dock No. 80 West st.
Four five bodies came ashore on Brigantine Beach
this morning Mr. and Mrs Horner reported to ha
picked Up thirty bodies this Beach themselves Mr.
Fei hmin Turner resident of Brgantne Beach, thinks
that altogether between fifty and sixty bodies been
found there He deserves much praise the
dead. : -
One Of the found was about eighteen years Of
age OF handsome features and apparently American
The clothing of another of the victims about twenty
years OF age, showed her to belong the wealthy class
Germans She was beautiful looking creature even
as she lay in death On her fingers she two rings
one plain and the other having heart attached To It.
They were marked ''P. s." and 'sB. 81 1854.
Among the bodies is man who was apparently one of
II is reported that there have been about forty bodies
washed ashore on Long Beach.
This will make the total number Of bodies washed
ashore about one hundred and thirty
About hiy booes have been taken to Smithvle for in
terment Most Of the people here are afraid to touch
number OF women and children washed ashore had
nothing but their night clothes showing that the shin
all are badly bruised and ,.,en. ~sass MOI s
been by their most intimate friends One in
teresting tse girl about III of age in her
feet her right was knocked out and the right side
her face was black and blue.
little boy about eight years age came along side
of her His face swollen up to twice its sxe
man, apparently sailor who ashore about the
same tme had his skull broken The bodies had the
pcarance OF having been dashed against the wreck
The general impression here Is that tho bodies were all
rom the wreck OF the ship Powhatan which went ashore
in the dreadful gale Of the 18th, on Long Beach.
report from Little Egg Harbor states that German
picked up there alive. He has been delrious ever
since and OF course, we cannot get information
him.
We have just received report that the captain and
mate of the Powhatan have been saved Long Beach,
Several Of the dead bodies Brigantine Beach are re-
ported to have been robbed.
The Coroner has saved few trinkets &C. and will
no doubt send you description f them have not been
Some dead bodies have been picked up twelve miles be-
low here.
ABsEcoM April 2l-PM
From papers found on the beach, | have ascertaned
that the from which most of the bodies dred on
the beach, was the Powhatan, Capt Meyers from Havre
A trunk found marked Mr. -, Galveston,
Texas.
had been picked up but up to last evening learn from
man from the beach that the report unfoundci
ABsEcoM, April 21-11s P. M
There is again a rrnor that the ca ptain mate ana
wreck.
Tie captains brother in. law who arrived here last
night has to the beach to ascertain the facts the
The papers picked up in German, and are in the
bands of translator that cannot yet obtain the
names Of the persons lost
TELEGRAPHIC.
SHIP sAXoNf ASHORE ON THE COAST OF FLORIDA
CHARLESTON, April %, 1854
The ship saxony, from Boston, bound to Matanzas and
Liverpool went ashore the 9Th inst on the coast of
Florida, to the souward Of Jupiter Inlet The mate of
the saxony arrived here this morning in the steamer
Carolina from st. Augustine having left the ship on the
llth with twelve feet of water in her hold.
Several small vessels were ashore on Florida coast
LOSS OF THE PROPELLER PRINCETON.
DUEKIRK, April 21, 1854
The propeller Princeton, hence for Detroit loaded with
merchandise, sunk in the ice off Barcelona Some of tho
the ice endeavorng TO get ashore and It
not yet known If any lives were lost.