Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-11-19
Loss of the French Steamer lie Lyonnais.
One Hundred Lives Lost

One hundred Lives Lost
PHILADELPHIA, November ID IA O'clock
Mt is with the deepest regret that We
record another terrible disaster at sea-an g.
vent attended with incidents of horror and
suffering, almost unprecedented in the annals
of ocean peril. The iron screw steamship
lie Ly onnals, Capt Vaix, sailed on SATURDAY.
November /, for Uavre, with thirty nine cab
in passengers. Besides, there were on board,
including the officers and crew, engineers,
hremen and steerage passengers, near one
hundred and fifty souls
She also had twenty thousand dollars in
specie on freight.
On the night of the I'd inst while in fog
off the Nantucket lighthouse, a ship bearing
y. w, and distant sixty miles, was run
into ty an unknown vessel, and it is probable
that she went down Immediately. Not so
with lie Lyonnais.
She remained with her after part full of
water, and her bow high out of the water
All hands stayed by the wreck until next dav.
when it was abandoned. The ship was pro.
vided with six boats, only one of which was
a life boat /; that boat only has been heard
| from.
The following arc the names of the passen-
! gers saved: Mr. Shaler and wife, Flora Solo
mon, NJ. Domingo Mile. Ernestine Bollet.-
! Mr.. Shaler and wife remained on the Bremen
bark, the others arrived at New York on the
| Hamburg bark
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
The Hamburg bark Elise, Capt. Nelson.
arrived from Hamburg. She reports having
spoken, on the 10th, Bremen bark, having
on board sixteen of the passengers of the
French steamer Lyonn ais, which vessel was
run into by large ship on the night of the
I'd lust, and abandoned next day These
sixteen persons were picked up in boat on
the 9th, two others having died Fourteen
of the rescued were taken on board of the
/ Bremen vessel.
Among the saved was the second mate of
the Lyonnais, who furnishes the above. The
second mate, and those with him, left the
steamer on the afternoon of the Sd, and were
consequently six days on the boat The mate
says that 10 his knowledge the Captain and
ali the others on board, left the vessel the next
morning.
The collision occurred in dense fog at the
stem of the ship. which was cut clear off She
is supposed II have sunk Immediately, as she
was not seen afte. wards. The steamer was
abandoned next day; the crew and passen-
gers takl to her SIX boats and raft The
latter had forty on board, but it is supposed
/ they could not have lived through the rough
weather that followed
The boat picked up only life boat
On board nothing Is known of the raft and the
five other boats 1t is feared that those on
them. numbering about 130 persons, have
persisted. The Lyoruais was built at South
ampton, and temporarily placed on tie New
/ York and Havre line. She was still afoat
when abandoned. The passengers saved had
suffered terribly from cold their limbs hav-
ing been frozen.
The Lyonnais had hut small qusr tiiy Of
freight on board valued al c50, ,0Uo, which
is partially insured here The ship was built
on the Clyde, and valued at $3.50, coo. which
is insured in Europe. The captain of tle Vi
go, the consort of the Lyonnais, states that
the latter vessel was bull, with scvem water
tight compartments, and if all were gone but
two, the hull would still have kept aEoat.
The steamer Marion is to be dispatched i'm
nediately i'll search OF the steamer Lyennai..