Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-10-26
The Final Scene at the Wreck
of the Evening Star.

of the Evening Star.
One of the passengers saved from the
steamer Evening Star, and landed at err
nandina, Florida, thus describes the final
scene of the great catastrophe:
The storm that day TUESDAY and
throughout the succeeding night is describ-
ed as one of the severest ever known on
the Atlantic coast. The passengers work
ed faithfully with the crew in all their Ell
forts to save the ship, and even many la
dies engaged themselves to the last mo-
ment in the desperate work, and only
quailed when the fearful announcement
was made by the captain that "the ship
must 90 down /" This was indeed most
awful monochrome which no pen can
Justly describe. Out in mid-ocean, CON-
panion to the bowling tempest, the sea
dashed into fury by the wind, which came
with the force of some solid substance ;
there, on great ship, tossed and bufleted
about like a child's toy or bubble on the
breeze, what could they hope for in this
wild eommotion, with only an open row.
boa, to bear them on Some, with clasped
hands, stood in mute despair, while others
raved frantically and cried out to their
companions, "Oh. save me save me y
The mother was seen to press her child
closer. and the husband the wife to his bo-
som. Others ran from the deck into the
saloons, and there bent down in some cor
ner to await the end. A husband Gan ar
my officer) was seen with his devoted wife
and two small children, all clasped tightly
together. and there remained, even when
the foaming surge of the angry waves
washed through the saloon where they
were kneellng, and there in that last en-
brace, death claimed the faithful victims
So rapid was the closing scene of this
fearful tragedy that two of the ships boats
were never loosed from the davits or moor.
ing on deck, but went down with the ship
Two of them had been cut loose and efforts
made to launch them, but one roll of the
ship plunged both, with all who were near
into the yawning gulf, and the next nc
ment returned them and shattered the frai
bark into atoms against the steamers side
Another moment and there came billow
high-crested and furious. The devoteo
ship but partially lifted her stern. Th
shock of that wave drove through an,
through the saloons, and with a quive
throughout her frame she settled 10 star
forever.
This was six o'clock Wednesdaysmorn,
ing, October 3.
A few seconds time was enough to OBJ
literat every appearance that so gallant a
ship had gone down with its hundreds Of
precious souls. Nothing save some scat
tered fragments of broken timber and here
and there few human heads, served to
mark the Inflated spot. Two of the life
boats rested upon the waters, and toward
them the eyes of drowning scores were
turned. In the midst of the drift stuff
dashed about like demons Of destruction
many found their death, as the severe
gashes aad bal bruises of the survivor:
bear witness. A piece of the hurricane
deck and pilot house composed the only
additional float on which there was the
least prospect Of life, and to this frail sup
port chung a woman 10 the widest energy
Of despair. The dead body of auothe
woman rested lower down on portion o
the deck-another wave and both ar
swept into the deep.