The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-06-15
ANOTHER SERIOUS CALAMITY.
srotal Loss Of the Quebec and Liver.
pool Steamship Canadian, with
Twenty to Thirty Lives,
&C.. &c., -.
81. JOHNS, N. F., June IA, 1851.

81. JOHNS N.F., June IA, 1851.
TIA Montreal ste.ms zip COmpany's screw steamship
Canadian, Captain Graham; w. saned ron quebec on
Saturday morning June l, for Le u0na0ly .no Liver.
pool, struck on fsdof sunken loo eigs nes e0u'u
Belle Iale on the 4th inst, and sunk n 'nH"-HFs
minutes.
One hundred and elghty-one persons were saved III
boats and landed Cape Baad from whence they wefe
brought into this port this morning by French bark
From twenty 70 thirty lives lost, including six
cabin passengers but the ships papers went down in
the sinking ship, yet impossible 10 tell the exact
npmber drowned.
A portion of the mails was saved. Among those
drowned were the mail officer and the second officer Of
tho etesmer.
The Canadian struck the Ice under her foremast and
her three compartments were all broken In at once.
whereupoa she filed rapidly, and soon went down. The
ice field did not attract much attention when first dscov
cred, a. locked small, and scarcely above water.
The steamer was going at slow speed q, the time che
struck.
The Canadian had forty nine cabin and seventy lone
Storage passengers, which, with her crew OF about
eighty, made nearly zoo souls on board.
The following the list Of cabin passengers from Que.
bsc:-
Mr.. Hutton, wife and daughter Rev Mr.. Gleason Mrs
Creser, Mr. McCau and child Mr. McCau Miss Campbell,
Mrs. CAM b,n Mrs Noble and child, Mr.. Brady, Mr..
Mckay, OF Montreal Mr.. Gault, Fred Ashley Mr. Cor
don, Mr. Norris Mr. j. Bran don from Toronto, Dr. Dsz
10y, Miss Bird, Miss Ardah, Miss Holt, Mr.. Ardlh and
lady; from Hamilton, J. Young, Mr. Thompson; fr m
Chicago, g. a. May hew G. W. May hew, A. Heathcote;
from New York, John Herseley from Portland, T. L.
6Jker and wife; from Clarenceville Mrs. McFie, Mr..
MoFie; from New Orleans, s r. Scott, A. r. Harrison
Mr. Gmour, wife and two children and servant, Mr..
Dexn; from Cincinnati, George Rathbone returning
to England, Mas Plow.
LIST OF THE NAMES OF PASSENGERS SAILED.
Mr. Spencer purser Of the Canadian, telegraphs list
of passengers and crew saved from the steamship
Canadian.
PAssEYGRs.
Nessrs Rathbone, Rev. Gleason, J. W. d. Mayhem,
Brandon, Gordon, Gault, and j. Young, Dean Broiy,
HcLAy, Thompson, Harrison, Scott, Ashley, Norris,
Accon wife and child; Gilmour, wife, two children and
servant; McFe aud wife, Coates wife and child; Skies
and wife, Adiah aud wife, Mrs. Noble aud child Mrs.
Campbell, Mrs. Deaseley Misses Plow Adiah, Hall,
McFte, Bird and Creser.
sTEERAGl PASSENGERS.
Captain Bedford, Nessrs Gill, Berriman, McNemary
and child Sam Dickfe, W. and j. Hamilton, W. and Z.
Patterson, Bugehale Lowrey cambridge, Montgomery,
Atkinson, kustad. Falcon, Dunlap, smith, Morgan, Gil
Lis, Tauge, Rene Williams, Bakewel and boy ERoe, j.
and D. Carry, Dewae, Wallace, Fogarte, Lacoue, Mrs.
Eudaeld Misses Galloway, Hamilton, Tweed and Dale,
Jsmison, kcCauf Graham, Cheshire, Akewen. Webster,
bingham, Cheshire, Cghorn, Mr. Patrick and daughter.
All the chips company are saved except the follow
iag-Eessrs Pantop, mail clerk; Davis, second officer
Evart, Francis, Templeton, seamen Prassan, Fogarty
f1smen; Arbuckle and Mcmillan, cooks, and Finney,
eteward.
All the ships papers are lost. She had only sixty
storage passengers three entered twice in the
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