The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-11-29
Terrible Disaster To United states Slcop'
f-War. One Hundred Men Drowned.

OF War. One Hundred Men Drowned.
NORFoLk. Va, Nov. a. Information
was "ceivcd to-day that the steamer HUI |
ron, with I34 souls, went ashore this fore
noon about one o'clock, off Life Saving |
Station I, near Oregon Inlet, on the North |
Carolina coast. The wrecking steamer
ReSolute was despatched toh her assistance
Admiral Trenchard sent the I. S. steamer
Swatara and the tug Fortune to render
assistance.
Later information slys she has gone to
pieces under an unusually heavy sea.
Many bodies were washed ashore. Thirty
of those on board were saved. No names
Of the victims or survivors are known.
The Huron left Fort Monroe yesterday,
on a cruise to the West Indies. The storm
signals were flying three days and it is
thought strange this warning should have
been disregarded. There was a fierce
storm raging all night along the coast,
the wind having blown about 20 miles an
hour
Those who knew the Huron say she
was not a frst-class job. She was built
at Chester, Pa, and was first christened
the Alliance, but afterwards was named
the Huron. She was third-rate screw,
of 54l tons, and when she went ashore
had a crew of 10 men and Is officers.
She carried four guns and was schooner
rugged.
The theory of those well acquainted
with the coast is as follows The Huron
got caught in the height of a gale and
while trying to hold on head to the wind
her machinery gave way. her sails were
useless, and she drifted ashore. 1t ap-
pears that there was no assistance rem
dered the crew from the shore, the life
saving station not having been manned.
WASHINGTON, Nov. y. The Signal
officer at Kitty Hawk reports as follows:
Among those saved were L. F. Wharbu
ton Of Pennsylvania, Cadet Engineer;
Lucien Young of Kentucky, Ensign: --
Dennis Of Ohio Assistant Engineer; Geo.
R. Ryan and Joseph Murphy, ships cooks;
Cary \. Sanders of Pennsylvania, Passed
Assistant Paymaster; Patrick Kane, SET
man. The other names are withheld.
Assistance is wanted Immediately. The
men were only half clothed. only four
officers and thirty men were saved. The
captain persisted. Capt. Palmer's name
is not given. The Huron is completely
i't>N.
In conversation among naval officers
ideas are advanced as not improbable as
to what rendered the steamer Huron SO
helpless as to drift on shore. No one Just
now can satisfy himself with any theory,
though several believe her engines must
have broken down. If sucn was the case
she would Of sheer necessity have dropped
her anchor and thus it is thought among
some naval officers, that she certainly did
SO, but the cable being unable to stand
the strain must have parted with the
awful result that the telegraph from Kitty
Hawk publishes.
The fate of the unfortunate captain and
officers and crew of the Huron is sadly
discussed throughout the city. The off
GERS were nearly every one of them we'll
known here, and all were regarded in
every particular as capable and energetic
nayigatOrs and seamen.
A telegram from Kitty Hawk . Z. NJ
says: Have Just returned from the wreck,
a distance of eight miles down. No man
is at the wreck at present. Walked there
and back with medicine and such other
articles as | could carry, no horse being
available. This forenoon the chief officer
ltIuStu W give lUt llttllCS VI lIDSc loSl VI
saved. as he feared to break the news too
suddenly to relatives The Huron is com
pletely under water and a total loss.
NORFOLK, Nov. "a The steamer Chow
an left this evening under Lieut.. Watson
with stores and men for the relief of the
survivors of the Huron disaster. Ensign
Young, senior surviving officer of the i'll
tated ship, is at Mays Head. n c., and
confirms the report that thirty men and
four officers are all that were saved. He
says that no assistance could be rendered
from shore.
BosToN, NOV. -. Intense interest is
felt here at the news of the loss Of the
Huron, her commander, Geo. =. Ryan be
ing a native of this city and very highly
esteemed by Il large circle of friends, .lIe
ten days since expecting to be absent
only a few months.
THE LAST SEEN OF THE HURON.
The Captain of brig Mississippi, which
arrived at Baltimore Monday. reports
that Friday evening Just before dark, he
met and passed the [. 5. steamer Huron,
sixteen miles south southeast Of Cape
Henry, heading south under full sail with
the exception of mlzzen GAIT topsail, with
steam on and apparently using it. The
Mississippi passed to leeWard Of the HUI
ron so close that the captain Of the Mis-
sisspp says he could have thrown his
cap on board her. He describes the Of
ficers Of the deck, and gives details of
the steamers appearance at the time of
passing.
The wind was south southeast with We
lOcity OF fifteen miles per hour. The HUI
ron was close hauled, heading two points
west OF the line of the coast, that is in the
exact direction of and not thirty miles
from where she struck. She was pitching
heavily and going through the water
slowly, and was six and a quarter miles
off False Cape in eight fathoms of water
There was nobody in the chains heav-
ing the lead, and the captain, who is an
experienced shipmaster, and intimately
acquainted with the coast, was astonished
to see the Huron running in the direction
she was. He says she could have sailed
back to Cape Henry with the wind abaft
her beams, at any time during the night
He was probably the last person who saw
the vessel before her loss
biSdSufOuS FlOOuS ana IorrlDl6 GALES.
Heavy rains and disastrous Hoods oc-
CURED Saturday and Sunday and extend
ed over large extent of territory and a
heavy gale prevailed on the British coast
The rivers in Virginia rose to greater
height than before for many years The
James river at Richmond rose twenty
five feet above high tide, being consider
ably hlUh4p than Il in tho
freshet Of 1870. A large part of the city
was flooded, and many were driven from
one story to another of their houses, and
finally had to be removed in boats Three
hundred and fifty feet Of a bridge across
the river to Manchester was carried away.
At Danville, v, $lO0,O0O damage was
occasioned by rain. At Lynchburg,
bridge was carried away. Six miles of
railroad bridges of the Atlantic, Missis-
sippi and Ohio Railroad were DESTROYED.