Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-09-28
AwFUL ACCIDENT ar SEA !
puRN1Ne Of zee STEAMSHIP. AUsTRIA-Y1YYE HUN.

BURNING OF THE STEAMSHIP AUsTRIA-FIYE HUN.
DRIED AND THRTY.TRHEE PERSONS LOST.
In yesterday morning s telegraph appeatedsa 4
notice of the burning of steamer at sea- It
was suspected that she was the Austria, as she
has turned out to be. but fears were enters
tainedin New York that she was Cunarder.
Seldom indeed have the press been called upon
to record so terrific an accident as this one. Out
OF sis hundred souls on board only sixty seven
were saved. We subjoin the only Dispatches
coming to hand up to the closing, of this page:
New York, Sept 26,-No doubt the burning
steamer was the Austria, from Hamburg
Among the Cabin passengers were j. Bogel and
wife, New Orleans; Anna Paypers and; thrcet
children, st. Louis; Maria Parker, St Louis;
Wilhelm Sfachel Cincinnati. e - y 2 "a
HALIFAX, Sept. 27.lFhe steamer burned at
sea proves to have been the Austria. FwelYeot
the survivors have arrived here. There were in
all about Six hundred souls on board the i'll
ifated steamer, of which only sixty-seyen wero
saved. ;zlts4ssA4e
q The brig Lotus arriv yesterday with twelve
of the3sixty-seveh survivors of the destruction
of the Steamer Austria, burned at sea on the
18th. A passenger reports that at a little after
Q o'clock P. NJ. on the 18th 4 dense volume OF
smoke burst from the after entrance to the.
Storage. The speed she continued going until
the magazine exploded, when the engineers it
is supposed, were instantly suffocated, The Ere
next burst through the lights amid ships, spread
ing aft with fearful rapidity. A boat let down,
on the port side was instantly crushed, another,
on the starboard side was swamped from the
numbers rushing into it. All the first cabin
passengers were on the poop, excepting a few
gentlemen.swh must have been smothered 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 up through the ventilators, but the
greater number persisted in, the flames; a wo-.
man was drawn up who said that six were al
ready sutocated; severalmen and women jump
ed into the sea by t&os and threes; S ONE
OF the women were then already in flames,
others hesitated till driven over at the last
moment by the advancing flames. In half an
hour not-a soul wasteft onthe poop deck. The
French bark Maurice, Capt. Ernect Renaud,
came along side at tive O'clock, and rescued
forty passengers, who were chiefly taken off
the bowsprit; but some were struggling in the
water. At eight O'clock one Of the metallic
boats came up with twenty two persons, in.
Guiding the first and second officers, and sub
sequently four men were picked up floating on
piece of broken boat. The second officer WAS
afterwards rescued from the water. Both he
and third officer were severely burnt. Only six
women were saved; three of whom were shock
ingly burned. "A Norwegian bark went along
side Of the steamer the next morning, and picked
up few persons. The bark Maurice had no
Communication with her. We have not yet as
certained the names of the saved.
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