Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-07-20


noise II the streets q anout cry enas ensY
were coming. man came 20 ene Meesing
hous Door and cauld Gus q FRIEND anu sald
they would bee here ia I'VE minutes tlMs
whereupon some friends Went out aud Weht
home, but the most part were favored 20
sit still, there was constant hoafing q
Cannon all this while every one o. Wn'cn
gard the House, but at last came one enat
even shok the walls very much ana very
much surprised the people, women burned
pale and began to cry, but sat still ana
seemed TO get over tue shock Anese can
non seemed so hard ! thot II was Likely
they were III ye lower end OF tne Town
which was the more dreadful. Wnen we
came out OF Meeting ali seemed SUI, ahsl
QUIET In SIDE note alteFWaIu plaeeu
there u reads: 'l5 was saia shas gIsat silok
was snip blo@h up. toJ % shas ene
FRIENDS - bieetlng e. upper nloolsseo"n,
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augusta IN ON way AOtli illousi' g'u,
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snoon "a9 .e.S % ~. y =
ZIP Had onarfars are IL miles from Phila-
ID on tba 0ld yark Poad i, M and a.
least 81, m;las azvav from, Pad Rank
Tobn F Watson anthor Of Watson,s
Annals IN ssIJ;storic Tales of (llden Timeu
saws. ssThs h,aw;,,g mn ~ the Auonsta was
attsndad with : shock similar 70 that Of an
aartbonala ;mmad;ataJv starred for
scbnylliIl no;nt where hhe Britisb had 4
hstssrv and - ~ sona firing The officers
anneared much cl,aorined al the events of
az dav y ~
Charles Coffin dAscrihes ;he EXPLOSION
az follows
s.col smith from Fort MifIinl sent a
red hot shot at the 64 gun shin. the Angus
ia. which struck the hull. and in a very
short time the ship was in flames. She was
on mud bank and could not get away
The fire worked its way into the seams OF
the ship. The sailors tried in vain to put 1t
out They fed to their boats, and about
noon the ship blew up with tremendous
explosion. ~
Three days after the Augusta blew up,
boats from the American fleet went down
to her wreck and also to the wreck OF the
Merlin to gather up the spolls az the follow
ing accounts show:
.sOn Yesterday (Oct 26th) the Commo-
dore ordered five Gallevs down 60 the
wrecks. Two frigates that Law near them
Immediately weighed fanchor1 and went
down as far as the lower chevaux-de-frise
Many If the boats went on aboard. and
had the Pleasure of being ON board of Part
Of a 81 Gun Ship-most of the guns are in
the wreck. and we brought off two of her "a
FOUNDERS. and this day are preparing to get
the rest if the ships do not come to near
ns #*474 The people on board the Au-
gusta mnst have cone off with great Pre-
oipitation, as we hare among the rubbish
found great numbers of Cloaths, part Of
their Books, &c &c, that they seem to have
taken nothing with them, but what they
had on.
s.Tbrea az tbe F;re Rrios and one Fire
Sb;, rrera sant do5r, m ths F,,emv bnt
t,,air stat aag - hid, arornd tbasn and
ca ~ 4a;, r;,,er;ne so ,o,cb that the
~ fr;chtoneJ md sat them 81, Fire
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