The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-10-27
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The Lnss Of the Cambria

/ GREENOCK, October 22.-Captain
Chennowith, of the steamer ROss, re-
ports having passed through much
wrecked matter OFF the northern coast
of Ireland. Among the debris were
portions of the cargo of the Cambria
and fragments of her small boats.
LONDONDERRY, October pa care.
/ ful examination of the coasts and
waters for miles for miles around the
scene of Cambria disaster, by river
steamers, fails to discover any traces
of the missing boats from the Cam
bria.
LONDON, October 22.-Late on We'd
nesday evening word reached Lon
derry that the Cambria, of the An
chOr Line, had been wrecked off the
coast of Donegal. The information
was brought to that city by the only
survivor, John Mcfarland, steer
age passenger. The intelligence ut
first was disbeIieved, but has since
been confirmed. The telegraph lines
have been so disaTranged by the re-
cent storms that the following sum-
mary of McGaTtland's narrative. has
just gotten through from Londonder-
Ty:
''The voyage from New York was
generally fortunate, Notwithstanding
that unpleasant weather prevailed
most of the time until the night of
Wednesday October 10, between 10
and II o'clock. The Cambria was
then under sail and steaming rapidly.
Suddenly, when all was apparently
going well, she struck on Mistraline
Island, small rocky island ten miles
west of Donegal and 80 miles west of
Londonderry. The vessel instantly
began to fill through large holes stove
in the bottom, and the fires soon were
extinguished. 1t became evident that
the steamer was hOpelessly injured,
and efforts were therefore directed to
save the lives of the passengers, who
were massed upon deck. Four boats
crowded with passengers were launch
ed and put offfrOm thesinkingsteam-
er. Mcfarland entered one of these
and saw no more of the ship or the
other boats. He thinks there is no
doubt all the boats were swamped,
and that he is the only survivor. Al
most instantly upon getting into the
boat it capsized and he lost conscious
ness. Upon reViving he found him
self in the sea, but grasping the gum
vale of the boat, which had Tighted,
he found therein the dead body of a
lady dressed in black silk. Mr.. Nc
Garland was tossed about many
hours. when he was picked up by the
Enterprise, Capt. Gillespie, who crUis-
ed about the scene of the disaster for a
long time in hopes of saving life and
property. Mcfarland says at al
most the very time of the disaster the
passengers and crew were congratula-
ting themselves on the tempestuous
voyage being nearly finished, and re-
ioicing in the fact that in one short
hour more, they would land at Mo-
vile. There were certainly one hun
dred and eighty souls on board, and
perhaps more"
LONDONDERRY, October 21.-Mid-
night-Vessels Just returning from
the scene of the Cambria disaster, in
the North Channel, report that they
discovered lot of broken spars and
few barrels of flour, which formed
part of her cargo. Nothing has yet
been heard of the three small boats
which put out from the Cambria
when she struck. Hope for their
safely has not yet been entirely aban-
doned.
Mcfarland reports that wind little
short of a hurricane prevailed at the
time, which it would be marvellous
for such q small craft to weather.