The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-12-02
LOST AT SEA.
q TERRIBLE MARINE
DISASTER.
Sinking Of the Steamship City
Of Havre With Nearly
All on Board.

LONDON, December lone OF the
most appalling marine disasters chronl.
cled since the loss Of the steama hip
Atlantic is reported this morning
The eteomshiy Vile de Havre, Of the
French Atlantic line, running between
New York to Havre, outward from New
York TO Havre, collided with an un-
known vessel and sunk in few minutes
She carried valuable cargo. OF those
OF board. only eighty.seven were saved;
one hundred Of the passengers and crew
were drowned.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE DISASTER.
New YORK December l.-Dispatches
from London give the following partle-
ulars of the loss OF the steamer Vile
de Havre: The chip Tri Mountain,
from New York, arrived at Cardiff at
an early hour this morning, bringing
intelligence OF dreadful disaster to the
steamship Vile de HaYre, Which lett
New York Nov Is ior IlaYre, under the
command of Captain Eu.,er. At TWO
o'clock on the morning OF L.. - OF
Novem Der, the Vile de havre cOli;d-
ed with the British ship LCckeorn, rom
London to New York, and sunk shorty
after. Two hundred and tweuty-aIN
paggeugers on the steamer lost the:
lives. The Tri Mountain rescued
eighty.seyen Of the passengers and c!eT,
and brought them to Cardiff. The !oi-
lowing is 3
LIST OF PASSENGERS
on the Vile de HaYre:
Captain Hunter, wife, three daughters
and servant, Mrs NJ. A. Simons, Mr7.
Leorez, Mrs. Billinger and daughter,
Nrs. StuCklete., Mrs. Montague, Miss
Montague, Rev. \. "eIs-, Emi! Cont,
II. " Ni15n ~rf vie, /. 3 McCrery,
Rev 4. J.., =. r.-, :. Ronio, w.
A. Swift, wife and child, Mr. Lariaux,
Mr.. Cramer, Mrs E. Curtis and maid,
Mr. Z. Burneti Waite, Mr.. Lamoth,
Mr.. T. Llado, Mrs. Eliza Ferdinand
and son, Mrs. c. A PIatt, II. Murry,
A. Barbausap, N. L. Taylor, J. Bsh-
op, Mr. Mixter, vi C and two daughters.
Mrs II. Beckley ard daughter, Mi7s
Haghtaun, Mrs. II. Edgar and two
daughters, Miss c. Turcos, Mrs. H, G..
Spsfford and INFANT, Miss Nicalt, Henry
Be!knap, Mrs. Goodwin and two child
rem, Mrs A G. Kenhett, r McBrtt, /
Tro;onse, M and Mrs H Sigourney and
two sona, daughter ani nurse, Mr. and
Mrs T Hammond, T Hammond, Miss
A Hammond, C Hammond, Mr and
Mrs Theo. Jonanique, Judge r "
Peckham, OF Albany, and wife, Mr.
and Mrs Colladium,P LogTaaa5C', and
Z Hesse.
SECOND DISPATCH.
A later dispatch from Cardiff brings the
the following additional particulars OF
the loss of the steamship Vile de Hav-
re: She WAS struck amiIships by the
Locherne, and sunk in twelve minutes
after the collision. The Lochsrne im-
nediately lowered three boats, which
rendered all the service possible by
them. Fifty-three Of the crew were
saved, including the Captain, and these
20 to make up the elghtyHseven.
Among the passengers saved are ten
women.
The saved are as follows: Captain
Hunter and five other officers; 54 OF
the crew and q passengers, namely:
Mary Hunter, Annie Hunter, Helene
Mixer, Madeline Mixter, Emile Cook,
Rev. \. Weiss, Mrs. II. J. Spaford,
James Bishop, Charles Crestow, Miss
Breeder, Francisco Dodd Hyppstite
Wait, f. A. Withew, Jr., F. Marcourt,
Fannie Biminger, Alfred Barbarson,
Xavier Pengungnot, Mr.. Lsuriaux, c.
Barrett Waite, Csrmelia Edgar, hy5.
Maria Balkiey, William r. Swift aud
wife, Andrew B. McCreery, Mr.. Cram
er, Henry Belnap aud Legrand. Pro-
baby Bargrand.
Among the passengers in the Vile
Du Havre were the following members
of the late Evangelical Alliance, retIrn.
ing to their homes Kev. Antonio
Csrrason, o. Spsin; P. and Z. Proirer,
OF Geneva, and Rev. Y. Weiss, Emile
Cook, NJ. TorrieTe, OF Paris, Alfred Bar
hanson, OF the Belgin Legation at
Washington, was a!so passenger.
The Vile Du Hsvre was formerly
Napoleon the Third, she was altered
aud enlarged last winter and csme here
for the first time as the Vile Da Havre
on the g,h of April, making the passage
from Brest in nine days and twenty
three hours With the exception OF
the Great Eastern che was the largest
steamer that ever entered this port. Her
dimensions were 430 feet by IS feet
her carving capacity was $500 tons
weight and measurement Her main
sal0on was fitted up with marble wa!n-
sco.iOg OF three varieties upholster-
Ing was IN velvet and wood work carved
in most unique designs. Her engines
vero compound, direct acting, 1920
horse power, made in England.
TNE WEATHER.