New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-03
LOSS Of THE RELIEF SCHOONER
SARAH S. BIRD.
TWENTY-THREE MEN DROWNED.


Our readers vii remember that on the 18th Of JaIu
schooner, the Sarah 5. Bird, to cr.e off the coa.t
and afford assistance TO vesses in distress. She was
manned in the best NADER and h,d Oh board O
OF twenty-five person, al tod. Her ou'f. the
most complete that could he devised and the vessel
was ore selected by Capt Van Nostrand himself aiter
deys search through the por, as the best adapted
e., the psrlous service which che was 10 undertake.
Thx expedition it viii be remembered, was sent out at
time when it wac probable that many vessels were
pear the coast in extreme distress, and it hoped
that much good would be done BY little timely as
ss,spoe 70 them in men and provisions The schooner,
however, has not been heard from since her second
cay out, ben sbe spoke the schooner vendora, Capt
Robbins finn Cape Hayten. It was feared that the
steamer Enpirt City sunk her the Eth Of January,
but it subsequently appeared that the resell which she
ran down wa. the schooner Worth. On the 2lst Of
February the plot-bost SyIpb, No. l, passed
schooners mast with rigging attached and the letters
as S. B." painted Oh the heel of i, % miles 5. by Il.
tf Barpegat, in ten to fifteen fsthoms of water It is
feared that TIL. mast belonged to the Sarah S. Bird, as
The former mate Of her states that those letters
rudely painted there az described by the pilot Capt.
Bovine General Agent of the Underwriters, called al
ter. The pilot said he took smalboat an went to
the mast 1t appeared to be attached to the schooner
below He says be raw winch on the mast Just be-
low the surface Of the water. Tho letters s. s. b..
were YaAteo on it in white.
This would seem to show cooclusivey that the
schooner il lost; but whether she driven ashore
in the terble gale Of the 18th of January whether
she foyuder at sea and has aimee dred into shos
water, remains a scaled question. By thus sad event
number of families have been bereaved and rendered
desiitute Below present leo far az could be ascer-
taiDedl the manner residences and number OF persons
dependent upon the men who have no6y lost tncit
live, in the service Of suffering humanity. We need
barely observe that any assistance to the Impoverished
survivors would he q charity doubly blessed.
Capt. Foster VAS SOsIR,sD, Rockaway, J.. l.,
wife and two children. .,
Capt. SAMUEL BREwEE, Rockaway, L. l., wife and
three children.
GEORGE SLOtS mae NO. I1J hlFUSlon o. oe''
wife.
THOMAS WALLES boy.
CoASTISC CAPTAINS.
JopN O'NFIr No. ~ Stanton street, mother.
DAsIEL SooEr, No. u Broome Streei, wife and two
children.
RDGAR WrLrTs Benpot.
ABRAHAM DBY No. 213 Sixth street, wife and two
children. .
THOMAS FAcAy, No 49, Rvington street, wife and
enc child
RICCyRa COMPOSING TuT CREW.
WV TERRY, No. 10 Carroll street, Brooklyn, wife
and two children.
JAMES WnITE, No. lOi Oliver street, wife and twt
RosERr HCrroS, Nor Monroe street, wife and five
children.
WGLIAa HU1ToE, No. 3lS Monroe street, one
child.
RICHARD FAGAY, No. 70 Monroe street; vito and tw(
children.
JonS LvycH, No. IS Sackett street, Brooklyn, wife
JOIN ELLIS, wife. =,
EDWARD WEIGH, No. y Ca7r,n street. brooklyn
wife and five children
PHTBR WARD wife.
joins MAI, wife and mother.
- BAkrIST.
And thee nan, names unknown.
A.. soon US the report by tie SylrA was made
Known, the schooner Margaret Ann Lake, Cop. Geo
Combs, was chartered by some OF the friends of The
lost marrers and on Saturday night set out 10 ysi
the locality in which the wreck of the Bird va, seen
to recover some of the bodies, il possible, and give
| them decent burial The persons on this schoone
rcle Js,. III. Perry, Ems neer Of the Board Of Under
writer's; Capt John Ferris, +. b. No.trand Edward
Parker Thos. Coots, Ri'hsrd Morris, Captain DAME
| BedeD, Robert Stocton, solomon Combs.
1t is feared that the schooner may have met viii
come dissssr during the gale Of Sunday night, but W.
hope that she was enabled 70 ride It out 10 safety
Meanwhile, the friends Of her crew are in gIea, sus
perse as 10 their fate