The daily gazette., 1879-12-24

WRECK OF AN IRON STEAMSHIP ON
HER WAY TO HAvANA-NEARLY POO
PERSONS BELIEVED TO BE DROWNED
"A ROCKET IN THE NIGHT AND
THEN SILENCE.
LONDON, Dec. %, 1879.
Part of the crew of the British steam
Liverpool Nov. 20 for New Orleans, have
been Landed at Queenstown by the
British ship Mallowdale, from Bsssein.
The Borussia was abandoned in . sink
ing condition on the I'd inst. The por-
tion Of the crew that was landed consist
ed Of the chef engineer, doctor, boat
swain and six seamen. They were pick
ed up on the 9th inst. In an open boat
by the Mallowdale. The Borussia had
le0 passengers, of which number 105
embarked at Liverpool and seventy five
at Corunna. The crew numbered fifty
four men. After leaving Corunna on
the oath of November she experienced
terrific weather and sprang a leak on
lst OF December, and the severity of
the weather increasing, she was aband-
oned ON the I'd about three hundred
and fifty miles southwest of fayal. The
| captain and the second officer remained
i'll the sinking steamer. The crew and
passengers embarked in eleven boats.
The nine survivors have no hope for the
other boats, having, before they separa-
ted, seen one boat capsize, drowning all
its occupants.
TALE OF THE SURVIVORS.
The survivors of the Borussia started
Immediately for Liverpool. 1t appears
that panic occurred among the pas
sengers and crew. The survivors state
that no order TO launch the boats and
prepare for the abandonment of the ves-
sci was given by the officers; the crew
themselves lowered the boats without
waiting for orders. About dozen pas
sengers got into the boats with part OF
the crew. The remainder of the passen
gers went down in the vessel with tn,
captain, second mate, three engineers
eleven tiremen, three stew ards, the car
penter and two boys. One boat swamp
7 ed alongside of the steamer, and its oc
r cupants, five men, were drowned. Tn
survivors state that at nine O'Clock OF
the night of the abandonment of the yes
. sci they saw a rocket ascend from tn
e steamer and soon after her masthea
# lights were seen to suddenly di sappear
N CAUGHT IN THE GALE.
The Ii mes Cork despatch says te
d men, survivors from the Borussia, -wer
Z landed by the Malowdale. Their name
are as follows:-Will illam Stuart Da,
! doctor; Doolittle, third officer; Wyht
IN fourth engineer, Henry Brown, BOA
swain; William Barnes, able scamai
s' James DIXON, quartermaster; AlexaLdt
l. Johnson and Henry Stevens, steward
a and Patrick Cam and Patrick Quinr
coal trimmers. One of the survivor
a states that seventy--ix passengers EN-
,s barked a, Liverpool The vessel reacf
ed Corunna on November %, all wei
After having shspped some cargo an
I'm bar ked atout eighty Spanish em
A grants. The BorussIa proceeded tor II
a, vana on the 18th, the wind being ligl
from the southeast, with calm sea q
in Novemb Der 50 the wind freshened al
ut increased to "A gale. On the followir
day 1t suddenly chopped TO the norti
ht northwest, blowing strong, with a heay
IS or Jss sea, in which the ship LAHORE
heavily. AT noon she sprang aIea
We amidships. All efforts at the puml
Ic- were frultless 10 keep the ship free ri
~. water filled the engine room and stok
hole, putting out the fires and stoppir
n, the engines. The crew stili continued
if work AT the pumps until next day
inst, when IL was determined to alta
II. don the vessel. Her boats were launc
lid ed aud provisloned and a part of u
crew, with about a dozen passengers, q
into them. Those of the crew who
Ct mained by the vessel were the captai
80, second mate, three engineers, elev,
~ hremeu, three stewards, the carpent
all and two boys. Shortly alter leaving d
in vessel one of the boats swamped, a
the occupants, five in number, VT
ia drowned.
m The Borussia was an iron steamsf
NJ "A "a
ed Greenwich, in 1866. She was bark ril
is ed, ~ feet long, 81 feet wide and 25 t,
:, in depth. She belonged to Liverpo
1t, and AZ the time the disaster overto
rs. her she was engaged III trade with n
for Orleans