The Washington union., 1857-09-19


out for the vessel and reached ii when nearly exhaust
cd but was drawn board by ropes soon por-
ceiyed. The vessel proved to be Norwegian barque
from Balize, Honduras, bound for Falmouth, England
found on board of her two on three OF my com
rades and at 81 clock next morning we had forty nine
noble fellows board and these are all know OF
having been saved We straycd about the place until
thought that all alive had been rescued and then set
sail. .'1" ""Ft y All
We found the barque short OF provisions and the
living on Cruel We had some tea and coffee to refresh
ourselves WITH and at Saturday spoke the Amer
lean barque Saxony bound Tor Savannah, who supplied
us with provisions, and took five of board Our
names b. IL. Ridley Of Maine Jabez Hines, of San
Francisco Samuel w. Look, of Maine; Adolph Fred
erick, of San Francisco; and Henry II. Chids of New
York. Fa#t= a.f
The Norwegian barque set sail for Charleston Norfolk,
presumed with the balance of the forty nine passen
gers. Their names, unfortunately, cannot give The
few recollected Captain Badger of Baltimore Mr
Fraser, the second officer; r. II. Brown, of Sacra-
mento (; Billy Birch of San Francisco mnstrels; A.
j. Easton of San Francisco; - Fletcher, Of Augusta,
Maine. There Is lad saved seven years of age
whose mother with the other ladies placed ON board
the brig att Ga.5 EH.f aH faa. g a5 # a#
p S.There were three passengers that got into the
boats that saved the women and children who are
known to Their names William Priest, of Long
Island Thomas Payne Sanford, Of Connecticut and -
Jones. .r. ...-.r s
STILL FURTHER PARTICULARS.
The subjoined teegraphc despatch received this
forenoon: .''' WI" 'H '" ~
BAprMoRR, Sept. l9--TIe agent of the Associated
Press yesterday proceeded down the Chesapeake bay and
boarded the Norfolk boat containing of the passen-
gers of the Inflated steamer from whom he CLEANED the
following interesting particulars
NAMES OF THE PERSONS KNOWN TO
Vim. Lee, of Canada BENZ. Colt, Hancock. Illinois;
Hanson Herne and John Heme Missouri Richard Wal
ton Quincy, Illinois, James +. Birch Fall River, Massa-
chusetts United States California mail contractor; Ga
brie Brush, baggage master New York Charles Taylor,
North Carolina Samuel Shreeye, San Francisco; Dr.
Byanni, DIR. Gibbs, Mr.. Marin and Mr. Parker, Cator-
mia Booker Boston, Purser Dobbn brother of Secretary
Dobbin North Carolina; Mr. White Sacramento; Purser
Hull of the steamer New York Mr.. Hull brother of
the above Mr. Serona California; c. Van RENSSELAER,,
lst officer of the steamer; Capt w. L. Herndon, United
States navy commander of the steamer and the surgeon
of the ship, whose name is not given .-a .
The Norwegian barque Is the barque Ellen, mot the
Eoise, reported yesterday Capt A. Johnson from Ba-
lize, Honduras, "
MR. MASLrs's NARRATIVE '...a"
Mr. oliver P. Manlue gives the following narrative:
The storm commenced shortly after left Havana,
and continued with great violence increasing until Fri
day. On Friday afternoon all hands called up to
bail the vessel which continued to ship water All went
to work with buckets, barrels, &c. baiing, which con-
tnued all Friday night, and until Saturday about 2,
p. m, when the barque Marine hove in sight All the
ladies and children were put on her about o. p. m, and
the chief engineer left with them. ~ ,a. at .u a.N
In launching the boats two out Of the five stove,
and the other three were despatched with the women and
children about sunset. The Marine laying to about
mile off and by the time the boats reached her it be-
evident that the ship must down before they got
back Many seized upon pieces of spars chairs, and
lfepresrve while others rushed below to their
treasure. The confusion at this time became very great,
but all acted with coolness, all endeavoring TO make
last effort for their safety The vessel gave three
lurches, passengers jumping off at each lurch.
Those who went with the first and second urch had swum
off some distance, but the great remained deck
until she went down, which was about minute two
afterwards. ,"ta ~ ass 'ar
had provided myself with lfe-preserver and piece
of SPAR determined to down with the vessel and the
great of the passengers, all of whom stood about
brcing themselves and securing the most available ati
ces to. buoy them up She finally went down, stern
foremost was standing near the smoke-stack at the
time and all dragged under water with the sink
ing ship The general supposition is that drawn
under at least twenty feet when to the surface
We were nearly stfed. The rapidy with which was
drawn down tore the spar from my hands and the life
preserver from my body and when I reached the
face, my clothing almost stripped off how
met friend who had two lfe-preservers, and he
gave one, and also seized pieces OF the wreck
which helped to sustain us. 81. ..
On reaching the surface there were at least 400
gers struggling about most of them having lost their
epresevers others seizng pieces of the wreck
which came up with The captain had cut away the
upper works of the vessel that when the hull sunk
they would float Off but they dragged down and
came up in fragments, and doubtless many were killed
stunned and drowned by being struck with pieces of the
wreck Whilst TO others tey were the ultimate means OF
safety mm.. '.a#H..a#
Occasional flashes of lightning showed to each other
of struggling forms. All strove to encourage their
friends with hopes which felt by themselves
AT first we were all together in mass but soon the
separated u.s. and at each successive fash of light
ming discovered that being scattered over a
wide and found ourselves apparently alone
on the boundless .
The rest of the account does not differ from that
already received from Savannah He concludes by say
ing that "
- By about ten O'Clock | was picked up by the
Ellen and had the satisfaction Of finding several others
board" "#tt"t ''
The Empire City sailed from Norfolk yesterday at IL
o'clock, with ninety of the rescued passengers.
Several other statements have been furnished but 1t is
believed that the above contain all the most interesting
particulars.
LIST or TIKI oEFIoERs AND CREW
TRIAL AMERICA. sa##
Lieut. VIM. L. Herndon, commander ; Charles NJ Van
Rensselaer,, st officer James NJ Frazer I'd officer Chas
A. Myers, 3D. officer ; L. w. Hull purser w. H. Hull,
ship storekeeper brother of the purser John Black boat
swain Finley Frazer, seaman Robert Long, seaman
David Raymond seaman Francis Waters, seaman Jas |
Clark seaman James Iraves, seaman John Dawson,
Frederick Brewer, Richard Reed
man Samuel Lawrence, Edward Brown, sea- |
man Thomas Parker, VIM. jackson, seaman; |
Jas. McIane, Timothy McEvaen, boy Charles
H. Boyd, boy George r. Aashby, chief engineer John
ce first assistant engineer Henry Keeer, second as
sistant engineer ; George Buddngton, third assist |
ant engineer Donald Mcdonald, fourth assistant en-
gneer William Jones, fourth assistant engineer |
Joseph Clark fourth assistant engineer Morgan Badge
ley, fireman Martin Hyde, fireman Alexander Grant,
narI lin Sp,tth