The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-06
THE LATE GALE.
Additional Particulars of the Wrecked
Steamship Republic. ID


The steamship Empire City, Captain
Alexander, arrived at New York on
Friday evening from Hilton Head
Among her passengers We're eight of the
crew and two passengers of the lost
steamship Republic.
Captain B. F. Ryer, late Captain of
the Goth New York Battery, beinga pas
senger on board the Republic, states that
he left the vessel, together with ten 9TH
ers, on the 25th of October, mt 3 o'clock
P. NJ, in the Captains gig, a small four
Dared boat, in company with three 9TH
er larger boats but when darkness set
in they became divided from the other
three boats, and in the morning found
themselves completely alone and at the
mercy of the winds and waves. At
times the boat would be half full of wa
ter. In this fearful situation they re-
manned for four nights and three days,
besides neither having food nor water
for the whole of that time, as in their
hurry to leave the sinking ship, they be.
never for moment took possession Of
their minds. Consequently theirsuff
ings were terrible. They We're about
giving up all hopes of being rescued
from watery grave when a welcome
sail hove in sight. 1t proved to be the
schooner Harper, Captain Coombs, from
Bucksport, Me. They were all taken
on board the schooner in All exhausted
state, and much swollen :; but in conse-
lQuence of the careful attention they re-
6eived from Captain Coombs and the
Inhabitants of Hilton Head they are
doing well.
At daylight, October 81, three steam
ers, comprising the surveying steamer
Bib, gunboat Nypsic and steamboat
Samson, sailed in search of the missing
raft, which when last seen, had eighteen
persons OH it, and the sea breaking over
It some three feet high. AS it is said to
have been very poorly constructed there
are little hopes entertained of the above
vessels being successful on their mission.
Captain Hawthorne, who commanded
one Of the boats of the Republic, states
that he was assured by the sailors that
the persons placed OH the raft we're
nearly all, if not all, firemen and deck
hands. When the Republic went down
there were only two persons on board,
one an elderly sea captain and the other
u German sailor. 81. ala-, n.li se} zfst
Captain Hawthorne picked up seven
DtISOuS IOu Va thC lCCh 0IttI
the steamer went down. 1t is generally
believed that Lieutenant Caziarc, of Bos-
ton, was among those who took refuge
in the second mates boat. The Lieu
tenant was indefatigable in his exertiops
to rescue his fellow passengers.
The Savannah Herald Of the 3lst ult
reports the arrival of the barkentine
Horace Beals with boat from the steam
ship Republic, picked up on the 26th
twenty miles east of hunting Island.
They were In the life-boat fifty hours
without food or water. A demijohn of
water placed on board was broken by
accident. They lost oil their clothing
and valuables and were nearly naked.
The bark William Van Name, Capt.
Loughlin, arrived at New York on
Friday from Galveston. Capt. Lough-
lin reports: October I'D, lat. % OF, Ion.
~ 10, at p. NJ, in n hurricane, blew
away lower main topsail at six P. M.
shipped heavy sea, washing John
COwell, aged q years, a native of RAMS
gate, England, overheard at half-past
six p. NJ. blew away foresail from the
gaskets. October 81, lat 80 so, lon. ~ 20,
passed two new water casks Octooer
%, lat. 33 10, lon. 20 30, at ~ A. M,
passed one bale of bottom at . quarter
past ten A. M. passed the body OF dead
white man at two p M. passed Solo
frame work of cabin skylight or COM
panion way.
renorts that the. steamship Catherine
Whiting, from New York for Calves
TON went ashore on the 18th ult., five
miles south of Carysfort. The Whiting
had picked up two men from the wreck
If a scnooper, the remainder of thecrew
having peen washed overheard. -
The British brig Fairhaven, from Gal
weston with cotton for Liverpool, was
also ashore, having been in tow of the