The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1857-1858, 1857-08-19

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starved ~ s1c l1th my " 1une; ftOxa-(lee>v1.
burg, with 81 Swedish passengers, and twelve
officers and seanen, for New York. There were
seven families on board; the remainder were
siagIo persons; women predominaiing. Capt
Dailey's wife was with him. Nothing or special
moment occurred until the 2lst day Or July.-
About half past III o'clock at night tho bark
struck light Or the port bow; she was then 20
ing only about four knots IN hour ii wasyery
dark and 1oggy at the time. and although q
| good lookout was kept, nothing could be per-
ceived before she struck. The disaster occurred
il the mates watch. The captain ran up i,nnne.
diateiy from below, without waiting 10 dress,
aud jumping into the quarter boat which hung
on the davts, placed his wife beside him. and
shouted, s'Haul the main braces, We have struck
an iceberg" e ra.aF a40s89 a37.
The sailors sprung to obey his orders, and the
passengers ran out from the houses on deck.
and lent their assistance. Some Of the sailors
ran forward and lifted up the fore hatch, to see
II the water was gaining on the ship. They
found that it was already over the water casks.
Some Of the passengers and sailors worked at
the pumps while Others assisted in launching
the long boat, which laid On the top Of the fore
castle. Capt. Daley, during this time remained
in the quarter boat with his wife, and called
upon the steward to bring him water aud pro.
visions, which he did. Some Of the sailors aud
passengers tried to get into the quarter boat
with the Captain, but he said, s'Dont come here.
or will shoot you" We cannot eay whether
he had any weapons, but think that the stew
ard. at his request, brought him some. The
long boat was got out and launched. after much
severe labor, in safety. We could not tell what
object We had struck; We could only see some.
thing tall and murky looming up through the
mist, and believed it was an iceberg. The ship
began to sink rapidly, and Capt. Daley, with
the three or four persons in the quarter boat,
tried to lower that into the water, but found
they could not on account Of the nearness OF
the vessel 70 the object on which she had struck.
The Captain then, finding he could not launch
i, got out Of the quarter boat, ran to the port
side OF the vessel with his wife, and descending
by the mizzen chains with her, they were taken
into the long boat nv the mate and Others. -
The steward, who had been fitting out the quar-
ter boat with water and provisions to save the
captain and his wife now held lantern in the
mizzen rigging to enable them to get safely into
the hong boat No sooner had he and his wife
got into the boat, which was now pretty well
loaded. sixteen persons having taken refuge in
it), than he cried Shove her Oft from the Shin
Inc steward climbed up in the mizzen rigging
with his lantern, and cried, "0h Captain, are |
you going to leave me herce Captain DALEY
- 800 Ahts hS EcPchteu sew l
eral time. in tones of painful en,reaty. The |
captain said nothing more than '.Shovc of the |
boat" which we did as IL was deeply laden,
and would have been in danger of going down |
with the ship. We showed Off little from the
bark, leaving the passengers at work at the
pumps for dear HE. One of them jumped over.
board from the bows and tried to reach the
boat; out he persisted in the attempt. Several
oI the sailors only reached us by swimming
We afterwards learned from one OF the snryi.
vors on the vessel that the passengers when
they found themselves deserted BIZ the crew.
calmly left the pumps, and went into their ca.
pms, apparently resigned to their fate. We laid
turing the night about half mile from the
snip, but could not see 1t. We supposed that
'ome OF the people might be saved in the morn.
ng. The weather was very calm or we never
,hoa!d have survived. At dawn, the fog having .
disappeared, We could see land and found that ,
he ship had struck on rock las We ssbse.
luently learned) of Corbin Head, abou, miles /,
rom fishery called "Burin,' in BURN County, {, .
newfoundland. We also found that our vessel
lad not entirely sunk, but had gone down head !
oremost. The rigging was all standing as we
lad left it, and the ship was submerged for
yard aoott halfway up TO the foresail, and the !
tern was i've or six feet out Of tho water, but
vet by the spray. We found two passengers
nd the steward alive in the starboard mizzeu
igginE; all the rest were drowned Ii was
bout half an English mile from the vessel 10 $
'here We could land with the boat. We rowed /
shore and landed twelve OF our people. inciu. d
ing the captain and his wife, and the other (
our took the boat back to the bark, and saved {
nc steward aud the two passengers. The rock r
Salnst which the bark struck was at least c
hree times higher than her mainmast, and quite a