The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-04-11

| Halifax. At l p. m, on the 31st
| ult., Sambro Island was distant
ITO miles, the ships speed varying
from eight to twelve knots per
hour, wind south, with rain, which
yeered TO westward at s p. M,
with clear weather at midnight,
and judged the ship to have made
122 miles south of Sambro, and 1
then left the deck and went into
the chart room, leaving orders
about the lookout, and telling
them to tell me if they saw any
thing, and to call me at a. m,
intending then to put the ships
head to southwark and await day
light. Ny first intimation of the
catastrophe was the striking of the
ship ON Norris island, and remain
ing there fast. / Immediately
swept away all the port boats, and
the officers went to their stations
and commenced clearing away the
weather boats. Rockets were fred
by the second officer. Before the
boats could be cleared, only ten
minutes having elapsed, the ship
keeled heavily to port, rendering
the star-board boats useless. See
ing that no help could be got
from the boats, I got the passen-
gers into the rigging and outside
the rails, telling them to go for
ward where the ship was highest
and less exposed to the water; the
third officer, Mr.. Brady, the quar-
termaster and others by this time
having established communication
with the outlying rock, about
forty yards distant, by means of a !
line, got from the other lines to
the rock by which about 200 peo-
pie passed; between the rock and |
the shore was a passage about one
hundred yards wide; a rope was
soon passed across this by which
means about so were enabled to
land, though many were drowned
in the attempt; at five in the NOR
ming the first boat appeared from
the island, but she was too small
to be of any assistance; through
the exertions of Mr.. Brady, the
Sd officer, the islanders were aPous-
ed, and by 6 q. IN. three large boats
came to our assistance; by their
efforts all that remained on the
side of the ship and on the rocks
were landed in safety and cared
for by a poor fisherman named
CLANCY, and his daughter. Dur
ing the day survivors to the num-
Der of 425 were drifted off to var
ious houses and scattered about,
the resident magistrate, Ed. Reg
an, rendering valuable assistance;
the third officer having used up
the mizZen rigging, the sea cut of
his retreat; he stood for six hours
by q woman who had been placed
in the rigging; the sea was too
high to attempt his rescue. At
3 p. IN. q clergyman, a Mr.. Ancient,
succeeded in getting him q line
and getting him off; many of the
saloon and steerage,
died in the rigging from cold;
among the number was the purser
of the ship; before the boats
were full I placed two persons in
the life boat, but found the boat
useless and carried them to the
main rigging where 1 left them
and went aft to encourage others
to go forward on the side of the
ship; at this juncture the boilers
exploded and the boat rolled over
to leeward, the ship by this time
being on her beams ends; finding
myself useless there, / went to
take the ladies forward, but found
them gone, nor did 1 see them
many passengers at
this time could not he stimulated
to any effort to save themselves,
but lay in the rigging and died
from fright and exposure. l re-
manned on the ship, encouraging,
helping, and directing. About
fifteen were landed, when, finding !
that my arms and legs were be-
coming useless, left the ship, two
other boats being close to her, and
embarked. On reaching the shore,
1 dispatched Brady, the third Of
ficer, off to Halifax, across the
country, to telegraph the news of
the disaster, and to obtain assis- |
lance. One officer and four men |
are left to care for the dead as they |
come ashore. The second officer |
was lost.