The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1858-10-01

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the richest gold regions of the world
Destruction of the steamer Austria
l. The Vessel Burned at Sca-AppaII.
I ing Calamity.
! HALIFAX, September 27. - The
steamer burned at sea, proves to
have been the AuStria. Twelve ol
the survivors have arrived here -
There were in all about six hundred
souls on board the i'll fated steamer
OF which only sixty.seven Were
saved.
NEw YORK. September 81. There
is no doubt but that the burning
steamer va. the 1uStria, from Ham.
burg.
Among her passengers were J.
Bogcl and wife, of New Orleans:
Anne Paypeis and three children, OF
81. Louis; Maria Perkins, do;
Withcl Stocked, Of Cincinnati.
SECOND DIsPArcH. The brig Ia.
ms arrived here yesterday with
twelve OF the siXtv-seven survivors
ut the steamer .lUs1id, burned At
sea on the 18Th inst.
\ passenger reports that 1T n lit
tie alter ! o'clock. p. III. on the 18th,
4 dcuac volume o. smoke burst from
the after entrance Of tie storage.
She continued = ing at her usua,
speed until the magazine exploded.
when the engineers. it is supposed
were instantly snti'ocaied.
The fir next burnt through the
lights amidship, travelling aft with
fearful rapidity.
a boat was lowered from the port
side, which was Immediately crush
ed, and another on the starboarG
side was swampel, from the num-
bers rushing into it. All the first
cabin passengers were on the poop.
excepting a lew gentlemen, who
must have been sulothered in the
smoking room. Many of the second
cabin passengers were also on the
poop, but number were shut up in
the cabin by the fire. Some were
pulled mp through the ventilator, but
the greater number perished in the
flames. A woman was drawn up
who said that six were then suffo.
Gated. Several men and women
jumped into the sea BY twos and
threes. Some of the women were
in flames. Others hesitated until
driven over by the advancing flames.
In halt an hour not a soul was left
on the poop deck. The French
bark Maurice, Capt. Ernest Renaud.
came alongside at five o'clock, and
rescued forty OF the passengers, who
were chiefly taken from the bow
spirit, but some were struggling in
the water, At eight o'clock one OF
the metallic boats came up with
twenty-five passengers including
the first and second officers, and sub
seqnently four men were picked mp
floating on piece of a broken boat.
The second officer was afterwards
rescued from the water. Both he
and the third officer were seriously
burnt. Only six women were saved
three of whom were shockingly
burnt. A Norwegian bark went
alongside the steamer the next morn
ing and sent out her boats. She
may have picked up few persons
The bark Maurice, had no commu-
nication with her. We have not yet
ascertained the names of the saved.
LArER.-The bark Maurice pro
ceeded with the passengers on board
OF her to Fayal. A passenger says
that when the Captain OF the Aus
tria heard OF the lire, he rushed cn
deck, exclairning, I'VE are all lost;
let down the boats!" The boats
when lowered, were immediately
swamped, and the Captain fell into
the sea and was soon left far behind
The fire arose from culpable ne.
Igligence, while fumigating the steer
age with burning tar, under the su
perintendence OF the fourth officer.
The only British subject on boart
was Mr.. Brew, an officer in the Brit
ish civil service, on his way to Co
lumbis.