Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-06-13
BURNING OF THE STEAMBOAT CITY OF NEWARK.
POUR LIVES 10 T-REMAINDER OF THE PAS.
SENGERS RESCUED


The burning Oh Tuesday morning Of the steam ferry
boat City OF Newark, plying between New York civ
aud Newark y. j., IL the bay OF Rubuin. Reef VA. rt
"r lngiul affair, aud came being a very s-riou.
one. She bad board about sevrnty.Gye .r,,gr-
and great confusion aud condemnation prevailed Their
Wa quantity vi tar board, which soon caught fire
aud accelerated the destruction OF the boat and increased.
the freight and confusion among the passengers Fotu
halelS the steam ug- Achilles aud COmmodn. and tli,
steamboat Thomas Hunt ~ her vicinity aud ir,,4
dately went u her relief. BY the aid of the CAPTAINS
aud crews "i these steamers nearly all the passengers
"er taken oil and landed IA -sety From various state,
nen-, however il appears certain that one woman and
probably two others aud a child we,c drowned
Capt GeJuey. at the Achilles says:
"Mhen lac reached hrr Ice boarded puttin, tl. Lnv, ot
The tug 'n her starbonrd quarter; upon tins portion o
me boat there were mostly women aud children Who wrt,
almost unnhnagcablc from fright and suffering some ha
wing their eyebrows burnt oil other, t.ir b,t st,i,
aud some then hats burned aud hair -ngd; they Wrr
tumUlrd the bows into the tug very uncerepoi,
some OF the crew OF tho tug took the small boat aud
assisted al They could IN the lho.e on the Tor
"h'i part O The steamer The only accident wa with
t"' ~ the small boat which owing L, the tu.l I ,,
pie wh- once clpszed aud all Who we're n her tnrrc, in
To the watr, three or ionr Of whom CAPTAIN tiadnry
thinks, were dOwned-l man. two children and a woman
though Ice = unable 10 state positively ~ ~ any that
| Is the impression OF thofe ~hO we're Ly"
lazy passenger, Who wn4 on board with her little hoy
/ says:
OF tie boat Wis crowded that in order Ia ,scan fla.
lanes vas obliged to climb over the railing ami vii
along The edge Of the boat outside holding myself ON b
the railing aud holding my boy the saline time r., hi,
TINE the awning on the upper deck had caught fire and
the cndcrs were dropping down uyon u.s. My dress wa.
badly burned. just before the Thouns HINT -.
boat mad been lowercd and NV several ucn and two
women jump into t. The boat Immediately cip.il, and
think both Of the women we're drowned One nf tbc,,
~. stout lr'h woman, and the other young lldy In A
PINK dres-. And old gentleman whose name * S,,uu.l
Power, farmer tom WcsimOfcltnd county "A. r.c,rl
by Capt White Of the Thomas Hunt Just a. he was rt
ing The third time The railing Of boat ~ which the
cable Wa listened giving way and If IL had
thefo must have bccn great loss Of lie NJ the ss-r
/ board the Thomas Hunt
Cht- Rnnuel' Of the hand, on board stated tina,
woman tried ~ jump h. the little boat and raped into Il
watei, vhcreupOu be- leaped IN 10 save her and ga, 49,,
god % The bottom. Ac succeeded IN raising with her Ia
the surface u the water but dragged back again aud
was almost downcd that he had to tear himself from
/ her a. save his own lie.
The burning steamer then tOved ~ the Ger.ev fate
where she nOE ies sunk ~ about ~ feet water The
boat cost about sl5On and il insured for only 900
The q. $ Surveying steamer IIeizel Lieut. Command
ing Amy arrived NJ Norfolk Saturday evening C,m
baltimore. She ordered 70 survey Ocracoke inrt ON
the coast " North Carolina
Sven sharks last week caught uith hook and line
on ChUlc.ion, $. g., by party Of gentlemen Who vr,t
hstiug Tor hepurpose Que shark was leet 4 incbc,
long
The Ptrkersburg Courier says the Ohio va ~ los. {,
the scale nj being that point on the 9th t,, ali h,,
storm shee steamers are ashamed ~ ifs acquaintance
The proposition % annex Chelsea IN Bottom on vo,,
oi thr c'bciS, vas defeated Hbost 2, Lon majority
WIN jenkins, wholetve- three children in Washington
CITY, died At Ctsio, May %. while hs way from San
Francisco.
u senator T1ombs, u Ga aud family are at sarator
~ SPRING.
Prot Dimi,ry is translator Of the STATE Departop,
at Washington.
DigD rRoN GMu-The Hagoistown Totchligbt pub.
hshcd. irW weeks ago Oi the s- and s,rvs
ton ~ two chiliren in Uuion township Bedotd com
~, Pa Since then The mother ~ thee rilren has fol-
lowed them to the spirit l,, having died rom cycessive
grief and Inc i'll IN