The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-01-21
L III E DISPATC II.
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TERRIBLE SUFFERING SEA.
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TERRIBLE SUFFERING ATsEA.
1REcK or THE BRITISH BARK FRANKLIN
Loss - i{fRES PERso Vy-UPEa DEifI
SoffIRiNG 043HE WRE6h, dc.
The ioss of the British bark franklin, Captain
tonng, bouad from peusacoia to Queenstown,
Ireland, Gu the night of tho 7th instant, has besn
hoticed. She was steering Tor shelbourne, n. S.
Tue statement of the Captain says:
The sea beginning to rise, double reesd the fore.
topsaii, ard was Just in the act of cutting away
the mainmast, when sue gave g sudden roll over
70 port, at the same time bFoaching TO aud filing
her port side. She thea instantly turned over ON
her beam ends. There was a vSTy heavy sea run.
hing, which made O complete breach over her,
taxing away the house, boats, and everything
about her, including most of the spars and all her
sails, leaving her perfect wreck. At the time,
my wife, Isabel, and son George, aged FIVE years,
who we're 10 their bed were carried of with the
cabin and drowned. All the rest OF us succeeded
10 getting on the broadside. The accident hap.
pened about midnight. About 4 A. NJ. she rightsd,
bat nothing was to be seen. Towards evening the
woither became more moderate; got on the star
board side OF the deck, the port side and deck
beams being all to pieces. We could not find q
particle OF food or water, and the ONLY thing left
was part of the foresal, attached TO the stump Of
the foremast, which We secured in tire beet man-
ner we could, to protect from the frost aud
snow. In this condition we continued on the
wreck until the l0ih, at noon, without food or
water, when, fortunately, the packet ship NAM
haftan, Captain Dixon, from Liverpool for New
YORK, came TO our assistance aud TOOK Us of We
were IN most deporabs state, being exhausted
and frostbtten. One seaman, named Jas. Burns
OF brooklyn, pefished the second night on the
wreck.
The statement of Captain Dixon, Of the bark
Manhattan, says that he spied the Franklin just
afssr the clearing off of q snow storm, and made
for her:
rha Sud A.
which made 1t extremely difficult to fetch" the
stranger; but in hauling the yards a. SHARP IA
possible. nsnaged, with the assistance of all the
crew aud some willing passengers, to get the Man
haitian within short distance When near
enough to discern her distinctly, perceived that
sue was completely disman,ied her decks were
swept, aDd the crew were iashed together 20 the
wreck OF the f1retopmast. that stil remained.
some fifteen feet above the water.
The poor fellows, when they found that every
particle OF food and water was beyond their reach
got on to what remained of the fore topuast and
tore the remnants OF the fore topsai ia shreds.
and covered themselves in some measure with
them 10 seep them warm and from the SNOW
Taey were III this position when | discovered
them; and, but for the weather clearing 30 sud.
denly at the hour it did. the Manhattan would
have shortly passed beyond the possibility of see.
lug them.
l Immediately hove the ship to and ordered the
quarter boat TO be lowered The chief officer
was instantly ready to go to the rescue. as al.
so the third oifcer, carpenter and two seamen.-
After taking good supply of rum to keep them
warm, they started 10 the rescue. The sea WAS
then running very high, which rendered their
task very hazardous, but keeping before the sea
and with the energy Of men aborng TO save otb-
ers they reached the wreck. The uDf1r.uns,e
men were 80 exhausted that they could do no.
thisg for their release. 0uT meu had, therefore
to cut them loose from their position and lower
them, utterly helpless, into the boat for their
deliysrance
/ furnished the officers with two bottles of run
which they poured into the seamen of the Frank.
lin TO keep them alive while they were brought to
the Manhattan. Captain Young and four of the
men were brought 10 the frat boa. load They
were exhausted that they could not sit up bat
had to lay down in the bottom of the boat The
qsarter boat Immediately returned for the others;
but from the heavy sea and the distance from the
wreck the second boat did not return IN abont
o'clock z. Al. We had to haul them on board the
Msnhattan, which was only accomplished with
great difficulty. The running high, and it
was only the dexterity Of the mate that kept the
boat from swampIGg.
We immediately took them into the cabin and
stripped them, rather cut their clothes and boots
of, as their bodies had swollen that this was
necessary. Surgeon j. Campbell was immediately
at work with them. We gathered snow from the
deck aud robbed their bodies till We had some
| sisns of returning animation. We Continued this
for forty eight hours, resting now and again. Ii
was nearly two hours from the time they got OH
board the Manhattan before some of them gave
snow water was discontinued, their bodies were
| rubbed with turpeptine, which was continued as
| often as necessary till they reached this port
When they began to return TO their senses and
feel that they were alive, they were perfectly ra
vencus, and their constant cry was "Food" Rut
the surgeon wisely restrained them, and only
permitted the use OF soup and gruels till they
were sufficiently recovered to take stronger food
They could not possibly have lived through that
day. Ia the evening it became So extraordinarily
cold that the seamen Of the Manhattan could
scarcely, with all their clothing and protection,
kssp ;te deck. Their fagers sad toes were at.
tack ed with fiost bite The Manhattan was placed
III safe ine," TO ship as little possible: but
in spite OF every preeau.ion the that got on
deck or on the rigging wac ice the moment il
touched. The five inch ropes In the morning we're
double their thickness, at night where the sea had
reached them.
When Capt. Young began to get round and think
OF his wife, and al!ude to her loss and that of his
dear little boy, the stoutest heart among us was
melted, and We could not refrain from minglinv
our tears with his, and we thought Of his loss and
thought of home.