The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-09-30
TIE AUsTRIA'S CARGO.
Names Of some of the Lost.

Tie telegraph from Halifax has furnished the
Northern papers some additional particulars rela
tive TO the burning of the steamer Austria. The
| following ia the statement Of Theodore @. GlaE-
| bensklee:
At about % o'clock p NJ, Sept 10, being In my
state room, / heard the cry of FIRE" Hasteni ing
on deck. saw the flames breaking through the
middle deck. The captain was trying to get the
people out OF the second boat the port side, to
have it lowered. i hastenej to the fore deck to
keep the people from the boat. After few mi
mites l turned around to 90 to the quarter deck
but could not get through the fire. / remained
on the forecastie, the ship all the time going
ward against the wind. With the assistance Of
sailor, cut down the jibsails to throw into the
water, to use io checking the progress Of the fire,
but the people on deck did not understand
intention, and merely threw them into the water.
tried to discover something with which to
tue passengers, bat nothing was to be found. The
| spafs had been thrown overheard, and the buck
cts. being near the pipe, were all on fire. In about
half an hour, the f1remast fell, and shortly after
the niainmast, and abou: the same time the en-
gine appeared to stop.
Tic ship, which thus far had been heading west
gradually turned 60 the NORTH and finally to the
northeast. Soon after the boiler seemed to col
lapse, and ten minutes after the magazine eXplo-
tsd. by the turning Of the ship the flames and
smoke drove to the forecassle. The suffering then
| became intense. Our only hope now being in two
vessels in the distance, one Of which, which
afterwards proved to be the Maurice, approached
| us slowly the other, further of, steering west.
took no notice of us, although she was eignalled
TO do 30 by the Captain Of the Maurice. Having
taken my stand on the chains the larboard aide,
l gradually advanced forward to make room for
others. At about o'clock the Maurice sent off a
boat, and as soon as it came near jumped nto
| the water. and reached it. Seven others were
taken liz, and the boat returned 20 the bark. Two
boats belonging to the bark continued to ply to
and from the steamer, picking up all they could
until the darkness made it impossible to fnd more
# the sufferers Soon after sunset the first officer
| aud about dozen others came to the bark having
| saved themselves by a life.boat. Later some
| swedish sailors came ia part of a boat. aud MIR.
| Brew and a German In part of another boat
| Mr. Glaubensklee's account of the origin of the
fire comedies with that of MIR. Brew 10 every par
| ticuiar.
| The n Y. Times has the following:
| The report that the Austris's magazine expIod.
ed, her agent, Mr.. kunhardt, scarcely credits He
states that she never carried more than fifteen or
twenty charges of half pound each for her signal
guns, aud that half of those must have been fired
| at Hamburg aud Southampton; and the explosion
could not have come from the spirit.room, there
being none such on board, as the Germans are not
| addicted to the use of ardent spirits.
Tho Austria, being foreign vessel, does not file
her crew-list at the Custom House, and the consul
says that the only copy in existence on board
| tue vessel The only names no could recoect were
| Capt. Heydtmann Hahn, first officer, and Reydt.
mann, second officer. Both Of the latter report
| cd saved
! The Austria had also q large and valuable cargo.
| the insurance on which will fall the heaviest on
the other side, Wall street being Liable to a very
| email amount OF it. No duplicate manifest has
been received, and the names Of her corsigness
consequently will not be known until they are
received from Hamburg, unless the copy on board
| was saved, which is not Likely.
There are many specula.ions a. to the cause OF
| the Ere tbs said that come German merchants
| have been known to pack dangerous goods (chem
ics preparations in the middle of dry goods casss
to cheat the aReL out Of the high rates of freight
for extra hazardous freight. In this dishonest
way the ships are placed in great danger and there
| seem no means OF deiectngit. 1t is well known
that similar frauds are practced upon shipow uers
| sending ships south from New York But in this
instance it appears that the mischief resulted
wholly from the carelespess of the officers and sai
| lors on beard.
The cargo of the Austria included something
| over 10000 feet measurement-a little above 400
tous. The low rates of freight at Havre and South
| ampton, owing 30 tho competition between the
| Vanderbilt md Persia, prevented many shipments
thence, go that there few silk goods the fab.
rcs on beard berg chiefly wsolens and worsseds
The whole list OF earnings by freight and passeu.
gers, taken at the las. named port footed up less
| than t40O, There were some furs on board and a
few linens, the total value OF the cargo may be es
timated at $500 900. OF this amount probably one
fourth is not insured at ALL and the remainder it
| is fair to infer, is about equally divided between
cur own aud foreign companies, although the
total insured oD this side cannot be known fr
some time, as much of 1t is under open policies
The steamer cost $40 per ton, and was insured on
the other ride.
1t is a noticeable fact, that notwithstanding the
superiority claimed for iron steamers, on the
ground OF their security from fire. a steamship of
this description is the first of the traus
lines to perish from confagratiou.
Ofsome Of the New Yorkers who are missing
the papers of that city have the following parte-
u.ars:
| Among the cabin uhnsa
published, was Mrs Julia Ebbinghaus, wife Of Au-
| gustus Ebbiughaus, No. l4O Fulton street and her
daughter, Is years Of age. The latter, a beautiful
girl had been year aud halt at a ladies' semina-
~ 1T Lubec, aud was returning home with her
| mother who went to Germany to meet her. This
was all the family left to the now bereaved husband
| and father.
Mrs. Jegel, wife off. Jegel. No II Barclay street
aud her daughter Helena, aged six years. Mrs j
| sailed for Hamburg on board the Borussia, on the
18th of May, and has been vsiting her frieuds-
She was about 2S years of age.
| Miss Hadwig Dorntzsr was dau shter of Solo.
| mon Dornitzer, OF No.; ITO South Street, and was
| beloved by large circle Of friends.
| VIM. Sondhem. an extensive merchant In Lib.
erty street: with his wife and five children, aud
| W. Rosenthal, merchant in the same stree.
| with his vfs aud FIVE children, are all missing
| as are also II Welssenborn, musical instrument
| maker in Maiden Lane, aud Clemens Weisker, a
member OF the Arm Of Weisker Brothers, o John
sstreet.
| Among others missing are c, d. Tro't and Sam
| uel D. Masury, who are natives of Salem, Mass,
| aud we're on their return from Zanzibar. Mr. Ma.
| sury has long been estsbished at Zanzibar as a
successful merchant. Julius Busch, professor of
drawing in the Hartford Conn, College, and Carl
| Settman, formerly member of the Prussian Lee
gislstare, but resident of the United States for
| the last ten years. are also missing
| A gentleman from Igele by the name Of Ad
| Hermann, had with him his wife and seven chill
dren This is, no doubt, the person par cuIarly
referred to in the narrative of one of the passsn-
sul,n hnU Utnav ~ @fsnrH l..
into the sea, to prevent them from falling victims
the imes, plunged in and sank with his family in
| the ocean.
George KuhIman, OF Cincinnati was saved. but
| W. Stachel, q merchant of that city, and Miss
Emma Schramm and fifteen or twenty others,
| bound for Cincinnati are missing. The following
| persons are supposed to have been on board.
| Nine. Sachs, from Poisdam; Miss Loewenthal
| and her sster-in-lsw, from 1nstrossiez, Poland;
Mrs. l. Israel aud daughter; Clara Israel, from
| piermont; VIM. K. Bruill, of New York, from
| LchtenfeIr, Bavaria; Mrs. Caroline Holster and
sou Frederick, years old, Of No. So Ross street;
| Mrs. Steihkrsns, New York; Mrs. Tinsen, Cherry
street ii. Huberts wifes sister, M. 223 Front st
f. Hoffmsns wife's sister, No. 14o Water street.
Jacob Brodbeck, . coDfectioner, formerly Of
Washing gton, but late OF Alexandria. is believed to
| have been on board, as we'll as Mr.. William and
| Two children, OF the former city
The Tribune remarks:
The only instance that we remember in which
there has within the last few years, been greater
loss Of life in any vessel anywhere, 10 that OF
| the Peruvian ship Mercedes, which struck rock
near Calao, May l. 1854, aud sank, carrying down
$50 men, Of whom 73l perished.
The Haudels-Zeitung prints the following adci
tonsl names - believed to have been On board the
I Austria:
SECOND CAsIS-Mrs. Sachs, Potsdan; Miss ..os-
venthai aud sister law Justrosgn; Israel Israel
aud Clara Israel. Pyrmont; 0ppenhem and
children, Posen Caro- and brother. California
Bayser, California; Newman, California; Hor-
visx,r. California; Neubrusch, New York; =
Wolf New YORK; Aiwtne Cohn, Breslsu; David
Cohn, Breslau; two girls on silvsrstein; W. \.
Bruii, New York.
The names Of the Officers were
rA u.~a.nenn csstain: Hahn. 1st mate B.