The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-10
.oo M 400 PAssENGERS DROWNED

,1grc Aao Sept. s.--The steamer Lady Elgin,
IN The Lake Superior Line, which len here
~, night was run into by the schooner Au-
Sn.ta. of Waukegan, at2x O'Clock this morn
ing, ,or .nrt I'm tv.u+v minutes In 400
feet Of water.
ssyed. including the clerk, steward, and por-
Prom $50 to 400 persons are said to have been
on board, and among them were the Black
y.-ars the q reen Ysgers and Rifles. and sew
"a FIRE companies of Milwaukee, who Were
IN A visit 10 ms city
al Lumsden, of The Nsrr orleans Picayane,
end family. were on BOARD, and are supposed
90 be among the lost.
A. tba time Of the accident, the schooner was
.s,Itog AT the rate of eleven miles an hour.
The steam-tng Moo ueen left this morning
t,r The scene Of the disaster.
The names of those saved AZ far as known,
ara "a follows II. q, Caryl, Clerk; Fred.
RICE Seward; Edward Westlake, Porter;
Robert Gore. Thomas Cummings Michael
conner John T. HOBART of Milwaukee; Tim
0Bryeu; W. A. Daones; Wildman Mills of
ono; Lyman Updike, OF Wauran; II Iugra-
ham mem Der Of the Canadian Parliament
TIE son Of the proprietor Of he London
News WAS on board, and IL supposed 10 be
lost.
The books and papers of the steamer are all
lost.
After the collision. the steamer fioated south
20 Wlnetka, where she sunk.
(sRCosn plsrATCH.l
CHICAGO, Sept. 9.-Tne clerk of the steamer
IadY Eigln makes the following statement:
We left Chicago al 81 minutes past II, toI
I.ske Superier. Among tue passengers were
The Union Guard. Of Milwaukee, orlposing
mart OF some 25U sxcursIonIstS from thai cry
AT haIi-past , O'Clock IN the morning, The
schooner Augusta, OF OsWego, coliidcd with
the Elgin, when about ten miles from shore
She struck the steamer amidship AZ the gang
way, on the larboaTd side. The two vessels
tod inst NIL n 10 AnCuGta
BY in the darkness. At the time of the collis-
ion, music and dancing were going on IN the
cabin, but in an instant after the crash, All
was sun, and in half an hour the steamer
sunk. | passed through the cabins. The Ia
dies were pale, but silent, and no cry or
shrek was heard--no sound but the rush OF
steam or the surge of the heavy sea. Whether
or not they were fully aware of the danger, or
Whelher their appalling situation made them
speechless, l cannot tell boat was lowered
at once, with the design OF going round upon
the larboard side 10 examine the leak
There were two oars belonging 10 the boat,
but Just at that moment some person possess
ed himself Of one Of them and we were pow
erless to manage the boat. We succeeded once
IN reaching The wheel, but quickly drifted
away, ana were thrown on the beach at
Winetka Two boats were left on the Steam
er. one OF them contained thirteen persons,
who were saved. The other bore eight per-
sons. but only four OF them reached shore
alive. the four others being drowned at the
beach.
Before we left the steamer. the engine had
ceased TO work, the fires having been extin-
guished. The force and direc ton of the wind
such that boats and fragments of the
wreck were driven up the Lake and would
reach the shore IN the vicinity OF Winetka.-
As l stood upon the beach. no 7elessly looking
hack upon the route we had drifted, l could
see, in The grey of the morning, objects float
ing upon the water and sometimes l thought
human beings struggling with the waves.