Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-09-28
Tho Burnt Stea mship.

On Friday last, we published telegraphic
despatch stating that the ship Rosenheath,
from Glasgow, passed September 18th, about
midway between Halifax and Ireland,
large steamer on FIRE, and that an hour be-
fore the bsrquc Arabian, bound for Halifax,
had passed close alongside Of the burning
steamer.
We are now informed of the arrival of the
baruue Arabian at HALIFAX, on Saturday
morning. Her captain reports that, At seven
O'Clock on the muIning OF the 10Th instant,
be fell in with an iron scrcw steamer Oh ire,
Apparently Of twelve hundred tons. She
had a gil, crown eagle head and a straight
stern head, raked we'll forward, and her bot
tom had red paint on. Her upper works
we're DESTROYED, and the wood work above
and below was all consumed. Her masts
we're zone and her sides were falling in
The funnel was lying on the starboard SIDE,
hut its color could not be told. The Ara
bian passed round the stern OF the steamer,
On, no name was distinguisbabe. She L.
supposed to have been burning iorty-eigh,
hours. The Arabian sighted brig tour
miles to leeward, bot could not deSery any
boats or signs of sufferers IN the distance.
TIE New York papers state that the de-
scrip,icn given OF the lost vessel makes 1t a.
most certain that she was either the Austria
or the Alps, while the statemen: as to the
tisnre-head would seem TO show that the
farmer is she il-iated steamer, that ot the
Alps being merely scroll-head, while the
Austria's waa an Austrian eagle.
The Austria had on board about two hun
dred and fifty persons, including many Ter
mans resident in America, who bad been
spending the summer in the old county,
We annex the list Of her cabin passengers,
amongst whom are T. Eisield, the well,
known musician and conductor OF tae Phil-
! harmonic concerts in New York; Theodore
| Glaubenskee, Professor of German 10 the
Free Academy, Maryland; aud Ii rmann
| Thorbecke, a Wei,-kncwn German OF Phlii'
dcphia
Herm Sopdhaim, wife, and five children,
New York 5. Kisitaif, Mindcn; Miss Bridget
Loughlin, Carl Nettman, New York; }. b
gel and wife, New Orleans; Mrs. Emile We
zin aud three children, Ph!ladclphis; Miss
Therese Won Mengersh.usen, Arnsberg; ].
Esteld, Mrs Julie Eoblugh.us and d"ugh,
ter, A. Weissenborn, New York; Mrs. A"na
! P.ypars aud three children, Miss Maria
! Horken, ST. Louis; Gustav kOhn, konlgs
terc: A. L. Wiedmann, New York; JacJt
Frindly and wife, WiGteisdUrt: Il. Nelskrr,
New York; Will. Stacbel, Cincinnati; Miss
Hedwig DJrmitzer, Hamburg; Mrs. Sophie
J,gel and child, A. NJ. Starmunt New 4yrk;
Miss Caroline H1wtz. Copenhagen; +. Cor
risen and WIFE, Hamburg; Miss Helene
Wulf, Copenbsgen; W. Ro-enthal. wife, and
five childrco; Miss Lena Meyer, Miss Mlnna
Smith, Th Giaubeck4lce, New York; FIR,
Bartes, San Francisco; c. D. Trott, }. B
M.ssury, Zanzibar; Hermann Thorhcckc,
Pailadelphia; Joseph Hope, Ell. Adelsdor'
fer, Ed. Bo,el, New York; K. V. Durieldt
Dresden; Al. Hermann, wife, and seven
children, Igeo; julius Busch, New York.
Besides these, the Austria had large
number of storage passengers. Her freight
is very valuable, consisting 10 great part oi
velvet and elk winter dry goods.
The New York Herald THE Aus
trla had eight Lille boats, which could nor
contain anything like the number OF paSsen
gers she had on board; but as the Arabian
reports thst she had the appearance Of hav'
ing been burning for only about lCrty-eigh'
hours, aud alter saIing rourd her Hnd max
lag close C2bfD!BdliUii Vi tIc "itNh,
signs of lite were discovered, or boats bo'
dles, spars, Or remnants Of RATS, there is
every reason to hope that every body on
, board had been taken of the wreck. II
such had not been the case there would have
been some evidences ab"ut the wreck, Tor we
have bad abundant instances OF the support
of life at sea for much longer periods than
torty.eight hours. Every vest!ge OF five
hundred or six hundred people struggling
for Iife with boats, spars, and materials ~
build RATS, could not Otherwise have disap-
pearcd in two days. nor even III week
! The spar or remnant of raft seen by the
ship America, being some five HUNDRED miles
to the westward OF the scene of the WRECK,
vas too far dlstant to have had any cynnec'
| ton with the burning Austria. The brig
seen by the Arabian some touT miles to the
| leeward may have the passengers on board,
or they may have been taken off by some
other vessel, perhaps some eastward bound
steamship, in whose direct track the wreck
| Of the Austria was found"