Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-08-10
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SAN FRANCISCO DISPATCH.
ESPECIAL DESPATCH To THE GOLD NIL DAILY NEWS
Arrival Of the steamer which wa
sent in Senrch of tho Brother iona
thRn-Particulnrs Of tho WreckinR

AETlVAA OA the SboA"oF WHICH VIM
sent in Senrch OF the Brother iona.
thRn-Particulars Of the WreckinG.
SAN FRANcIsco, Aug. 100 A. NJ.
The steamer Del Norte arrived yester-
day afternoon with Colonel Wright and
Others, who went on an unsuccessful
search for the remains Of victims Of the
Brother Jonathan disaster.
The statements of survivors show that
this steamer WINS making no Roadway
against the gale at moor on Sunday, when
Captain DeWolf ordered her put back for
Crescent City. They had returned seven
or eight miles, to a point due west Of Point
St. George, when, at ten minutes to 2 P.
NJ, without warning of danger, the steamer
struck with full force upon q sharp ledge,
which at the lowest ebb projects about a
yard above the surface, and the bottom OF
the steamer went to pieces, with a crash,
and in three minutes the large fragments
Of the bottom and a part Of the rudder
were aAoat along side. There were no
frantic acts among the passengers, though
they, as we'll as the officers, must have
had q full sense of their awful peril. Capt.
DeWolf ordered one Of the largest boats
lowered and filed with passengers, under
the first mate. None of the rescued saw
her till she was floating bottom upward.
The Captain now ordered the second mate
to lower his boat, already nearly filled
with female cabin passengers, among
whom was Mrs. General Wright, but be-
fore the seamen had time to man her the
steamer careened and upset her, throwing
all on board into the water. The mate
drew up such of the ladies as he could
reach from the steamers chains, where he
held on. 1t was now fifteen minutes
since the collision, and the steamer was
fast breaking to pieces. The third mate,
who was asleep when the crash came, now
lowered his small boat, and hurried On
board five women and three children who
were nearest at hand. Ten of the crew
leaped after him, including two w~hcelmen,
steerage steward and two Eremen. The
load was large for the boat, and she
dipped inccssantly-but the strong arm
and GOODNESS of the mate brought her
twelve miles-to Crescent City harbor.
Two guns were fred after the boat left
the steamer, and she disappeared under
the pillows about fifteen minutes later.
Capt. DeWolf, Gen. Wright, Lord, Wells,
Fargo & Co.'s messenger, and Nesbit were
on deck when last seen. There were two
boats on the deck when the Sd mate left /;
but owing to the terrible violence of the
sea, it is not probable that either Of them
could have been launched. Most of the
lady passengers were sick in their state
rooms when the boat struck, and never
came on deck. The Quartermastcr of the
steamer says that she thumpcd twice, at
intervals of five minutes, holding fast on
the rock meantime, and that when she
swung off her foremost went down through
her bottom until the forc-yard brought up
across her deck. The steamer probably
sunk in 100 feet of water, and thus far
nothing has been recovered except n Of
the wooden boats with both ends stove, a
mattrass which was doubled up AZ If it
had been graspcd by som one for a long
time, some buckets. and q few other
triAing articles. One body, naked, very
much disfigurcd, and dashed to a piece of
the wreck, drifted ashore at Gold Bluff /;
had dark hair, frosty chin whiskers,
weight $50 or lGO pounds, and about 80
years of age. The body was not recog-
nized.
The Del Norte met n piece Of the Brother
Jonathan's house floating at sea. There
was nothing on it. Parties are patroling
the beach from Eureka to Trinidad, where
bodies are expected to come ashore.
Three Of the saved were women, who
were going to Victoria with Mrs. John c.
keenan,. They returned on the Del
Norte.
The whale ship Europa, with a full
cargo, arrived from the Arctic Ocean
land also the steamer Saginaw last
evening. She saw nothing of the Shenan-
doah. She spoke the ships Mount Wash
ington and J. P. West and the barks J.
D. Thompson, VIM. Clifford and Vine
yard, all steering south, having been
warned of the presence Of the pirate.