New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-31
THE STORM.

Brig Ashore on Rye Beech-S'cauIcr
Wrecked ia Long IsIHad sOuHd-Scv-
Cnty Lives Lost.
BosToy, August 30-Tbe brig Boston, of
Calais, is ashore on Rye beach. Her crew
are considered safe.
New YORK, August ga furious rain
last night flooded many l0wland7.
The steamer Meti=, the Providence steamer,
is reported wrecked off StOningtOu, last
night. Her passengers were picked up off
Watch Hill this morning. Several lives re
ported lost, Over 100 passengers were on
board
Second Dispatch
NEW YORK, August 30.-The steamer
Metis, lately altered from a frigate to a
passenger boat was valued at $4,000.
Her freight was mostly fT il, valued at
$4,000 The passengers mostly obtained
tickets aboard, consequently no list of them
is obtainable. The Metis sunk from col
lisiOn with a sailing vessel. Several lives
are believed to have been lost.
The revenue cutter Moccasin was at the
scene OF disaster. A dreadful Storm pre-
vailed at the time
One account says there we're $50 passen-
gers aboard, Of whom only seveuty-tiye
were saved.
Another account says. About four
o'clock tLis morning the propeller vas
struck by schooner. knocking hole in
her copper bottom; she Immediately began
10 I'LL, The passengers were aroused and
warned to secure life preserveTs In
shore time the lower part of the boat filed
with water, putting ont the fire and causing
the engine To stop. Soon after the steamer
went down about three miles from shore.
i large number OF the passengers
and crew climbed on the upper deck,
which parted from the hull and Hoated.
The waves rolled high, and the rain con
linued, but the upper works tOatCd, and
struck the shore just below the Ocean
House at about quarter to eight O'Clock
this morning. The Metis had on board lOl
passengers and forty-fve deck hands, wait
ers, etc. At this hour (nOOn) it is thought
that about Une-half Of the passengers are
saved.
Lqter-One of the Mets' lifeboats ar
rived at Watch Hill With all the deck hands
and several passengers A lady with three
children, names unknown, were lost. The
captain and the agent Of the line, who re-
fused to take lItebOAts, washed ashore on
fragments Of the pilOthOuse. One llteboat
still missing. a passenger estimates the
lost at fifty.
1t seems to be certain that nearly seventy
lives were lost by the Mctis disaster, The
night was stormy, and many who had
foatsG uear shore were lost in the surf
No Southern names appear among the
lest or saved. l. seems TO be almost GER
tain,r that seventy lives have been lost by
this awful wrecE. Many went down with
the lower paIt vi the steamer whose names
can never Ie known. One man, who
was married ~ Sharon Springs, New
York night before last, and vas on
Lis way 10 Providence on a wedding
trip, sends word to the clergyman OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church IN that city
10 make arrangements tor the funeral servl-
ces of his wife in his church next Sunday.
Her body was sent forward by the train
this afternoon.
STONNGToE, Conn, August 3O.-Ihe fol
lowing Is the statement OF Captain Charles
l.. Burton, OF the steamer Metis:
We left New York at 5:l5 P. N. on the
twenry-ninth of August. The weather was
overcast and rainy, with a fresh breeze
from the southeast. At $40 A. NJ, when
between the two lighthouses Of MOntauk
Point and Watch Hill, about five miles OF
Rhode Island shore, the propeller was run
into By an unknown schooner striking us
forty feet abaft the stern, or nearly abreast
the pilOthOuse.
The propeller Was Immediately stopped
and turned round and We endeavOred to
tend the vessel, bar tailed. l sent mates
and pilots below 80 ascertain if the pro
Peller was making any water. They re-
ported to me she Eas not, and we cUnsid-
cred the damage vary slight We then