Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-11-05
from the milwaukee American. es;h. !

THE WRECKS AT Pr ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Particulars. Several of the officers and agents
of our, city Insurance Companies returned from
Port Washington yesterday, whittier they had
gone to see about the wreck of the ill-fated pro-
peller Toledo. They describe the scene as an
awful one For two miles or more, the Lake
shore is lined with fragments of the wreck,
piled up, in many places, several feet high The
propeller foundered at her anchors, about 20O
yards North, and % yards outside of the piers
and the tremendous violence of the sea compile
ted the work of destruction IN a very few hours
The heavier portions of the hull have come
ashore in large pieces, but the upper works are
broken up into innumerable fragments All
the Dry Goods and furniture boxes have been
rent assunder by the force of the waves and
their contents riddled by the sand like sieves
and scattered far and wide along the coast Some
of the hardware, such as Eases Of axes, &c,
came ashore whole and was washed by the sea
far up the beach. Sandry barrels of liquors
came ashore, but it Is thought that 50, 600 will
cover the value of all that has thus been saved
Only one body had come ashore, up to Sun
day evening. 1t was that of stout middle
sized man, apparently one of the deck hands,
The captains trunk has also been washed ashore.
OF the forty or fifty persons on board the pro-
peller when she went down, only three, two
deck hands and n steerage passenger, were saw
ed. One of these deck hands, Aquila Clifford,
was on board the steamer Niagara when she
took tre and burnt to the waters edge of Port
Washington, on the 24th of September He is
not over 90 years of age, and it was his first
trip His second was on the Toledo, which
foundered very near the spot where the Niagara
was burnt. When the propeller settled, Clifford
Sprang into the sea and struck out for Shore
Presently he felt hand clutching at his neck
cloth, and to save himself slipped his head out
of the neck cloth, and saw that go down with
the poor fellow that had caught it, in hisagony.
With the help of plank Clifford managed to
get to the side Of the pier, but he had not
strength enough left to climb. He therefore
commenced halloing for help, at the top of his
voice, and presently heard answering shouts
from the shore. Before help reached him. how
ever, coming wave threw him on the pier and
he lost no time in making tracks for terra Jfrnid
1t is his impression that he will stay ashore
awhile this time
The schooner Bohemian lies broadside on,
high and dry, with but two or three feet of water
round her, some 200 yards south of Silverman's
pier. The vessel is not much damaged and my
be got off with favorable weather. She came
ashore, bows on and rs soon as she struck, the
sea made IL clear breach over her, sweeping her
fore and aft. The crew halloed Justify and fear
fully for help, and help was at hand. Some of
the people at Port Westinghouse their infinite
credit be it said-mauned the life boat, launch
ell her in the raging sea and pulled out gallant
ly forithe wreck. They reached her, and, in two
trips, got every man safe ashore, the captain,
Ike brave man and true sailor, sticking 10
his craft to the last.
Our City Insurance Companies have sustain
ed pretty heavy loss by their wrecks. 1t is
thought, however, that $4,000, or So, 900, viii
cover the entire amount, many of the goods hav-
| ing been insured below.