The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-10-06

ing ship until the last moment, as the
height was twenty-five feet, and were
only at length compelled tosshrow them
selves off to avoid a moro painful death.
In q half an hour not a soul was to be
seen on the poop. 1 pulled after the
ship and picked up a German who was
swimming strongly; I got him beside
me on the boat and VIC padded after the
ship with the laths. 1 nov saw a vessel
under sail approaching; she reached the
steamer about 8 p. NJ, we continued
pulling towards them, and about half
past 7 o'clock, after being FIVE hours IN
the water, got within hail of the sailing
vessel, which put off a boat and took us
on board. She proved to be the French
bark Maurice, Capt. Ernest Remand, of
Nantea, bound from Newfoundland for
Isle of Bourbon, with fish. She had,
up to that time, rescued forty passengers
of tho burning steamer, chiefly taken off
tue %bowsprit, though a few were picked
up floating around. At about 8 O'Clock
q of the metallic boats came up, with
about twenty three persons including the
first and third officers afterwards three
or four men were picked up, floating on
a piece of the broken boat. The second
officer was taken up, having been swim.
ming. with nothing to float him, for six
hours. The second and third officers
were severely burned one male pass
enger was burned frightfully, and some
other male passengers slightly. There
were but six women saved, three of whom
were burned, one in q shocking manner.
Capt. Renaud acted with the utmost
kindness. AHe gave clothes as far as he
could furnish them to the suffering pass
engers, and acted as nurse, doctor and
surgeon to the burned people, dressing
the wounds of the females with a de-
LEGACY and tenderness that evinccd a be-
nevolent and amiable disposition.
l did not see an officer of the chip
during the fire, and am certain there was
not one of them or the crew OF the poop,
except a man at the wheel for a short
time. 1 understood that when the Cap.
tain heard of the fire, be rushed on deck
without a cap, aud when he saw the
flames, exclaimed "We are all lostl"-
He tried to get out a boat, which, when
let down, was swamped, and he, whether
accidentally or not, l do not know, fell
into the sea and was soon left far be
hind. The fourth officer was In this
boat. He cut her loose from the davits;
she was carried under the screw aud
smashed, and several in her drowned;
three or four men escaped on a fragment
and were picked UP by the Maurice, as
before stated. About the same time
one metallic life boat was let down from
the port bow and swamped, but got
cleared away with about thirty-three
persons in her, including the first and
third officers aud several women. The
men in this boat capsized her W or
three times, in trying to clear her of wa
ter. Ten persons were thus drowned,
including some women. They after
wards bailed her ont with life preservers
cut in two, and pulled to the Maurice,
picked up two or three passen-
gers before reaching the bark. Alto
there sixty. seven souls taken in
TO the Maurice during the night.
A Norwegin bark came up with the
steamer the next morning, and a boat
was observed going around the burning
ship. They may have picked up a few
persons, but only a very few. The Maui
rice had no communication with the
Norwegian. At about seven o'clock the
Maurice sailed for Fayal to deposit the
rescued passengers. At about O'Clock
the same afternoon she fell in with the
bark Lotus, Captain Trefy, of Var
mouth, Nova Scotia from Liverpool for
Halifax. As I was anxious to get on
British territory, Captain Trefy kindly
gave me passage. He was also anxious
to take all the American citizens, but
there was such a rush of foreigners into
the boats that only n load of eleven
could get off, and wen several of these
were foreigners.
The fire is known to have arisen from
very cuzpa6le negligence of some of the
crew. The Captain and Surgeon con-
sidered it e~xpedient to fumigate the
storage with burning tar. The opera
tion was TO be performed by the boat
swain under the superiutendence of the
fourth officer. The boatswain heated
the end of a chain to dip in tar to pro-
duce smoke. The end became too hot
to hold, 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 %extinguish
it, but without effect There was moth
ing at hand to meet such an emergency.
The rescued passengers saved nothing
but the clothes on their backs, and ever
the greater part Of these were torn off
and otherwise lost.
Six hundred souls were supposed to
be on board, including many women and
children.
Mr.. Brews is the only British subject
saved. He is in the British civil SER
vice, and on his way to British Column
bia. He will proceed to Boston in the
steamer Eastern State, on Tuesday en-
route for New York.
Mr.. .GLAUBENsKLEE's. STATEMENT
MI = -. 49, 80 -. r