Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi Hurricane, Aug 1860 - More Disaster

The Daily Picayune
August 14, 1860

The Storm of Saturday Last
More Disasters at Sea

Our marine reporter hands us the following additional intelligence of disasters by the great gale of the 11th inst.:

The tow boat J. M. Whann, Capt. Whiting, arrived this morning with the ship Valencia, bark Lizzie Boggs and brig M. A. Stevens. From Capt. Dizer we learn that he left Bordeaux on the 6th of June last, with a large and selected cargo of wines, brandies, &c., and nine steerage passengers; that on the 10th inst., while in lat. 28o 30’, lon. 88o 6’, encountered a heavy gale from the south-east, which compelled him to heave to.

On the 11th, at 2 o’clock P. M., furled the lee clew of mail topsail, the wind blowing a hurricane; the bark lying under bare poles, the wind being so high that it was impossible for any sail to stand. At 3 o’clock P. M., struck sounding in about forty fathoms.

At 5 P.M. struck in 15 fathoms, the wind still increasing so much that we found it necessary to cut away all the masts of the bark in order to prevent her going ashore, which was done at 5:40 P. M. – the bark reeling and thumping on the spars which fell over her sides, causing her to leak badly.

At 6:30, P. M., let go both anchors and gave her all the chains on both and brought up the vessel. The waterway was split apart by the falling of the foremast. On Monday morning, the gale having subsided, got under way, the wind being from N. N. E. Set studdingsail on the stump of the foremast. At 10 A.M., the towboat Victoria took the bark in tow about 3 miles from Pass-a-l’Outre. The Lizzie Boggs is consigned to C. Cavaroc & Co., and now lies at post 29, in the Second District.
Capt Austin, of the ship Valencia, from Boston, reports having boarded, on the 12th inst., 25 miles west of Pass-a-l’Outre light, schooner Mary, of Pensacola, from this port, bound to Galveston with a cargo of corn, the captain and crew having deserted, leaving her in charge of the first mate and one seaman. The schooner was completely dismasted and entirely at the mercy of the waves. Capt Austin tried to persuade the men to come aboard of his vessel, but they would not leave the schooner.

Capt. Austin reports having signalized, on 9th inst., ship Henry Clark, Capt. Kopperholdt, hence, 80 miles N. W. of the Tortugas.

Capt. Butler, of the brig M. A. Stevens, from Havana, reports having lost fore and main topmast, and jib, during the gale last Saturday. She arrived here this morning, and was put at Algiers, for repairs.

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