, 1870-04-05

Adrift-Thc british Mail SteamAhlp
Venezuela Deserted By All Her Pas
scnKerx-The1E 4 rrivnl at this HorL
fcfusnI Of thc Captain nnd Crew TO
leave the Shkp--Forty.tssoS Sot.ls In
yo1Sct In nm Uncertain Faae.
Fspus The Sxr York H~a.d Na,chs1.
The terrible ocean calamities Of tho begin
ring Of lsio have received smother lnd melAn-
choly addition to their number. Tha British
mail steamship Venezuela ssi1ed from Liver
pool On the 5th OF March, with thirteen cabin
passengers; She carried = crew Of forty-tWo
ofRcer8 and men, and was au iron stenmer, go
feet long, with other dimensions to correspond,
brig~ngged, md Of l,682 toms register- She
put to Sea under favorAhfe conditions, steam
ing out with genoral cargo and her passen-
gems, bound feE Barbados. Lag1ay1a. Porto
barbados en- the 21st il1at ,Het cotIrse WAS
about southwest by west, and this direction
she puTEued, eneountating hea1y NeAthar Ard
al tie dangerous and 1isAgreeAhle incidents of
the month Of March at sea.
Ten days ont, and 1000 miles from. Liver
pool, right In mid-oceau, At 81 o'clock in tho
morning, tha passengers. While 1t breakfast In
the saloon, were startled by sudden and trn-
Inendous crseh. uhich shook the vessel like An
earthquake, and mAae eyertona Iembae with
fear. Instantly all hands uers on deck, and
hurried examination shnwed that the rudder
and otter stern post OF the TenazuelA had
been carried AHay-the rudder wrelched from
its pirties Ard tho stern post torn violently
away. As the steamship was built in comp,lt-
whole vessel did not ill but through tho
large hola in the stern, savon By ten feet, and
mostly below tho water line. the sea poured in,
rushing in volumes, and in Eve minutes the
entire compartments occupied "a = storeroom
for the cargo and ships provisions WAS full Of
twenty feet, md the shjp in tho hriaf tine Of
Eve minutes hid to sustain the additional
weight imposed by the admission Of tLirty-fise
toms OF surging and sp1aahing water. EsininE
even more foree than would be- produced by
this weight by the ctowdins OF The internal
the steamer, sending At each throw this DE-
strpyer of thl,ty-ase tons asainxt the interior
bulkhead, and threatening ali With instant
te1tb.
The scene on beard tho vencenela ras nor
oun where the sszongest and hs.tcst wcre ra-
quired to look death IN the taoe and stand ba-
side theis own w4tefy graves. Tho passengers
were struck With terror. EmbAfGn8 hut =
few days be5oso for the sunny cline q the
South. some for business, others for pleasure,
duty, tbey we're zppalled md flled With dig
may at this suddeu calamity. But there Tas
little time for thoughts Of melancholy char
1ete1- Nw2s tho duty 81 everyone % woak
1t the pump, to safe the steamer. and to do
the bidding Of Captain Cnucl1, Who, in al The
So, ~ he-,;s.,o 80 e,a1-as. @s0'' a>'91 ANs
Pr Ths .1,,,,'s sto-as ;n ~ anosaa s+o,.roo,n
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roon, IN s;t-as.s ~ ~ .ia~ s.ia, n'1 -
i,tte t; ts;@ ny ueid dsrS tae ~ ~ eae 1
t@sn7a .;teee n.-+ - * .h;T, nr.ctiE ~,
Tsrd ~ H. .tnr-rotrn =. ~ I,s the .nssna.ron,n-
- .to,ercarn e = trsn Ie H. i51 Hjtt,
1;5tt II ia I'M f,re.St}s =, ~ sas,e - -.
| tani3s,s to tba sh;nss aoor haias- ToV -
rest fesr Vas th.f the Ts.r1 Ton1d tesr
BE buIIteed seoarstiue. the enriue fro.n ~
ato1eloqn, break into the una;n bodv cE tIa
| ship, and sink her Instantly. OF it wss fcarel
that the water mould force up the deck n thu
s.toes,, snsh through, and aood ttis casneAEt11
uent, II which case Ill bands would bare xpue
to the bottom.
They 1t once began work, put m shores be.
trean shs gns5 deek oTe5hesa and Ia ssloor
deef 10 Iecp the pl4niug down aud rre;st ~
imtucnse pressure Of thi1ty-f5a totus o1 wsser,
Ehich. II limited. would founiE7 theaa On ht
snot 9he vAser bad 1lrsaay ruahnd INTO tai
saloon from other passages, aud ti,ey now be
Uu TO lad to keep aaoxs, ana al haads toilee
bIe tsasers. -.
1 In the meantime tte boats we1e pus in zead
mess to c1ear AWAY rs the lass resort The.
worked hcurs, md the *ases vas making eis