The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-12-02
of the Loss of the New Era.

Bremen emigrant trade, our readers have
been named to learn, was lost on Monday
night by beaching on Long Island and over
tt1o hundred and SiTty persons perlshed.-
The New York papers now come to us with
all the heart-rending details, from which we
learn that there is evidence of the most
criminal negligence on the part OF the otf-
GERS and crew of the vessel, and that owing
entirely to a want of watchfuness, the ves-
sci was baached and lost. The Tribune says
1T would seem that few hours before
this event occurred the weather was fine,
as fine indeed as any experienced III the
course of d voyage across the Atlantic eX-
tending over d period of forty-slx days
The ship was new it was her first voyage ;
and we have heard no complaint OF her Or
eiinarv crew ing In any way lnethcleht.-
There was little or no fog, and the vessel
was in tine ncigAborhood Of coast where
the souadlugs alone will show almost the
precise position of a ship during the darkest
uiahts of winter. And yet this vessel,
fgeighted with living cargo OF Az human
beings. lies a total wreck on the shore, and
although some 260 lives are lost, there Is no
bar where the guilty ones-it guilty ones
there ba-can be punished; no tribunal save
that of public opinion from which those
lnanaled bodies can claim retrlbuuon.'
This is most emphatic condemnation,
but seems warranted from all facts which
have thus far come to light. The rescued
all testify to the same charge of negligence
ON the part Of officers. and there seems no
doubt but that this awful destruction OF LIE
was useless and could have been avoided.
Some Of the incidents are so heart-rendlng
as TO compel the reader TO shed tears. The
reporter of the Tribune, who proceeded to
lAe spot, tells this tale;
Watching an opportunity, as spent
wave receded, we leaped into the mi&en rig
cine. Such a spectacle as the decks OF the
New Era then presented we hope never to
be called to witness again. The forecaste
was b.atan in, and the top of the poop-cab-
in on the larboard side had large hole III
il that the waves had made. The deck had
been swept Of everything. The frames OF the
buiwarks stood above the waves, like the
feshi,s, ribs of ID leviathan, while protrud-
inc tlrop-l them were the bodies Of men
women and children, all Of them naked, or
but partia,Iy covered with the clothes they
had on when asleep in their b"rths. But
Inc most awful sight of ali was directly be-
low our feet. There, between the side OF
The DOOp-CdOln anu IlN HlA"~'' ''''~' 49,
q score of corpscs. all stark, stiff and cold
lav in every conceivable attitude OF agony
manned. crushed and bruised, with eyes
washed from their sockets, and teeth set like
vises. and every feature faarfully convuIsed
there. promscuously heaped together, were
cid men whose race had nearly run; young
.na,dens, just blooming into womanhood
uod babes whose lives were measured but by
weeks. Every age and sex had its represen'
tative here, and told in ghaslly types how
much humanity may suffer. The blood had
frozen into blackness beneath their finger
nails. and with the half clinched hand
showed how strong had been the grip on the
rigging-how long and fierce the strife fol
life--a contest in which they did not ylelc
qlntil the bleak blast had frozen their hearts
blood. and their unconscious hands hac
looseued their grasp, when their lives Wen
out into the dark night Swallowed up be
meath the seething waves that burst madIy
over the ship
What terrible record is this! VIII sucF
horrors ever cease? 1t makes us shudder tC
think upon the sea, so rife has it become o
death. and we begin to think there must be
some Judgment of Heaven let loose upor
man that so many of the race should thus bt
hurried into ocean graves San. Reg.
DIED.-We see by the Maumee Times tha
Elisha S. Frost of that place died on Wed
10l :,ct Tho ret yneIy n