Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-31

She was cOmman0eu Dy OaPtaln OnaIles
L. Burton.
FOURTH DISPATCH. FL
WATCH HILL, r. I, VIA SToNING-
TON. CONN., August 30.-The propeller
Nets. Captain Burton, was wrecked
within six miles of this shore this
morning. = dreadful storm prevailed
in the latter part Of the night. About four
o'clock the propeller was struck by q
schooner, knocking out her bot
tom She Immediately became filed.
The passengers were aroused and
warned to secure life-preservers.
In a short time the lower
part of the boat, engines, etc, went
down, about five miles from the shore.
A large number Of passengers and the
crew climbed on the upper deck, which
parted from the head and 1oated. The
waves rolled high and ran continually,
bat the upper works fiOated and struck
tine shore lust below the Ocean House,
about eight o'clock this morning. The
Metis had on board one hundred and
four Messengers, forty-four deck hands,
walters, etc. Captain Burton and George
B. Hull, agent of the line, are among
the saved. At this hour, eleven o'clock
a. M, it is thought that about half the
passengers are lost. The greatest eX-
eitement prevails here among the guests
of the hotels, and they are doing all
they can 10 aid the sufferers.
FIFTH DISPATCH.
WATCH HILL, August so, 3 pm
The cutter Moccasin left for the scene Of
the disaster at ten O'Clock, as did also
fhe vac,9t Josie, with large crew. One
of the IifebOats of the Metis has just
landed here. with six deck hands and a
ladv of Providence, name unknown,
with three children. The captain and
agent of the line refused to 90 into the
Iifeboats. and were washed ashore on the
remnants of the pilot-hOuse.
The Metis was lately altered from a
freight trader TO passenger boat,
and cost one hundred and seventy-hye
thousand dollars. The cargo was princi-
pally fruit, valued at fifty thousand dol
lar Most Of the passengers obtained
tickets on board, and no list OF names Is
available.
A private dispatch from John Nc
Austin, Of this city, who was on the
steam Metis, says that when the she
struck the schooner, the crash was very
slight, but the steamer sank immedla-
teiv. He was i'm the water ten minutes
when be succeeded in swimming to the
cabin of the boat and was fiOated ashore
with forty or fifty other passengers. He
thinks that about one hundred lives
were lost, but more may have been
saved than as vet reported.
WATCH HILL, r. l., 30.-The purser,
John n. Latham, was picked up by the
United States revenue steamer Mecca
sin. as were also Aaron Anthony, freight
clerk. and steward Mclean, whom all
supposed 70 be lost. The steamer Moe
casfn also saved Charles s. Bradley, a
Lad of PrOvidence: VIM. Purdy, cook, Of
New London; chief engineer King, Of
Providence; first officer Baker, Quar-
termasteTs Appleby and Palmer, OF
sStonington. Eighteen dead bodies
have Just been brought in by steamers.
The papers and books belonging to the
Nets were all lost. The purser says
that there were one hundred and four
whole tickets sold and two half
tickets, and that there were several
small children and infants on board.
He estimates the total number of pas
sengers at one hundred and ten. The
crew, waters, etc, make, in all, one
hundred and fifty-five souls.
The following Is a list Of the saved:
eshnIlss J.. Burton, Captain, of Bristol,
Rhotie Island; George B. Hull, agent Of
New York and Providence Steamship
COMPANY; Richard Davis, Providence;
Edwin Turner, Providence; Edwin E.
Arnold. Of Green, Rhode Island; Mr..
Randolph, wife and child, and Mr.. Hunt,
Providence; w. Z. Sheridan, of Globe
Theater, Boston; Michael w. Clear,
New York; c. Young, Attleborough,
Massachusetts,; Mr.. CaprOn and nephew,
John B. Gately, Estella Abraham, New
York; Emily Gushing, Providence;
Elliott sanford, New York; Miss
O'Rrien. North AttlebOrough, Massachu- /
setts; Mary Ann Riley, Providence; Z. !
q. Elliott, wife and sister, NJ. Holland, !
New York; Wilhelm Hendriek, Wal
than. Massachusetts,: Z. S. Squire, Pat
ferson. New Jersey: W. Anderson, New
York. Mr.. Butler, Providence; /. ID. /
Blarding, Providence, r. l.; Mrs. |
Girard. of Providence, who loses two
children: Mrs. Blackburn and her
daughter Lizzie: Thomas McBarney, |
jersey Civ; William Cook, Montreal; |
JnO. McAustin, Providence; Alfred l.. |
Nutting, wife and child, Little Falls, |
New York; VIM. Phelps, Boston; w. |
n. Reed, Boston; Jacob Higgins, |
Greenville, Connecticut; Arthur 7.
Schmidt, Boston; Michael Buckley, |
Boston; Mather Dickens, Dyerville, |
Rhode Island; Jno. Mullen, Of Brook
Iva: Bartlett +. DOlan, Of Whitinsville. /
lt seems TO be almost a terrible GER
tainty that seventy lives have been lost /
bv this awful wreck. Many went down |
with the lower part Of the steamer
whose names can never be known. One
rlan, who was married at Sharon
Springs, New York, night before last,
aud was on his way 10 Providence on
B wadding trip, sends word 10 the cler-
gyInan OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church in that city 10 make arrange
menus for the funeral services Of his
vic ia his church next Sunday. Her
bo3y \, ~ sent forward by the train this !
artGruoon. A gloom has been cast over
tie entire section by the disaster. All /
+, = hotels at Watch Hill have from /
eirt.t 10 twenty of the rescued In their 1
par.ots and sleeping rooms. There was |
no marine insurance on the vessel.
Gy0NIHGrON, CONN, August 50.-The |
ALLOWING is the statement Of Captain |
Charles r. Burton, Of the steamer Me-
tis. as given to ]. Wtsley Smith, Of the
Albany Argus:
awe left New York at a quarter-past
five O'Clock on the twenty-ninth OF Au-
r-,,St The weather was overcast and |
So With q fresh breeze from the !
so,tbaast- At three o'clock and forty /
minutes in the morning, when between |
the two lighthouses at Monqtauk Point
and Watch Hill, i've miles on the
Rhode island shore, the propeller was
run into by an unknown schooner, striA-
ing her forty feet abafissof the stern, s,,,l OF
nearly abreast OF the pilotnou5e- Inc
propeller was Immediately stopped ana /
turned around, and we epaeaVorea 70 4
fnd the vessel, but We iAsied aed
pilot below TO ascertain II the
proDellar WAS taking any Whter. 1