Year: 1859




The settlement The passengers complain scro ely Of she
natives for stealing.


store in which the baggage taken from the ship
was broken toto and the vauabes stolen leaving several
o. The passengers literally without change Of raj nen


The Gladiator took all tho passengers Marie Jossph
and the officers also, and brought them Halifax. Some
had already left in a coasliDg schooner.


TIE purser having left In q schooner with the mails and
PAPERS before the agent Of the Press arrived the list Of
passengers cannot be given


correct list Of the dead yet be made out in addt
ton TO what has been already telegrsphei.


Arrangements are being made in Halifax To assist such
OF III. passengers are destitute


The purser of the Indian supplies the following ae-
count -


On the morning Of the 2lst inst, at five O'Clock, in
hazy but not thick weather. the vessel struck on Deal
Lodges, great number Of irregular rocks, almost
tely covered at high water, and which the
break with great violence in stormy weather. These
edees are at the mouth Of the small Gshng harbor called
Marie Joseph about sixty five miles east Of Halifax The
vessel went on without shock, but with rip from the
sound of which it was very evident that the bottom Of
the forward part at least literally out Before
the Aremen could leave the stoke hole the water was
nearly up to the roof furnace doors twenty min
utes the engine room was Alled almost up TO





possible, but with difficulty. The starboard and
port boats, Nos. and 2 swung davts low
to be clear Of the rail- The entire efforts Of the
then directed towards lowering the boats three and four
No. g. under the charge Of Mr. Smith, the second officer
was launched in safety, but all attempts to launch No.
were for long while frutess. While the men
employed and as nearly as can recocct, about forty
FIVE minutes after she struck with tremendous crash,
the vessel began to part amidshps Most Of the hands
left the boat at which they working and crowded
those which out at this time that the loss
Of life took place. The forward boas being
the seerage those which the STORAGE passengers
crowded. The German families, well all the other
passengers who lost lost there The only way
in which account for II is this When the vessel
struck, the almost calm. Immediately after
siderable swell arose. and at the very time she began to
break up the sea was breaking with great violence
against boat No. l, which crowded. and that some
ncauous person cried to those standing by cut the
fall His orders obeyed, and the consequence
the stem smashed to atoms against the ships side
and most Of the people in her perished. Port boat No.
2, which also swung davis. shared the same fate.
Une of the davs gave way with the weight of the people
in her and at the moment with boat No. l. she
swamped and turned bottom upwards. II is supposed
that the engineers drowned out of her. Mr.. Smith
then brought round his boat to eeward of the vessel
where he TO lay off until daylight would enable him
pick up from the wreck but this he found
impossible do He driven out 10 sea, and with
great difficulty he managed TO bring his boat to land,
about thirty five miles westward from the wreck. An
other boat in charge Of Mr.. Tbbetts, fourth
officer, and one in charge Of the boatswain,
after vainly endeavoring for hours to return
to the wreck got ashore Marie Joseph There was also
another boat lowered in comparative safety; but filed
soon as she reached the water Mr. Bggan, third officer
down to assist those already in the boat bang but
driven out to and has not been heard Of
About day light the vessel parted completely In two the
forward part falling almost its beam, aud tho
after part settling down In about twenty feet Of water
Throughout the day the passengers and crew were
taken of by boats belonging to the place. and through the
night they sought reward themselves by visiting the
wreck and carrying of all the silver plate together with the
whole clothing belonging to passengers and Every
effort was made that night to get boats crew, but
single man could be found who would 60. The magis-
trates endeavorng to trace the guilty parties but
thus far unsuccessfully.


boats crew went out on Tuesdey morning to see l
any Of the wreck remained and they returned with
that not single plate of the vessel be seen
Earl Mulgrave, Lieutenant Governor OF Nova Scotia;
Sir Houston Stuart Admiral Of the British West India
fleet, and Captain Hickey, of the English steamer
Gladiator prominently jealous and successful in
their efforts to relieve the passengers and crew Of the
Indian.


Rooms the Agent Of the Associated Press feels under
special obligations for courteses extended him while
preparing the report for transmission over the wres