The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-19
FIRST EDITION
The Latest Ocean Horror.
The Crest of the Wave.
The AstOr House Mock Marriage.
Charges Against Gen. Howard.
ETC., Etc. Etc. ETC., Etc.
The AstOr House Mock Marriage
Charges Against Gen. Howard
SHIPWRECK.

The Lost Ship Crest of the wave-The Terri
BILE Fate of All on BOnrd-Three Bodies
Found and their Burial.
Only brief dispatches concerning the wreck
of the ship Crest of the Wave on O reef
near Cobb's Island and the announcement of
the loss of all on board, have been given up to
this time. The ship sailed from Liverpool on
the Sth of March last, bound to Baltimore with
q cargo of 600 tons of salt and 300 tons of gene
raj merchandise, although it has been reported
she was laden principally with railroad
iron. She was built in Warren, Me-, in
1854 of $40 tons burthen, commanded by
Captain Jones and owned by his bro
ther Alexander Jones, of East Baltimore. The
story of the furious gale that tore the vasses
sails from their fastenings, the heavy seas that
washed her decks, the relentless waves that
dashed her staunch hull on the rocks, the criti-
cal moment when the crew and officers took to
the boats to save their lives, and were dashed,
gasping, strarglng, into the watery gulf, will
never be told. Their suferings of body and
anxiety of mind, could they be known, would
undoubtedly fill another page of terror in the
huge volume of the terrible ordeals, the
heroism and deaths of noble men and women on
the deep sea, that q thousand times has sent
the shafts of anguish into the souls of the civil
lied world.
One consolation remains poor though 1t be
that portion of the bodies of the crew have
been washed ashore and received Christian
burial at the hands of humane men. Besides
the three bodies found-which show that the
experiences they passed through before death
were terrible-there have been washed ashore
on Cobb's Island quantities of women's and
childTens clothing, leading those who picked
them up to believe that, with the hardy mariners
who suffered the fearful death of drowning, de-
licate women and tender babies were among
them as passengers and met the same fate.
The additional particulars relating to the
wreck and the finding and burial of four bodies
were received yesterday by letter by Captain L.
j. Merritt, of the Coast Wrecking Company
His correspondent, Mr.. John Caulk, agent of
the Board of Underwriters of New York, and
Deputy Collector at Chincoteague Inlet, Virgil
MIA, discovered the vessel on the 18th inst, while
in the discharge of his duty. Those who had
friends on board the unfortunate ship will be
glad in the hour of their grief to learn that any
further details than the letter contains desired
without moments delay.
Mr.. Caulk's letter is as follows:-
ON BOARD CUTTER ADMIT, OFF NORTH END Hog
ISLAND, ATLANTIC COAST, April 49, 1s7O.-Captan l..
j. Merritt, Coast Wrecking Company, New York
Dear Sir:-On cruise this day to visit vessel
iS n near rese eSos 81 tSe o n rn
Liverpool, with railroad iron. china-ware, etc. sunk
and all hands drowned: The ship is on her beam
end, heading SOUTH with port side out at low water
and spars and yards ysiule. she lies on reef east
of north end OF Hog Island one and half miles
from the beach, in the south pass of Little Macha-
pungo inlet, two and half fathoms OF water at low
tide, with keel of shore and deck in towards the
beach.
/ went ashore on the island at once Just below
the wreck, and found four dead bodies had been
picked up by the Messrs. Cobb brothers and Mr..
Doughty, anu humanely buried by them One Of the
dead was a large, stout man, whose weight was
tho ught to be two hundred and twenty-five pounds,
and thirty years OF age. From circumstances 1t was
supposed that he was the master OF the snip, Cap
tain jones' The gentlemen above referred to, and
Others on Cobb's Island deserve much credit for
the they have taken to bury the bodes so that
they can be removed at leisure when required by
their friends. They will do all in their power to
assist in their removal If requested.
Two boats came in at the inlet at Hog Island
ships yawl and captains gg-whlch were supposed
to have come from the i-fateo vessel. To all ap-
pearances the crew had manned the boats to reach
the shore, when they filed in the terrible and al
were lost. This will account for the bodies being
found, as was the case, eight or ten miles south o
the wrecked ship.
Ally information in the future relative to the YES
Eel or to the dead will be freely given to its owners
and the friends of the or passengers.
The apparel OF ladies and children was picked VI
upon Hog Island, and the suppositon is that there
were both ladies and children on board. No othe
bodies than those mentioned have been picked VI
Cobb's island. Respectfully, JOHN CAULK,
Agent Of Underwriters, and Deputy Collector, Chin
c0t( ague Island, Va.