New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-10-24


fornia. She was on her passage from Mazaf-
Ian TO San Francisco, when she sprang ieak
in the midst of heavy gale. Passengers ana
crew worked desperately at the pumps ana
in throwing out cargo for twelve hours. Then
the fires were extinguisbed by the rising water
and they took TO the boats on the night OF
tho Doth One was killed in leaving the ship.
Seven. in their terror, cllmg desperately to the
sinking vessel and persisted with her. "A
mother and her two children refused to come
away. when Mexican boy jumped overheard
with the children and swan with them to the
boats: the mother was. never seen again
, father saw his daughter carried OIL,
and had not the courage to follow
Al, through the night the boats, six in num-
her kent near the ship; on the morning OF
the 3Oth they rowed aorrowfilly away ana the
seven whom they left behind were seen no
more. Each of the passengers ana crew III
the boats had sardlno and niue Jciy-ho
more. Two of the boats landed that evening
ot Cane St. Lucas, the southernmost point OF
the peninsula of Lower California Another
reached the same spot the next day. The re-
naming three were carried from 10 to 43 miles
m the coast, whence the passengers made their
way. after great suffering, along the burning
sand beach to the Cape.
The story of the loss Of the whalcr Edwards
il in some respects the most horrible OF the
whole catalogue of disasters, for this was
destruction wrought not by the furious ele-
menta but by the crimes of man. Five OF the
sailors are accused of conspiracy TO murder
the officers and sink the ship. First 1t ia said
that they bored holes in the hull but for some
reason unexplained, they stopped them up
again and set the ship fire. This was on
The Goth of July, when they were in mud
ocean. 800 miles from Bermuda. the nearest
land The flames were discovered about
10 o'clock at night, and the crew
foucht them for forty -eight hours.
Then they took to the boats, and the next day
were picked up by the brig Mary Rice, from
Baltimore for Rio JancirO. One OF the alleged
conspirators was drowned; the others have
been brought home in irons. What could have
been their motive in this horrible crime, how
they expected to make their escape except
under the same conditions as the rest OF the
crew, we are left to conjecture. Fiction AFFORDS
a striking parallel to this extraordinary case,
which will at once occur to every reader OF
Foul Play but the history of fact. we be-
lieve, exhibits nothing like it. The develop
ments of the trial will be awaited with the
deepest interest.
OF the wreck of the Hecuba, beyond the bare
fact of her loss, we have no information The
Mariposa, now IL days overdue from New-Or-
leans, has left no record of her fate that has yet
come to hand, except plank picked up at
sea with the words Misunderstanding
painted on it. She had crew of &c. but, for
tumatcly, no passengers. We have recently
printed details of several disasters on the
Lakes, and almost every arrival from sea brings
us intelligence of fresh losses. We fear that the
story is vet by no means finished The storms
of the last week or two have strewn the coasts
of the Southern States with wrecks, and the
captain of tho Mississippi, which arrived from
Rio on Friday, passed the fragments OF no
fewer than eleven vessels driven ashore on
the Florida coast alone. The perils OF them
that 90 down to the sea in ships have never
been so terribly brought home to us before.