Daily Republican., 1880-09-04
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uobtoNuAoE NOFh OAuS UvOs ssS"-
ia o Hurricane ON the FiOrids
Coast -Genoral A. r. A. TOrbert of
Delaware ameng the Victims
He is washed Ashore Lifrless
and Barred ON the Beach the
Disaster I'm Detail.
The loss of the Havana steamship
Vera Cruz Is confirmed beyond any
doubt by the report Of seven Survivors,
who have been washed ashore near st.
Augustine, Florida, and the news has a
peculiar and mournful interest to Del.
awarsrns owing to the fact that General
Alfred T. A. Torbert, of Milford, is
among those who were lost.
The scenes on board the vessel dur
ing the violent hurricane Of Saturday
and Sunday must have been terrisle,
but the dispatches give only a brief
view OF the distress OF those on board.
The vessel became unmanageable, the
Captain and many OF the crew were
washed overheard, and then, at $50
o'clock, sunday morning, the steamer
ddenly went down. The life-bosts
and RATS had been rendered useless by
the storm, and the men saved foated
ashore on whatever they couldgrasp.-
There were 70 per sons on board, in
Guiding the crew. According to the
latest dispatches, seven are known to
have been saved, and there is q report
that three others have reached the
shore, making ten in all. Only one
passenger is mentioned among them.
THE STORY OF THE DISASTER.
Sr. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Sept. 3, $50 P.
M.-Some fishermen discovered on
Tuesday last, few barrels, boxes,
trunks, &c., on the beach. In q few
hours hundreds Of parcels came ashore.
Among them were two mail bags. Both
were opened by the searching parties
during the night and left on the beach.
Others picked up the loose mail and re-
placed it as best they could and
brought it to town. One bag contained
mail postmsrked Paris, and addressed
to Havana. The other was full of
promis ,uous mail.
The news soon arrived from Matan-
zas, Is miles south Of this port, that
goods were coming ashore there. The
body of man was also washed ashore.
A woman's body was seen out in the
breakers, but it failed to come shore.
Since the first discoveries the bodies
of ons man and two women and on ne
child were washed ashore. The names
have not been yet ascertained. One
man had papers addressed to Herman
dez, and a marriage certificate was
iound with that name, dated at New
York.
A mail, bag has come ashore with a
tag attached marked "Rsturn to N.
Y" 1t it were letters dated New York
Aug. 25, 1880, per City of Vera Cruz,
No portioLs of the wreck have as yet
come ashore, but it is fully believed
that it is the steamer City of Vera Cruz.
rhe bodies found have bOen buried.
They were badly swollen. ALI the
jewelry, &C., has been taken of, 20 that
friends and relatives can be able to
identify them.
T0EBERr's BODY FOUND
AND BURIED.
ST.. AUGUSTINE, Sep. 3.-Seven me u
came ashore, saved from the steamer
Vera Cruz-one passenger, one engi-
neer, one oiler, and four seamen. The
Vera C az foundered at S 80 o'clock
Sunday morning. Everything went
right down. The captain and nearly
all the deck hands were drowned be.
fore the ship foundered. They we're
swept of by the heavy sea. The life.
boats and RATS were all bursted to
pieces. All the men had life preservers.
They we're washed ashore about 30
miles from hers on doors, planks, and
such floating material as they could
catch. They were in the water about
26 hours.
NJ. Talbot and James Kelley, sailors,
are two of the men saved. Gen. Tor |
bert is drowned, and was buried by the |
jsamen saved. He was buried Wed.
1esiay, in J. H. l.. Botsfnhrst's place,
1t Daytona, Fla. The saved men say
hat the fires went out, the pump fail
'i, and she got foul and put out drag.
)ns sea stove her in fore and aft. The
amps were out and the fires also. The
captain, mates, were all calling for
lelp to get assistance, and all at once
ii went down.
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