The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-15

occurred until Sunday, between IL mud A, NJ
whom tho ship-boing about thirty nvo miles north
OF Hatteras, on tho edgo Of tho Gulf strcam-
was discovered TO DO on fro III and ncar tho coal
bunkers EYcry effort was Immediately malo to
suPproHs tho haulos, and 1t WAS apparently 30 far
got under that somo hopes wcro entertained for
tho safoty OF tho vcssol, but at 4 A. N. it broke
out Of tho forward hatch, whom oil hopes for tho
safety OF tho ship woro given up, and tho boats,
thrco in number, wero got ready.
Tho parties saved, with three oihers got into
ono boat, and had to bo Immediately cut loose
from the ship to prevent swampng--by which
means thoy became soparatod-and Il was not untiI
eight O'Clock in tho morning when they foil in
with ono OF tho boats containing CAPTAIN COMFY
ISAAC BACON, second mate, tho Savannah pilot
and hrst steward, namod TALBOT. This boat was
fnl OF water, and thoy all got into tho boat with
tho soven irst mentioned. They thon returned TO
the burning ship, but could not lind tho third
boat, when thoy started for land. About five miles
from the steamer thoy made sail, which proved
to DO tho schooner Laura s. Watson, Captain
DoRrTY, OF scdywick tSIo.,) from Now York for
Georgetown (S. c. She hove to in heavy sea
and gavo the boat lino when tho latter got under
tho lea quarter and was capsized. BY this acci-
don't Captain CoNEy the cond assistant engi-
neer, CHARLES A. CLARK; tho Savannah pilot;
TALBOT, tho steward; j. p. HAMILTON, coal
passor, and BARNEY, coal passor, wcro all drowned
Tho remainder, four in number, were rescued.
Tho following known to be drowned: ALBEIT
A. GOLDEN chief engineer; first engineer JOHN L.
WIooIN; MEAD, chief mato; lady passenger and
Child, and malo passenger. As39ho third boat
was thought to DO less ablo than tho others, it s
foared that the remainder Of tho crew are lost.
There wore twenty-sfG on board all told
We copy from tho Georgetown Is. c. Times, of
tho 18th inst, tho following report OF Capt. g. b.
DoRIry, Of tho schooner Laurt 8. Watson, in
reference to the loss Of tho steamship Cliy Of
Bath:
We have received from Capt. 8. D. Dority, OF the
schooner @ Laura B. Watson, bound for Ducksville,
tho steamer City OF Bath.
%, On Sunday mSTnins, February goth. Capo Hat
ming from the N. w., II A. NJ, mado vessel on
our lea bow on fire; kept off and ran down TO hor.
e Sued Ha 80 oR Rf bss RSaS So
board; ran to lie s. W about siS four no miss; HaS
mon. Wo ran along until dead TO ieawnrd Of
them; hauled the jib down and hove tho schoon.
or to under balance rcofed maineail and foro.
sail. Iho boat rowed' across our bow, and before
they got her around WAS astern Of IIs. We hove
thon limo which thcy got; the man that had tho
seeTii59g i5 oar which was Capt Goncy Of tho steam
".
them to get out thoir oars again and pull the boat
TO leaward OF US again, as to got clear of our
shseredy hs1 hsF FGa o9
which brought her under our lea-quartor again
and ana @esRsi,ze@d R,, @ her instantly {aho was metallic life
lot our line go, and tho rst sea carried them ont
OF our roach. There was such bad sea- our small
boat could not hayo lived two minutes. SO wo made
them tho frat time. Wo made Ave tacks; twice
wo stood by and could not find them, there was
such heavy sea and ono end Of tho boat was sunk.
All but four nom were washed away and drowned
We saved four by running by them and heayipR
them lines; their names arc Frank Toby, Charles
Davis, Jeromiah OBrien and Patrick Donovan. ali
of Boston. There were &c persons on board the
steamer md % lost. There wc1o three passions ecrs
one nan, woman and child. Tne fire started in
ing fire from q lamp that was hanging against it;
took lire about 1 o'clock Sunday morning: the
steamer wns hove to at the time. Tho boats loft
boats-two ifo aud one common bont. Tho cap
tains boat swamped about daylight; all lost but
OF P and
The passengers were In the captains boat; the
captain loft tho woman and child in his boat dead
her. We could not find anything Of them, though
We continued our search from II O'Clock until
might i6Ihs 80, :. ;, ), -, o....- ! a.
think the Captain was under the influence of iiauor
when thoy picked thom or him up, and think so
too, By the way he managed the boat whom he
power to save them. My vessel was In ballast and
very light, SO we could not handle her yory we'll
l give you the particulars as I got them from tho
four survivors.
I will give You the names Of those learned sup
posed to be lost: = Conoy, Captain; = Meade
tirst mate; Isaac Bacon second lnato; A. Caioton,
chief engineer; E: A.. ClGrk, second engineer;
Salvage, pilot; = Talbot, steward; Moses Taylor
second steward, colored; = Bangor, quartermas,
ter; 9. Potter, second cook; ]. Bryan, fireman;
Joseph Hamilton, coal passor; J. L. Wggins. first
assistant engineer. Yours truly,
L. D. DoRITY, Captain.
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