The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-11-25
at the Navy Department or elsewhere OF the names
OF those who were rescued

p1'rAish rhoM ENSIGN fotN6s
Ensign Young sent a telegram to Rear Admiral
Trenchard this afternoon, saying that but four
of11cers were saved. These 1t seems were: -
WARRINGTON, Cadet Engineer
DENIG. Assistant Paymaster
SANDERS.
LUCiEN YOUNG, Ensign.
He'd the captain been saved Ensign Young would
undoubtedly have communicated that fact
SECRETARY rHoMPsoN's ORDERS
secretary Thompson has taken measures for the
promptest assistance to be given TO those who
have been saved. He has sent a steamer to the
rescue OF the wreck by way OF the canal from
Norfolk, and the Powhsttan and swatara. both
United States men.ofwar have also left for the
same point on the errand OF relief and in hopes
that some may be picked up. The Secretary has
also telesraphed to the signal observer at Kitty.
hawk to use every possible cxertion TO relieve the
saved, to employ messengers and send them up TO
Norfolk and get people to take every care OF
them. The department expects to get full In.
formation tomorrow OF the wreck by steamers that
have left Fortress Monroe and Norfolk in obedience
to the instructions issued this afternoon
Up to very late hour tonight inquiries continue
to be made at all quarters where it possible any
Information could concentrate to the fate OF the
unfortunate ships company 1t is not considered
In any way unreasonable to suppose that there may
be some who are saved in addition to those known
to have reached the shore at the time Ensign
Young and his boats crew landed on tho beach.
Rigid looks out Will be kept, and the hope is not
shipwrecked that the prompt despatch Of stout
ships may result in the discovery alive OF some who
are now thought to be lost.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VESSEL.
The Huron was built at Chester, Pa, and was
nrst christcned the Alliance. but was afterward
named the Huron. She was third rate screw pro-
pelcr, Hl tons. She carried TOUR guns was
schooner rugged and OF the same class exactly as
the new vessels Alert and Ranger, now on the
Asatic station In the last report or the Secretary
OF the Navy, under the head OF "new vessels added
10 the Navy since 1862" are mentioned ten ships,
and In the list OF vessels the descriptive paragraph
abiding thereto Is Huron, third rate built OF iron,
with full steam power, in commission and Of good
report"
WHERE SHE STRUCK.
Signal station 100, known as KittyhawE, is stu
ated in latitude se deg. 0 min., longitude Is deg.
% min, not many miles north OF Oregon Inlet,
and just above Nag's Head, being located on the
bank. at the mouth Of AlbemarIe Sound. Roanoke
Island lies Just south Of the station, distant about
twenty miles. The coast has always been con.
sdered dangerous and difficult one to weather in
a storm, as the sea rises In mountains and with
landward set. During the year 1876 there were two
disasters in the vicinity Of Kittyhawk station.
The first occurred March l. 1876, when the
Italian bark Nuova Ottawa, bound to Baltimore. in
ballast, went ashore twenty miles north Of the sta.
ton. The crew consisted OF thirteen men, nine Of
the men being drowned, and all tho crew from
Life Saving Station No were lost whilc attempt
ing to.board the -ated vessel. The second wreck
occurred Just one month after, when the schooner
Henry G. Fay, Captain Filbcrt master, sailing from
went ashore on the bank just hair way between the
Kittyhawk station and the scene OF the wreck OF
the Nuova Ottawa In this instance the captain
and crew were all saved but the vessel proved
total loss
SENT FROM FORTRESS MoNRoE-A THEORY
TO ACCOUNT FOR THE DIsAsTRR-sroRM SIG
NAILS UNHEEDED.
NORFOLK, Va, Nov. 24.11S77.
Information was received to-day that the United
States steamer Huron, with crew OF one hundred
and thrty-lour souls, went ashore this morning
about one O'Clock, on Lifc-saving station No !.
near Oregon Inlet, on the North Carolina coast. ana
was fast going to pieces The wrecking steamer
Resolutc was despatched by the Baker Brothers to
her assistance.
THE swATARA SENDS RELIEF.
As soon as the news OF the disaster reached the
headquarters OF the North Atlantic squadron in
Hampton Roads, Rear Admiral Trcnchard sent the
United States steamer Swatara and the tug Fortune
TO render all assistance possible.
THIRTY KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN SAVED
Later Information leaves no hope OF saving the
vessel She has gone to pieces under the fierce as
saults OF an unusually heavy sea and many bodies
have been washed ashore Thirty persons were
saved. None OF the names OF the victims or or the
Survivors are known
OFF on A CRUISE
The Huron LETT Fortress Monroe yesterday on a
cruise to Havana and the West Indies
DIsREGARDISG STORM SIGNALS.
The storm signals have been dying for three DAYS.
and 1t Is thought strange that tile warning should
have been disregardcd There was a fierce storm
raging all last night along the coast, tho wind blow.
ing at the rate OF seventy mics an nour.
WAS HER MACHINERY DIsABLED2
The theory OF those well acquainted with the