The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-11-30
FeUSf.l Sacrifice of HaDtdH Ltfe.
A UNITED STATES MAN NoFwAR WRECKED
AND ONLY THIRTY OF CREW or ONE
HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOUR Es-
C.PEFRoM wATERY GRAVE.

AND ONLY THIRTY OF CREW OF ONE
HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOUR Es-
| CAPE FROM a wATERY GRAVE.
| NoRro,K. Va. Nov. 24-Informatior
was received to-day that the United States
steamer Huron. with a crew of one hun
drcd and thirty four souls. went ashore
this morning about Que O'Clock, off Life
saving Station No. :. near Oregon inlet, on
the North Carolina coast. and was last go
ing to pieces. The wrecked steamer Res
oute was dispatched by the Baker Dioth-
ers TO her assistance.
AS soon as the news OF the disaster
reached the headquarters of the North At
lantic squadron i'll Hampton Roads, Rear
Admiral rrenehard sent the United ; ates
steamer SwataIa and the tug Fortune &c
render all assistance possible.
Later information leaves no hope Of saw
ing the vessel She has gone to pieces un-
der the fierce assaults of an unusually
heavy sea and many bodies have been
washed ashore. Thirty persons we're saw
ed. None of the names OF the victims or
of the survivors arc known.
The Huron lef, Fortress Monroe yester-
day on cruise to Havana aud the West
Indies.
/ The storm signals have been flying for
.hi ee days, and il is thought strange that
the warning should have been disregarded
night along the coast, the wind blowing at
the rate of seventy miles an hour.
The theory of those well acquainted with
the coast is that the Huron got caught in
The height Of the gale, and while trying to
hold on, head to the wind, her machinery
gave way, her sales were useless, and she
drfted ashore. 1t appears that there was
no assistance rendered from the shore. the
life-savinC station not having heen manned.
The United States steamer Powbattan
has left Fortress Monroe for the scene of
the wreck.
( WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-The observer
At the scene of the wreck reports as follows:
! Drowned whose bodies have been recover
ed White mcn-Thomas VI Farland, Al
exander Cameron, Barret Batche. William
Green and James Couch. COlored-Geo.
/ w. Miller and Matthias Hayes. Saved
+ Officers, Conway, master; Denig, assist
ant engineer Young, ensign; Warburton,
cadet engineer. Men-Pe' er Duffy, Joseph
Robinson, Frederick Hoffman, Dan Denig,
Dominic O. Donald, Harry Nelson, Thomas
Price (colored), John Calling, J. Z. Hol-
land, Thomas Carey, Joseph Hyues, Viii
} liam M'Hugh, Joseph Murphy, Frank
Walls, Dennis +. Deary, Michael Tranor,
/ Edward Tranor, Antoine Williams. Sam
! uel Clark, Michael Kennedy, William
( Brooks, Harry Evey, Daniel Dergan, Mich
/ ael Durken, Frank May, Robert Sampson,
Patrick Cane, William lIouseman, August
/ L. Arenberg.
Cause-Thick weather, fresh gale di-
rectly on shore fore and aft sails, set reef
foresail and mainsail carried away iib
stay bent aud the forestorm stay sail was
struck between one and half past one in
the morning. The boats were washed
from the boats davits, leeward. The
! first cutter was swamped about ten min
+ utes later. Lieutenant Palmer was drown
ed about the same time the captain was
/ The living saved themselves by swimming
ashore, No aid was obtained from shore
except when near the beach, The men of
war Powhattan and SxaJara and the brig
Fortune are anchored abreast of the wreck
Flag communication opened with them
I through the steamer ID. and J. Baker. No
! assistance can be rendered from the steam
er. the surf is still heavy. The survivors
go to Norfolk this evening.
The signal service observer at the scene
OF the wrecked Huron reports at 5:25 p. III. e.
/ to the chief signal officer as follows The
suIf boat of the wreck ing steamer, ID. & j J..
/ Baker, in attempting to laud was swamped
! with nine men on board. james S.
Yksoue, Stephen Bell, Dennis M'Cuy,
, Willis Walker and Captain j. J. Guthrie,
I paymaster of the life saving station, were
lost
Secretary Thompson has telegraphed to
tD6 naval Sntnplll1eS at NOEtplk TO send
( the surviving officers of the lost Huron to
Washington. They will probably reach
this city Tuesday morning. Nothing di-
/ rectly from naval officer has yet reached
! the department with regard to the wreck.
The United States steamer Haron was
/ one of the eight sloops of war authorized d
by act of Congress, approved February 16,
/ 1873, all of which have already been
I launched. Her frame was laid Septem Der
g
John w. Easily. Her dimensions were AS
follows: Length over ALL 213 feet length
of deck, 1911 feet depth of hold, Is feet,
! and she was of about 650 tons register
Her battery consisted of one eleven inch
pivot gun, four niue inch broadside guns
and one sixty FOUNDER rifle. She was
built at the Norfolk navy yard and launch
ed on March 8, 1873, being the fins vassel
, launched from that yard since the close of
the war. She was bark IIgged, had back
action compound screw engine Cf 500 horse
power, aud was Que of the handsomest
corvettes i'll tue service.
On March lS, 1877, she sailed from / art
Royal, South Carolina, on a scientific
cruise in the West Indies and on the Span
Ish main, having been ordered to Port
Spain, island of Trinidad, where her spe-
cial work was commenced. This was the
carrying Of chrunometric differences of
/ longitude from that point along the north
! ern coast of South America as far as Aspn-
wall, and the preparation Of sailing dlrec-
tiOns for entering the various ports she Wis
tied. During the trip she visited all the
important ports on the northern aud east
ern coasts of South America For this wol k
she carried a complete and valuable array
of apparatus. She returned from this
cruise in August, arriving at Philadelphi
on the 18th of that month. After remain.
lug at this port "A short time she sailed
south again, and was in Hampton Roads,
off Fortress Monroe, on the Goth instant
Size sailed thence for Havana yesterday
morning.
The North Carolina coast, upon which
the Huron was wrecked, is one of the mos,
dangerous of any along the Atlantic sea-
board. The coast line begins at Little
River inlet, on the borders of Sou h Caro-
lima. and runs nearly east to Cape Fear