Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-04-28
The Wreck OF the powhn,tan.

rlght administration OF our national affairs.
The Wreck OF the powhattrn.
The approximations Of disaster by the recent
gale have been sadly verified. Another fright
ful catastrophe is added to the terrible list of
the winters wrecAo The large ship reported
inNew York papers, Of the 18TH. on shore upon
the Coast Of New Jersey some sixty miles
below New York. and which it WIS feared
would not out last the gale. which prevented
all help from shore, wa, the Powhattan an
emigrant packet. On Sunday night the ship
went to pieces, and not man, woman, or
child, Of over three hnudred souls on board.
reached the land alive
1t appears that three hpndrea end e,syqn
lives were lost by this awful disaster,
mainly Of German emlgranta Th5 ship
wee an old one, owned IN Baltimore. and
on her voyage from Havre to New York.
The storm in which she was lost is represented
to have been the hercent north-eastor which
has visited the coast for years, attended with
sleet and snow. and very cold-while the
violence Of the breakers, which was almost
unprecedented, (the turf, according to one
statement, rising to the height ci enc hun
drod and fifty feet and teen washing over the
musts Of the vessel from Blrne-at village ten
miles off, prevented all attempts to get on
+ shore or 10 convey aid from the beach although
ior ,oora th,,, ,,,..r+,. r.,r r.,.r, ~,
shrieking sufferers ware within hail from the
/ land Long Beach is about twenty miles
long AMI varies from one hundred to i've
/ b,,,lr.d ,.,rl, :, ,,.;l-a J. !. r,,r, +,,,
+ t"0H'y-"'7 Ir7' '''- 'ls i9''I oil IA- set.
Inc ground 10 not-lng more or less tran an
immenee sand heap, r'isl.niag in t,.es,n. and
has M inb,hitantq c,,srt ,yv, or t,r,a ,,,.,,
..,4;oo,d ,h.ro ~. t,, 'r...,-,,... ....,.,.-
'''40''-' '''o-- - ''1 -'''''-''' " iei''~'
ali tAe29sIstdnceln their power to shipwr5cEed
mariners. thrown nv tie flrce OF wind and
/ tiN7 imam g.. i,l,.,t.,,l, sl---e
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/ gives the lolo"ing succl4ct account OF the
ca, lstr9rhe
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''u- 80 ~. = ''' W me crI' mon .HF' an"
49, .s.Sl. L II! '-'-..a, DuiI'e 'ie 4" y
'"l s-,P 80 VS. Sl"N. "'' i'7-"-,IS'
ana WlIH tne sun ran oUt cGol i,t Withln
NV !"IN3 VI '''' W'iN" loun"
9ul ID re ''9 sup 4.0', ''.al' C%ft; AYERS
Inc SUIT ran mo'!'"!hs "l2 indeed never
saw S"ch g." ~ my NE CaPt' Myers
""t'e' nv VHIout ms APe"NlnS trumpet
ana "SAsu me 'or Ood sN%e % Try ana save
some OF Inoe5 VINO mig happen TO wash
ashore tolu nm 4aI been down the
Ie"cl 10 where inc nJ.ie7 came on sAoEe, nut
found them dead all crowned before they got
han Wy 10 the beach A2out o'clock ?.
NJ on sunday the snip keeled over 20 wind
ward l!om the shore Inc sea then OF c'ar+e'
BEN to he w.syoI on IN g,,,, nnpafrs Tbe
sea running mountain Li5a, and completely
hiding the vessel from my view could no
tons,i "0'I' any .o.uiH u.iiIHtIoh Tilh tne
and loizen mo.ts s,,n vent ~. the b1,rd and
bod IS appeared floating in the surf in erea,
nun ''Fs, some - lead bodies, mostly women
6 About dark the sea rose to a great height
t ana one large wave i'dlya hundred feet high
e struck the unfortunate vessel ana IN on'
lioHlS"t TINS nun was tCattoIeu inVo iragment'
wHicn toSscd wlidly through inc suri' Luz
: ehfieks OF the drowning creatures were mel
8 anGholy indeed out could render them NJ
$ ana, as the sea ran 50 h's3 Could not Sc
n near lug ~, g9ihIoltunutSs lColI IN ie" mo
ii1H's al ulea Pl'alI' 1."edtH the surface o
- tne "u'er' e@1el le" fragments o. IN
y WEecR' -Ne'er ana see Such sisht IN N,
t nag. Sc, az rolneinoei Witnessing fUoi
n oleao!u! gaze or s'ch a Hls '-lNHnihS sea
~ Ia many placSs II mace complete bfoicho
ra,r clllr, a'i' ~ a'il,t' no uog In%h
p,oi III, i.-'o '''y '') o-u'liH H. ~
n 80 i, ~ o!i'i'.i y ON ''.e p''sfi
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70 In mortality tins wreck eclIpses the awll
e ones which have zone before it The loss fror