The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-27
WHOLE NUMBER 1,801
WRECKED ON THE WIZARD

O~t LIE nlLAhD u
DsrAlLs OF THE WRECK OF THE ANGLIA
sPANIsH TRADING STEAMSHIP cADIzS
4 1.-TWO LIVES LosT-STRI-CE or Tur
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| ROCK. 'OSA THE
Inc steamship Cadiz was wrecked about
tne same time the Schiller was. but the lat
cSianni'y was so overshadowine tia. the
ioiiher was almost forgotten. The follow
inG particulars are from the London News
oi lne Eth inst, just received: One Of the
| SURVIVORS OF the Cadz was landed At South-
Sn p'on yesterday morning from the steamer
Guernsey, having been sent on from Br,st
Dy The British consul, via So. Man
he Is the only one OF ana crexv
saved, and the only other. snrvt
yors Were three Portuguese ,ssn1en.
"hson' the man In question, nake- the fol-
that sixty-two persons were Srownea Hs.
say; Ny name is George Wilson. am a
seHinah DeioDging TO London, and was one
OF the crew OF the steamship Cacjz. she
was an iron vessel Of 9s5 tons burden. be-
longing 10 London and Vigo. We Ieft
London on the 9th of Apr,I and .-riS,s-t st
LISBON on the 18th. We then went to-
Uioraitar, which we reached two da0s aft,.-s-
wafd, and thence to Malaga and Csdiz'. 81
TTvIng nv az the latter port on tie oath of Apr:I.
Tbere Tn reie tss sgsin on the following Thursday.
'o'u' 81 Engiishmen, and thirty-fiye rassen--
gers, twenty of the latter being PortI1cuaso-
ahois, VINO Were coming to nam shin i'm.
L1noon. ~, we sailed from Vigo for London
hne weather after leaving Vigo was yervr
thick and foggy.
STRUCK ON THE WIZARD aocK.
II became very thick on Thursday night.
ids'' ana THIS lasted till the time when.
We struck on the Wizard Rock, OF Brest at
O'Clock on Saturday merning last, the Sth
Inst. Ihe captain was at that time in h;ss
cabin, but l. do not know II: he yas.asleen-.
The second mate, Mr.. Atkins, had the watch
on deck, and was at the whesl. Icould see
nothing for the fog, and I think the captain
oiu not know that we were so far across the
bay OF biscay as we were. We saw nothing
Whatever OF land until theship struck The
wizard Rock Is long way of Bress, and is
one OF great many rocks which form
islands there. Directly the ship got ashore
the captain came up, mozEted the Jr1dge,
and told the second mate that he tAought
the ship had struck heavily forward The
third mattel don't know hss nam e-s-sy, for
waEu, and ne had not been there more than
thirty seconds before be sung out 10 the
captain that the ship was going down 5y the
nead, anu The captain thero-dereCl th sboats
TO be cleared away, but as The shin was sink
with bis directions. The Cadiz had six
large boats, enough to have carrie d every
body on board. One boat vas low cred, and
aoont fourteen hands got into sr, under
tne command OF the second mate, but after
the boat had pushed of from the side the
ship heeled over on the top of her. and
forced her and all VINO wexe in her under.
The boat came up afterwarI keel upward,
with three of the Portugese sail ors, who
hung To her keel, and she dri:tess ashore
With tham / a no efu ~ frsr
and seeing that the ship was making a
suTge to
DOWN BY THE HEAD,
took al my clothes and jumped over
board. got clear of the suction OF tbs ves-
sci. When she went down the water was
very rough. After was overheard could
see some rocks about 300 yards from ms, and
to these managed to swim. Other persons,
s wsm along with me, but they did not
reach the rocks, as he sea was so heavy. At
the lime the vessel struck there was great
on board but the captain appeared
to retain his sef-pc sssessien, and the officers,
so far as could see obeyed the orders given
them. Before 1 lt It the island saw one
body washed ashor 9. 1t was that of an Eng
iish gentleman, passenger, whose name
did not Know. III g had sailed from london
with rs, and had 2 one the round of the voy-
age. We left the body on the island. There
was one gentlen ian passenger on board
accompanying hi N, bat 1 saw nothing of
him. Among the persons lost by the wreck
of She steamship CadiZ, was Mr.. John
Morse, DENTS E, of Detroit, Mich. This
may be the gentl sman TO whom Wilson re-
terSel The secon mate, Atkins, swan with
me from the shiI toward the shore. but be
was drowned be fore reaching the latter, and
man named homas Jones, a fireman on
board, was also drowned when swimming
near me. Amo ng the others of the crew
remember Pip pings, John Gray, Kinds,
Feasher5ridge, Wright, Forman, Maclean,
Carr and jane Pedlsy. don't kno W the
names OF any OF the passengers. The. first
mate was nam ed Duger. or the 66 persons
In the vessel, 81 crew and 30 passengers, L
and the three Portuguese are all who are.
saved.