Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-11-14

espIed the floating hun Of q dismaste4 vessel
was On. the "a o. November, in latl.
tude 5C degree pHrth, longitude 66 degrees
40 minutes west. The Wind q The titie blew q
gale from the north, and a strong sea vas
running The weather was bitterly cold. Some
persons were on the hull signaling for help
with strips torn from their garments. Not
withstandlng the danger attending the effort,
: boat was lowered, aud, after a battle with
the elenbnts and at great rick of life. 9f all
concetned, six ber5ons 6n the. Wreck wete
saved. They we're ali thst sufftFedi attd they
were all passengers.
The schooner Petrol, Captain Fisher, sailed
on the 25th of October for a whaling VOYAGE
In the Atlantic, and carrying Portuguese pas
sengers, number Of paid-off whalemen re-
ttrning hof1ej to be landed at Fayal, in
Azores, aud on Madeira and On Canary
Islands. She encountered terrible gales
that swept the North Atlantic Oceafi
IN the last days of OctobeF and eatly DAYS Of
November. After being dismasted the sch6Jnef
became unmanagesble, and drifted a play
thing Of the gale. On the 29th Of October she
was capsiseH in stuall ana fifteen persons
were lost, including Captain Fisher. From
the 10Th Of October until the Sd Of no+etnbkr
six survivors clung to the wreck, exposed TO
the cold and storm and without covering, and
kept continually wet by the seas that swept
over them. They had some food, but little
water t" drink, and when relief came they
we're almBst lrdntis with 10Y. The Petrel was
small schooner of only sixty ons tins. The
master, George Fisher, was her owner as wsit.
She was built in lS40 in Newburyport, Massa-
chusetts. A list of the lost on the schooner
Petrel includes eight passengers, only one,
Benjamin Martin, an American. The rest OF
the passengers and all the crew we're Portu-
guese.
BAIftMoRE; N8v. g.
-.
left this port at four o'clock Yesterday after
noon for Charlestown with a full cargo and
seven passengers. When off Barren Island,
and about ten miles south of Sharps Island,
she c6llided with the >three-masted steamer
s. G. Tyton, Captain Nickerson; laden with
ice from Kennebec River for this port. At
lO:l5 the schooner sighted the steamer and
kept on her course under a leading
breeze and steering a point west of north.
Just before they met the course Of the
steamer was changed and she ran across the
course Of the scho5ner, whep a collision oc-
Cured at 1890 The bow OF the cchrrner
struck the hull of the steamer on line with
stroying the upper works. AS soon as they
could beloosed from each other, Captain Kirby
steered for shoal water, the collision having oc-
Cured Where the water was twelve fathoIns, but
before he proceeded half mile the steamer
went down. All the boats of the Falcon were
stove, though her life boat was made availa-
BILE, and the women and children first put into
1t and then the male passengers, and SEN to
the schooner. Before the boat returned
the Falcon bad gone down, and her officers
and crew, twenty-five in number, climbed
into the rigging, whence they were res
cued. The. schooner lay by until day
light When she continued her course and ar
rived here at five this afternoon. The passen-
gers lost all their clothing except what they
had on The schooner is damaged to the ex.
tent OF $500. The Falcon is about 900 tons
burthen, belongs to the Charleston Steamship
and Railroad Company, and is worth $25, 600
or $3O, 900. Her cargo is valued at about $780,
600, but much of that may be recovered.
She sank in seven fathoms of water, and her
l..astheads and topmasts are visible.