THE PERRYSBURG JOURNAL.
235
Further from the Arctic.
Quebec, Oct. M. The baric dambria
picked up Capt. Luce, 7 or 8 of the passen
gers, and 5 of the crew of the Arctic, from a
raft.
The following is a correct list of the pas
sengers saved with Capt. Luce: F. May,
. F. Allen, James Smiih, of the Arctic. 1.
A. G. Francois of the Vesta-seaman, Pat
Noran, A. Grant, Mike Russell, John Riley,
and John Patterson.
The nami's of those who arrived at Que
bec on the ship Huron, ore, Luke McCarty,
Richard Mucline, John A. Brys, Christian
Monm, Erasiits Miller, J. Drury, James
Ward, D. IVnny, R. Bryson, James Conly,
James Conner, F. Wilson, and Grant Con
way, Mrs. Collins and family lost.
Statement of Captain Lure :
Tlr: Arctic sailed from Liverpool on
Wednesday, ihe. :21st Sept., at 11 A. M.,
with 233 passengers and about 150 of a crew.
Nothing of spei.ial note occurred during the
pasnig-, until Wednesday the 27th, when at
noon we WPn on 1 Ik; Banks, in latitude 4G
deg. 45 min., with long
west, steering
west by compass.
The weather had been foggy during the
day. A distance of one-half to three-fourths
ot a mile could Ik; seen but only at inter
vals of a few minutes. A very dense fog
followed, by being sufficiently clear to see
one or two miles.
At noon I left the deck for the purpose of
workiim out the position of the ship. In
iilteen minutes 1 heard a cry ot liard a star-ieti
from the oJIicer of the dec k. I rushed
on deck, and had just got out when I felt a
crash forward; at the same moment saw
steamer under the starboard how, and thei
next moment she struck against our guards
and passed astern of us. 'flu bows of the
htrangrr seemed to be literally cut or crushed
o(T for full ten feet ; and it seemed, that she
must probably sink in a few minutes. Tak
ing a hasty glance of our ship, and believing
we were compatively uninjured, my first im
pulse wax to endeavor to save the lives of
those on board the sinkine vessel. The. boats!
were cleared, and the fust first officer and
ix men L-ft with cue boat, when it was
found that our own ship was leaking fear
fully. Ihe engmers were set to work, in
structed to put on the steam pumps, and the
Jour deck pumps were worked by the passen
gers and crew. The ship was headed for
laud, which I judged to be about 50 miles!
distant.
I was compelled to leave my boat andj
crew with the. first officer to take can of
themselves. Several ineffectual attempts
were made to stop the leak, by getting sails
over the bows, and finding th. leak gaining
on us very fast, no' withstanding ail our very
nowerful ofiorts to keen her free, I resolved
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nn
lint ,i ennnnr hml llli illtPllint
than the firenrn and others rushed into them!?'
In cnilnnF n n till t ! t 1 1 m Speinrr tVlia Cf!ltf nf
things, 1 ordered' the boats' astern to be keptjsPe
get the boats read v. and as many ladies'
d children placed 'in tlvm as possible ;
t no sooner had the attempt been madeas
in readiness until order should b; restored,
when to rny dismay, I saw them cut the
rope and disappear astern in the fog, an
other boat was worked down by persons
rushing at the davits, and many persons
precipitated into the sea and were" drowned
this occurred while I had boon engaged in
rvttiii" the starboard guard boat readv, and
placed the 21 officer in char"-, wh-n
same fearful scene as with the first boat was
enacted, men leaped from the top of the
rail, 20 feet, pushing and maiming those who
were in the boat. I then gave orders to the
21 officer to let go and row after the ship
women and children as soon ns the fires were
out and the engines stopped. My attention
ws then directed to the other quarter boat,
which was found broken down but hanging
by the tackle, i rush was rnacb; for her also,
end some down or fifteen got in and cut the
tackle. It was soon out of sight. In the
wan tint. I found that not a seaman was
left on board, irt a carpenter, and without
any tools to assist us to build a raft, ns our
only hope, and the officer left was Mr. Do
ran, the 3d o Ilicer, who aided with many of
the passengers, who deserve great praise, for
their coolness and energy in doing all in
their power up to the moment befura the
under the stern, to be ready and take on board
ship sunk. The chief engineer with a part
of his assistants had taken our the smallest
deck boat, and before the ship went down,
pulled awuy with about ID persons. We
had succeeded in getting the fall and main
yard, and two top gallant yards overboard,
and such oilier small spars and materials as
we could collect, when I was fully convinc
ed that the. ship must go down in a short
time not a moment was to be lost in get
ting the spars lashed together, to form a
raft, to do which it became necessary to get
the life boat into the water.
This being accomplished, I saw Mr. Do
rian, till oiiice ot the boat, taking care to
keep the oars on board, to prevent them
from leaving the ship, hoping still to get
! ir.rwt f 1 ..I. .1.1. I.. h,.i.
, Vc Ti TT 1u,limu V 'f ,
lilt lensr I irnr hurl mm n nt mti rli-rn hli. nrri-
. ::: v
irts in collecting me spars, wie. n an uiurm
was given that the ship was sinking, and
the boat was shoved off without oars, or
anything to help them with, and when th
snip sank, thi boat, had got un eig.Uh oi a
mile to lecwiird. and in an instant, about a
QIJarU... U) f lv M t, , t ,iow
carrying every soul ' on board with her. I
j soon found myself on the surface, after a
brief 6tni;zIe, with mv own helpless child in
my arms. I again lound mvselt impelled
downward to a great depth, and before 1
readied the surface a second tini", had near
ly perished, and lost the hold of my child.
As I struggled to the surface of the water, a
most awful and heart-rending seen? present-
nseu io rny view, uver ZJU men, wo
board ' uien and children, struggling together,
! amidst pieces cf wreck of every kind, calling
ajo each oilier for help, and imploring God
to help them, Such an appallmgscene may
God preserve me from witnessing again. I
was in the act of trying to save my child,
when a portion of the paddle box came up
edgewise, just grazing my head, and falling its
whole weight upon the head of my darling
child. In another moment I beheld him
lying lifeless in the; water. I succeeded in
getting on to the top of the paddle box, in
company with eleven others ; on2 however,
soon left for another piece, finding that it
could not support so many. The others re-
I
l suffer very severely for water, except
i'i'
were very much favored, although
mained. till they were, one by one, relieved
by oeath. We stood in water at a tempera
ture of 45, up to our knees, and frequently
the sea broke directly over us. We soon
separated from our friends on the other parts
of the wreck, and passed the night. each one
of us expecting every hour would be our
last. At last the wished for morning came,
surrounded with dense fog, not a living soul
to be seen but our own party, i;een now
being left. In the course of the. morning we
saw soma water casks and other things, be
longing to our ship, but nothing that we
could net. or afford ns any relief. Our raf;
v?3 6taaily 5tUU"S; ?s,Vabi!r
j About noon Mr. k. M. Y oot hull, cf N. .,
"Sieved bydeatn.ail the others now hi-
we had not a drop on the raft ; the day con
tinued fogv. except just at noon, as near as
we euul-d judge, we had a clear horizon, for
about half an hour, and nothing could be
seen but water and pky. Nisiht came on.
! d,ark "'' dreary, with our minds wade up
lIlat neither of us would live to see the light
of another day, for very soon three more oi
the!?"r suitering party were relieved oy aeatn,
leaving Mr. Alien, a voting man and mvsrlf.
Feelin-' mvs.lf itinrr exhausted. 1 now sni!
down for the first time, at 8 o'clock in the
evening, on a trunk which had been found
on the wreck. In this way I slept a little
throughout the niht, and became somewhat
refreshed
About an hour before daylight, now Fri
day the 29th. we. saw a vessel light near us.
we all exerted ourselves to the utmost of our
strength in hailing until we became exhaust-
led. In about a quarter of an hour the light
disappeared to the east of us.
Soon after daylight a bark hove in sight
to the northwest, as the fog having lighten
ed a little, steering apparently for us, but in
a short time she seemed to have changed her
courS'?, and we were doomed to disappoint
ment. Yet I feel hopes that some of our
fellow sufferers may have ben seen and res
cued. Shortly after we had given up all
hopes of being rescued by the bark, a ship
was discovered to the east of us steering
directly for us. We now watched her with
the most intense anxiety, as she approached,
the wind varying caused her to change her
course several points. About noon they
fortunately discovered a man on the raft near
them, and succeeded in saving him, by the
second mate jumping over the side, and mak
ing the rope fast around him by which he
was got on board. This man proved to be a
passenger on board the steamer with which
we came in collision. lie informed the
captain that others were near on pieces of
wreck, and by going aloft he saw us and three
others. We were the first to which the boat
of Mis., second-class passenger
' I ..
saved
was sent, and safely taken on board about
3 P. M. The next was Mr. James Smith,
The others
were five, one of our firemen. The
ship proved to be the Cambria of this port,
from Glasgow bound for Montreal, Capt.
John Russell, who commanded the bark
Jerry Stevens and was rescued kindly by
jCapt. Nye of the Pacific. Of Capt. Russell,
it would be scarcely possible to say enough
in praise for the kind treatment all of us
have received from him during the time we
have been on board his ship, His own com
forts have been given up in every respect for
our relief.
Rev. Mr. Walker and lady, and another
gentleman who were passengers by the Cam
bria, have been unceasing in their endeavors
to promote our comfort. To them and to
all on board, we shall ever owe a debt of
gratitude for their unbounded kindness to us.
From the Frenchman who was picked up,
I learned that the steamer with which we
came in collision was the screw steamer
Vesta, from St. Pierre, bound from and bs
longing to Greneille, France. We learn
the "Vesta was steering E. by E. and was
crossing our course two points, all sails set,
wind W. byS. Her anchor stock about 7
by 4 inches square struck the bow of the
Arctic about 18 inches above the water line,
an immense hole had been made at the. same
time by the fluke of the anchor about 2 feet
j
ning, that the
N. B with or
tic buJ. j couU
below the water line, raking fore and aft the
plank, and finally breaking the chains, leav
ing the stock remaining in through the side
of the. Arctic, and it is not unlikely that as
so much of her bows had been crushed in
some of the heavy pieces of iron running
through the ship, may have been driven
through her side, causing the loss of our
ship, and 1 fear hundreds of most valuable
lives. We have safely arrived at Quebec,
and I am left without a penny in the. world
to help myself, with but sincere gratitude to
those from whom I have received such un
bound kindness since I have been thrown
among them, from whom I am about to sep
arate to go to my home of sorrow. I learn
ed from the Doctor at Quarantine last eve-
Vcsta had reached St. Johns,
fome passengers from the Arc-
l not learn the particulars.
As soon as I can get on shore, I shall make
arrangements to leave for New York with
the least possible delay, and expect to take
the steamer for Montreal this P. M.
I am very respectfully,
Your obedient servant.
JAMES C. LUCE.
Nf.w Printing Press. Mr. Stephen Brown,
of Syracuse, has invented an ingenious press
for printing four different colors simultane-
lotisly. The Syracuse Journal says that the
i inking apparatus and the principles of the
machine are so arranged that four different
i colors can be printed at one impression, at
! the rate of about .five hundred impressions
an hour. And not only can different lines
be printed in various tints, but so perfect is
the invention, that one letter may be print
ed in two, three or four colors; or printed
in one color and rhaded by another, all with
the seme impression. It will be found in
v.aluable to printers, if it prove what it is
represented.
The Mexican consul at New York, has re
ceived a despatch from New Orleans, that
the so called revolution in Mexico is at an
end.
Five, ocean steamers have been lost during
the present year; the malancholy list being
as follows : The City of Glasgow, the Frank
lin, the Humboldt, the City of Philadelphia,
and the Arctic.
Horrible Murder near Lexinoton, K.
We were informed yesterday evening, by
passengers on the cars from Lexington, of a
tragedy that occurred in the county of Fay
ette, on Saturday night, which almost trans
cends belief, it is of so horrible a nature
Mr. Frazer, a farmer of the county.ha d been
absent with stock at New York for some
months, and on Saturday telegraphed his fam
ily that he would reach home that evening.
His neighbor and partner, Mr. Castleman,
awaited his arrival at the depot,and conveyed
him to his residence. Leaving the house.
Mr. C. was startled about an hour afterwards
by the report of a gun. He immediately
went to Frazer's, and there discovered him
dead, the house darkened, Mrs. F. above
stairs, Grigg, the overseer below, and h
daughter aged 11, with her mother. They
account for the death of the msn, by thr
acculciital discharge of a shot gun, which
he had in his hand, preparing to shoot a rat.
Suspicions were aroused, and the overseer
and Mrs. Frazer were both arrested.
The body of the deceased was terribly
bruised, a hole shot in his head, another
through his body, his throat very nearly cut.
and three ribs broken, effects not reasonably
caused by accident. There appears to be no
doubt in the minds of those advised of the
facts, as to the criminality of Mrs. Frazer
and Grigg. Previous to this time the neigh
bors had suspected improper intimacies be
tween the two, and it is supposed that it
was for the purpose of getting Frazer out of
the way, so as to rpnder a marriage feasible,
that the awful deed was accomplished.
There are various circumstances connected
with the affair which go to criminate the
supected parties. During Monday and yes
terday, they were undergoing a preliminary
trial. Lou. Courier, Oct. 4.
Missing Ships. The list of wrecks and
casualties at sea, registered at Lloyd's during
the present year, since the 1st of last Janu
ary, discloses a frightful- catalogue of ships
missing, and which arc now given up as lost.
having, as it is supposed, foundered with all
hands on board. In all, there appear to Iv
no fewer than forty-eight, which do not in
clude the losses of the Madagascar, and thi-ill-fated
City of Glasgow screw steamer,
with which upward of five hundred ami
eighty unhappy creatures were lost. Of the
forty-eight, a large number vere vessels bound
across the Atlantic, carrying many passen
gers. Among thein were the following:
The Waterloo, from Liverpool to New York;
the Ann, Capt. Atkinson, from Quebec for
Bristol the Leviathan, of and from New
York for Liverpool; the Joanna, from New
York for Dunkirk ; the American Lass, Capt.
Cousins, from St. John's, Newfoundland, lor
Oporto; the Emma Field, from Bath, U. S. ,
for Liverpool; the. Gipsey, Capt. Stephen
son, from St. John's for Greenock. Also,
the ship Arco, of New York; ihi Agnes
Hall, from Monte Video: Wilberforce, Syrit,
Urgent, Antilas, John Wickliffe, Governor
Briggs, William Thompson, Sarah, (Peter
son.) Ann Tift, Spectator, Red Rover, Rich
ard Watson, and the Abbe, of Bridgeport.
The remaining vessels were brigantines and
schooners. Strange to say, not a vestige of
any one of the unfortunate vessels has
turned up, not a fragment has been discov
ered.
Cleveland and Toledo Railroad. The
Norwalk Reflector says, of travel over the
southern line of this road :
The travel over the southern division
of the Cleveland and Toledo railroad
is immense. It has been increasing for
some time, until ths trains number U
and 12 first class cars. The night train
going west on the 5th contained 12 cars,
and there were at least 100 passengers who
could not get seats. The morning train ot
the 5th had 11 first class cars all full. At
Monroeille, a we learn, there were 00
passengers waiting to go west, and some fifty
at Clyde."
This is good news for stockholders, but it
is rather a backset to know that one-third of
the fare from Cleveland to Toledo has to It
paid to the Cleveland, Columbus and Cin
cinnati road for the use of its track fron
Grafton to the Lake. The Lake Shore divis
ion of the road, we believe, is just about pac ing
expenses. San. Register.