New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-02-10

The: Story oEe1t Famous shipu1sck.
Ex-Lieut. Governor Young Of OMob be-
gan his military career ten years before
the civil war, as apriyate in the regular
artillery, and was one of the soldiers on
board the steamer San Francisco,
wrecked at sea, and: went through ter
rible experiences which he narrated the
other day to a ST: Louis reporter.
There were TOO passengers on board the
steamer, with 200 celored servants in
addition, to supply tbs steamship COM
panies with help en- the California
coast Among the passengers were five
companies of the Third Artillery, under
command of Colonel Gates. Included
among the passengers were thirty la
dies and twenty-five children.
"We left New York. said the gov
ernor, ION the Dist day of December,
1852, and were wrecked on the morn
ing of the Oath day of December, owing
to the breaking Of the engine in a terri
fc gale, in which the slip foundered;
Che masts were carried away with the
snaokestacks. A portion Of one of the
engines broke and the 1udder chains
broke, leaving us a wreck. The gales
lasted thirteen days, from the "a Of De-
cember till the 7th Of January, and the
weather was intensely cold. The ship
drHted toward the Gulf Stream.
about six days afterwards great wave
swept over the ship, by which Major
Washington, lieutenant Smith, Major
George Taylor and their families were
carried away. heard the shrieks of
people drowning, and saw, orimagined
l saw the head and arms of those strug-
Cling in the waves, and saw them gradu-
ally disappear without the possibility
OF any help or any assistance being
rendered them. After that terrible
gale [ was the only man left above deck,
having caught hold of two cross bars,
and thereby sustained myself and pre-
vented myself from being washed
overheard. On the 9Th Of, January
a ship hove in sight and sailed around
us and went away without disclosing
what or who she was. The gale was
still blowing and she was quarter of
a mile off. Then hope faded from our
hearts as she disappeared. But the
next morning at ten o'clock; She same
ship again approached us, and while
some distance away we could descry the
following Legend fastened to her mizzen-
mast: Be Of good cheer; & will save
or sink by you Creighton The ship
was the Three Bells, Captain Creighton
in command. That gave lie to our
people, and revived their hopes of res
cue. The strange ship sailed around
us for two days, putting herself in sight
during the continuance of the, gale, and
on the third day, the 7th Of January,
she came with another ship; which she
had hailed. She was the Autocrat,
packet ship, on her: way from New York
to Liverpool. She was loaded to the
scuppers with provisions Of all kinds.
The master of this ship was named Shat
fer, and, in my opinion, was the mean
est man that ever lived, be-
cause, after 1913 men and; woman had
been rescued from the boats, he refused
to break his bulk but fed. the unfortun-
ates on oatmeal and bug crackers which
had been left from the previous voyage Of
emigrants. [ was on board his ship.
So mean was he that he.refused on one
occasion to give enough coal to fill
sack to sink poor. girl who had died
on the passage, and the sailors made up
ballast with old links Of chain and old
iron to sink the dead girl. A remons-
trance was made to the captain by some
Of the passengers. He said that he
would not be permitted to break bulk
without special license of the con-
signees. Notwithstanding all this,
Congress in its generosity made pres
ent to the captain Of $4,000.
We were landed. at Liverpool and got.
back to New York on the 10Th Of March,
1853. Captain Creighton, the no.,
ble'man who said he would sail or sink
by us, dd;au he promised. His ship.
was heavily laden with chloride Of lime,
and Scotoh whisky, and when the boats
had picked up and brought the San
Francisco passengers On board, includ-
ing women and children, he had no
scruples about custom houses, duties OLE
breaking: bulk, but threw open his
matches and cast overheard enough Of
his freight to make room for about two
hundred of the rescued people who had
been taken by him, and landed then
safe at New York, he being on the way
from Glasgow to New York when he
fell in with the wrecked ship. Congress
voted Captain Creighton large sum Of
money and a new ship called the New
Three Bells which was built at the
navy yard in Brooklyn, a beautiful model
of which was placed in the patent Office
at Washington.
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