Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-09-30
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There were but six women saved, three Of
whom were burned, one in q shocking manner.
Captain Renaud acted with the utmost
kindness. He gave clothes as far as he could
furnish them to the suffering passengers, and
acted as nurse, doctor and surgeon to
to the burned people, dressing the.wounds Of
the females with a delicacy and tenderness that
eyinced o benevolent and amiable disposition
| did not see All officer Of the ship during
the fire, and am certain there was not one Of
them or the crew on The poop, except a man
at the wheel for d. shg2Rsz tiuae. understood
that when the Captain heard OF Che fire, he
rushed on deck withylit d cup, and when be
saw the flames, exclaimed. ave are lostl''-
he tried to get out q boat, which, when let
down, was swamped, and he, whether acciden-
tally or not, L do not huow, fell into the sea,
and was soon left far behind The fourth Of
icer was in the boat. He cut her loose from
the davlts; she was carried under the screw
and smashed, and several in her drowned
three or four men escaRed on a fragment, and
were picked up by the Maurice, as before sta
ted. About the same time one metallic life
boat was let down from the port bow end
|swamped, but got cleared away with about
thirty-three persons in her, including the first
and third officers and several women The
men in the boat capsized her two or three
times, in trying to clear-her of water. Ten
persons we're thus drowned, including some
women. They afterwards bailed her cut with
life preservers cut in two, and pulled to the
Maurice, having picked up W o or three pas
sengers before reach ng the bark. Altogether,
there were sixty-seAfs louis taken into the
NJ -. ~, +lo W*X#*4
A Norwegian BARI e up with the stea-
mer the next morning, N5d q boat was obsery-
ed going around the burning ship. They may
have picked up a few persons. but only a few.
At about 7 O'Clock the Maurice sailed for
Fayal to deposit the rescued passengers. At
about 2 o'clock the same afternoon she fell in
with the the bark Lotus, of Yarmouth, Nova
Scotia, from Liverpool, for Halifax. As /
was anxious to get on British territory, Capt.
Trefy kindly gave me passage, He was also
anxious to take all the American citizens, but
there was such q rush of foreigners into the
boats that only one losd of eleven could be
got off, and even several of these were foreign
ers.
The fire is. known to have arisen from very
culpable negligence of some of the crew. The
Captain and Surgeon considered it expedient
to fumigate the steerage with burning tar
The operation was to,abe performed by the
boatswain, under the superintendent of the
fourth officer. The boatswain heated the end
of a chain to dip in tai to produce smoke
The end became t6c@rho dc and he let it
drop upon the deck, to which it set fire. The
tar upset, and Immediately all about was in
flames. A feeble attempt was made to extin-
guish ii, but without eject. There was moth
ing at hand to meet such an emergency.
The rescued passengers saved nothing but
the clothes on their backs, and even the grea-
ter part of these we're torn eff and otherwise
lost.