The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-26
The ShlpVvrecked Omcers OF the Steamer
SacrNmentO-HOW They Escaped.

The Providence Journal of Saturday has the
following interesting account:-
I'VE are glad to announce the arrival in Pro-
vidence, yesterday, of Lieutenant Henry A.
Bartlett, acknowledgements Walter Abbot,
and Midshpman Rufus Waterman, Jr., OF the
United States steam sloop Sacramento, which
ship, our readers will remember, was totally
lost on the Coromandel Coast, Bay of Bengal,
India, in June last. The particulars which we
subsequently gave are briefly these:-The ship
was on her way from Madras to Calcutta, and
when within some twenty-five miles of Coconada,
where she was bound for coal, struck on q new
and unknown sandbar, which had made out
from one of the numerous mouths of the Coda
very river. Most OF the officers and crew on
boats and RATS succeeded with great difficulty
in reaching the shore through terrific breakers.
One of the RATS, ION which were thirty officers
and men, among the former Lieutenant Bart.
lett, was caught by the receding tide and swept
out to sea. Every man was lashed to the raft.
They labored hard with rough paddles made
from portions of the raft to reach the land;
but, after striving for hours aud making no
headway, but drifting still further to sea, the
officers told the men to save what strength they
had left and cease their efforts-that their Ouly
chance of being saved was to be picked up by
some passing vessel.
i'The raft now Roated about at the mercy of
the wind and waves; during the day the party
were under an intense hot sun. The waves con-
stantly broke over them, for the raft was nearly
two feet under water much of the time.
Zone night it rained in torrents, accompanied
by fierce hailstorm. Thus these devoted men
foated about forty-two hours, without drop of
water to moisten their parched lips, or a morsel
of food. We should add that they had tasted
no food for some fifteen hours before leaving
the wreck, making ffty-seven hours without
anything to eat or drink. At length the raft
was seen, near evening, by the British India
Steam Navigation Company's steamer Arabia,
Commander Ballantine, on her voyage from
Calcutta to Madras, which took the party to
Coconada, where they were put on board an
American vessel. Two days after they joined
their companions.
"Oficers were sent to Madras and Calcutta to
secure conveyance home in case no orders
were received from the Navy Department at
Washington. After waiting two months, and
receiving no orders, Captain Collins chartered
the British ship General Cauldeld, of six hun
dred and forty seven tons, and on the 18th of
August, left Coconada for New York. The pas
SAGE proved an unusually favorable one, the
ship reaching New YorkSin ninety.two sailing
DAYS, the shortest passage, it is said, that has
been made by any ship for many years. We
are glad to hear that our young officers, not
withstanding their hardships, are in excellent
heBlth.
"During the two months the party were in
India they were most Hospitality entertained by
the British residents. Lord Napier, the Cover
nor.General of India, gave orders by telegraph
to furnish the shipwrecked party with every
thing they DESIRED"