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New_Serles. No. 80.

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The investigation into the circumstances at- tending this most distressing occurrence, enit=It!~ ed the attention of the Magistrates from Monday morning until Thursday evening. The deposi- tions of Messrs Lydiard, Wilkins, Pinco, Parker and Cameron. Mrs. Marshall, Wndham, the deck hand, Edmund Inglis, the eldest of the two boys, and Williatn McKinnon, the passenger who escaped iii the boat. were all taken under oath. They all corroborate to a greater or less degree, the testiniony of Mr. Lydiard, already published, as to tlie_gent-iral want of discipline, arid the insubordiuatioti aiuoiig the crcw—the ap- parent desire of C-tpllllt Belyea, to gel the pas- aoiigers, particularly the ladies, into the hosts- the stibsequent desertiou of the steamer by those in the boats, andthu possibility of having saved most, if not all, of those left behind, if the boats had remained b the wrec

Hsrtitv G. into [Mr. Pineo at the com- mencement of his evidence stated, that the cap- tain aztidhe had not started at the usual hour, on account of the weather, and that when the men ktiew of the delay they went ashore and got drunk, and could not be found when wanted, the boat having finally to leave with two hands short. He observed water on the cabin floor before the boat started, and on asking how it came there was told by one of the boys that it would disap- pear up soon as they got under WI_t'.] After Ill- ler rope was broken and fitted, baptain gave or- dcrs to put on all steam, and finding the ship would not steer, went to see What was the mat- ter. He returned shortly and said, that the fire- men had gotie away to the tiller rope, and let the fires out. All hatids were trying to get the fires aguiog again. I was standing with the mate assisting liiiu to keep the wheel steady, Mr. Turner came along and said, we are getting out of fuel. lleft the wheel and went round down stairs and found a number ofmen standing doing nothing. ltold them to smash up doors, plaiiks anything we could get hold on, to keep us agoing. All started to do so, and I went back to the wheel to assist the mate, I asked him what he thought we could do, and he said he did not know, and went down to see the captain, leaving me alone at the wheel. I told him I could not steer: he then called up it man to assist me. I heard him say to the captain something about dropping an- chor, or running for Piototi lslatid ; saw the cap- tain shirt his fiat and shove him oil‘, saying when he wanted his advice. he would ask hitn for it. Heard some person any the anchor was down. It was the impression that the ship was leaking. Some time alter Mr. Wilkins and inyaelfwetit to sea the state the boats were in, and whether they could be made use of, in case the vessel should sink. 'I‘lic boat on the weather side had no cars ; I took two from the other and put ittto her. We had it clear expecting the word would be passed up immediately that ship was sinking. — r. ' timer catne and asked what we were doing. We told him, and what we had done it for. He said we were wrcng—could not launch it that way, and that the lives of the rest were as precious as ours. I said I know that, and am doing this in hopes to save some of them ; but at his request we put the tackles on again. Then went below with Mr. ilkins-worked as long as I could stand it—two or three times when others were exhausted, and no person to relieve them, Itook their place, and two or three times lwent to men of the crew, and asked them to go and relieve those that were worn out at the buckets; some times they would do so, and some times they would not. At one time when I went on deck, I met the captain and ’l‘urncr, who said they were going to lower the lee boat to case that side of the vessel. ' ° ‘' I went to the stern ofthe vessel, to hail the bnat—could see rrtorethan two persons in it—l asked them to assist us and they made no reply. I told them it was disgraceful, for strong able bodied men to leave the passengers to do all the work. A short time after this the captain came from the main‘dock; I asked him why he did not go to work and make his men work. He said he did work, and emptied two or three buckets, but soon disappeared. I never heard him, Mr. ‘l‘urner or the mate use any exertion to get the men to work. We kept on bailing till the otherboat was lowered. I saw the captain when he got. down into the boat, he said to take command of them. He said I shall have to get in or they will not bring them up. When he was on deck he gave orders to the men in the boat which they did not obey. He ordered them to come up, so that he might ct in himself. He got in. and as he was going wn, another man jumped over the rail for the purpose of going in the boat with him; I grasped him by the throat. and told him not to attempt it on peril of hislifc. He asked why; ltold mm .1! he jumped over, the distance the boat than was, he would either be drowned or upset the boat, and that we were getting short of hands and not another man should leave the vessel till we all left together. ° ° ° lheard the captain say, " all get on the hurricane deck: went into the cabin and told the ladies they had better prepare themselves and go up. ' went on the upper deck and hailed the boats, and asked them to come alongside and take the ladies. They were both hanging to the rtern—-made no reply and no attempt to come near the vessel. 1 then again returned to work baling-shortly after- wards lteerd it said the boats were cut away, end that the captain had said he was only one man agsindt all the rest of the crew. Ibulievc when he went into the bout it was his intention to save us If he could, and this confirmed the in that beliol'."'° Wehvforward and lashed myself to stints pieces cfwosd ; saw a man go up to the beam'—hs was eharwards blown oil‘, and must have been drown lthuu went all, and with Parker made preparations to save ourselves. Supposing the hurricane duck would break tip, we selected a part of It, and held a rope between us, to help each other. When the ship broke up, the deck floated od‘, end we were on top of It.

All the others were together sad fell into the '

water. I verily believe the two Misses Dewolfu, are drowned. They had the clcthlnqupu they expected to go in the boatwlttt. A Doctor lcxettale, Its. Haley, and an Irish girl, sad

' W. Hammil. lsaw the steward go over with a plank, and almost instantly sink. If the people in the boats had remained and worked, all might have been saved.

It is unnecessary to publish any more of the testimon , as we believe the foregoing oonhins all the cts elicited in the enquiry. The onl

tor the final breaking up of the vessel was Mr.

Cameron. He an s: “ We were nearly all sitting that, except two or three who were a As a e went over,

the ladies went down, as I sup so. I and ano- ther man kept up, and got on or bottom, as it turned upwards. The others were all washed off, [took hold of the paddle box and since], as it was goin over, but was washed otfin a few minutes. ' water some Ini- nutes, when I took hold of a piece ofwood ;itwas so small it was of no use and I threw it away. I then got hold of what I thought was a rt of the hurricane deck, and got upon it. I ookcd round and saw three ladies, two of them cling- ing together, the third was much exhausted; the two who were together were trying to reach some pieces of the wreck. A man whom I suppose to be Thomas Hammil who was near me on it small iece said, he wanted to get on with me ; I tried to reach it but a sea came and parted us and I saw neither him nor the ladies again. I then saw Mr. Wilkins and others on it piece of the wreck for a little time, it might be ten minutes when we parted and I saw no ore of them. t twelve o'clock on Wednesday, the examina- of the witnesses having been com leted, urt adjourned until 2 o'clock’, on to or the purgoae of hearing the defence of isoners. aptain Belyea on beiu asked whether he had anything to state in his efence and being cautioned that, what he might say, mi ht be used a inst him in evidence, gave the following statement, which it may be ob- served, ugrecs with that voluntarily made by him on Saturday, except that it is more ample, and mentions severnl im rtant circumstances which at that time he di not refer to.

I, William Raymond Belyea, have been for five years master 0 is steamboat, and eleven years mate, and this is the first disaster that has ever he no to me. ° ° ' "

Left Chiirlottetown Friday morning at a lit- tle past 11 o'clock. The wind had been blowin hard ajl night, but had then moderated, sndI saw a air roe t of makin a good ssage. We got aloliig vii: comfortalsy, till wpcngot in the shoal water of!‘ Point Prim, where a sec. struck her, but I did not consider it did her any material damage I have been in a. great deal rougher weather with her before that time. Sh! tlwltyl vs satisfaction to eve person on board of er as a od sen boat at be time. After leaving Point im we went down the Gulf nicely with fair wind and tide, till, when within 9. mile of Go I Rock, I was standing alongside the wheel house and heard the mate say she would not steer, and he did not seem to know what was the matter with her, and on looking under the wheel house, I saw the wheel rope broke. The sbeerin gear is not all rope, but consists of chain on iron rod, all round till it comes to the knuckle ing up into the wheel house ; there is about a foot of mnnilla rope, round the barrel and all. We w at to work and fixed the rope very soon. As soon as we got it fixed so that it would work, we started ahead again, and I found she would not wear under steam, and with the jib hoisted. We hauled down the jib, and brought her head to wind, I told the engineer to give her full steam and we hoisted the jib oh’ the other tack, and let her round before the wind. She went along for helftt mile very nicely, and then, steering is little wild, she broached too again. She In there for a few minutes and the engines steppe altogether. I said to Mr. Pineo who was en in the wheel house with the mate, that I would go down and see what was the matter. I then went below to the engine room and walked a on the lnrboard gen way, Iwent to look into the tire bole to see w at was the matter. The second Engineer caught hold of me, and said, “ Captain what are you doing there, we can look after the water ourselves. I walked round shaft the engine and came up on the other side, and there I saw the first engineer standing in the door. The boiler pump was going at this time, I asked the engineer what was the matter; he said, “our water is low." I saw him try the lower guago cock, and it was dry. There are four guage cocks in the end of the boilller ;ftIlIO third is the workliug one, and is

nera u I. The out d au agii hour,’ before they, pt wEt.er highlhlditugh to tire up with safety wit out burning the boiler. All t is time the ship was drifting. and the water iucreusiu in her feet. I asked the 2nd engineer how t a water had t short. He said, “ she no slow she wont feed herself;’' but it is my belief if there had been a sulioient supply of water in the boiler, she would have lain two hours without its gettin toolow for them. The water got low in t e boilers by no ecting the feed. At this time they were but ing fore and aft. I had been wetchtng the steam, knowing that to be our only chance for safety. If they had a eufiicieut suppl of steam on, after the wheel4 ro was men ,. there would have been no di culty whatever in get- ting into Pictou in safety. We can throw by the bilge injection about 16 barrels of water a minute, and that would have kept us clcar._

The engineers at last said it wee no use think- ing of getting up steam, the water was _so high. About that tame the mate came and advised me to ran her ashore. She was drifttn in mid- channel ; she was then listing over, I is heard some one speak of letting go the anchor, I went forward, and found the space fbrward of the windlaas jammed full of shes . I cleared away the shccpe cltlie chain my . and 1003 to the catatop r to clear it away. By that time there wcruo rs, so, ,aadtlssmats,to sasist me. We letgo the anchor, gave llO!_ 30 fathoraa chain, and brought her head to wind.

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I still saw the water was ining; t cy were all w_orkin very inaufully at ttirne. r. McKen- sie on Mr ydiard were vc ,btiay seeming to take charge of the age an parking too. The continued on till water three feetin the Id, and she was listing very vy, and we concluded tolower down the boat the lower side; we lowered her dorm with her, eufloient to hold her. Mr T ner jum into her, and dropped her nature to keep ier clear of the guard as she drop sft.I made the end of the rope fast, and gay her a good It so she wood ride. Come‘, in between ‘ , and walked for and aft to see how things were, and went back again to see w the boat lny. Mr Turner called to me and d he wished he could get on board again. I hdnled the boat up under the stem, to enable h to do so; just as he was making the attest: to climb the ginter, the come along .other side om me, and, tho first .1 saw ofhim he was ing over the‘rail. He jumped own on Mr urncr’a head end knocked him wn in the bottom of the boat. Almost the ouient another wontover. they said it . James Web- atsr,I then let the painter fk fear more would t in. About an hour afterwards, sotne one spo e to me about putting the ladies in the boot, that the ladies should have the preference ; andl ' “ by all means.” I vv t into the door of the ladies, cabiu;thcrc were two or three of them there. One of them said “ captain what are we going to do,” I re lied “ well, ma’am, you will have to take the ts very shortly, and you had better prepare your- selves forit.” Went out again to look at the boat, and found an increase ofpersous there. By this time the vessel was gettipg very low, and they had left of bailin forvva . I am not certain whether, it was Ir Wilkins, or Mr Lydiard s ke to me about leaving the other boat. A ew minutes after I saw three ladies with shawls over their heads apparently ready to go : I thought two of them were the Misses Dewolfe. One of them said “ surely, captain, you will ive us the privileglt: of fietting in first ; replie , “yes, mu’am, a means,” and lined out to them where t y were to get on we —tbc water was too two of the men lower the and haul pointed out

rd at the low gun washing over it then. with me, and went immsdiatel boat, and to dro her round the a her up on the at or side, to the to the ladies, we lowered the t level with the raiI,stopped her there to ta bracket and the end of the painter, and then owered her to the we r. As nick as she touched the water, we let go the devil‘. falls, to let them nureeve; two more tneu jum d into her from the main deck, I)u:IWI‘I’:I‘tlm Mills and William McKenna were

to to" shove her nstern quick to save her rom ing‘ broken, and ran immediatel to the stern to see to the passing of her roun . Some one was holding the painter-—-I think Mr Lydinrd; I took it out of his hand. At the time the boat was going eaten: with the wind very fast; I braced niyself‘to be sure to bring her up, and notbe hauled ovcrboardzshe still continued going ofi ; I hauled the ro in and found it out o persons in the at had cut it. ' lprepared myself with a short rope tied to the flag atalf, to lower myself down with, and got tip on the talfrail with my feet hanging over, ready to jump. As soon ital saw the bow of the boat fairly under me. I let myself go, and landed in her, considerably bruised. By the time I recover- ed myself. the boat was slackt-d hack the whole length of her painter, and I immediately caught hold of it to haul her up. The mate cntight me by the arm, and held me, saying I should not do it. Some one from the steamer called out to me, are you going to come up with the boat; I an- swered, " yes, if 1 can” The mate resisted altogether; said it should not be done, that it was not safe-and told mq to go all, that, that was my place, I then made a second pttentpt to pull up. He had the rope in his hand at that time, all ready to let go. He turned round to Webster, and said, “ Webster. make It go aft. " Web- ster had the car shipped. IlIC,'lO€IIllI'lg half on it and said turning round, "captain go aft." then went to the atern—thought it was about time to go I said, " if you will not go along- side, we are riding very comfortably hero, we’ll hold on and see the last ofher; we may save some of them yet” At this time I cried out to the passengers in the steamrr to go on the hurri- cane deck, thinking it would float, and that we could pick them up. At that time I expected at every plunge to see the steamer go down. The mate than proposed to slip and run, to save our own lives was the first law of nature. I begged him for God's sake to hold on, saying " we will save the ladies yet; if they go on the hurricane deck. they will float. .' He said “ now we have plenty in this boat. there shall not another man come into her; we had better save our own lives, boys," speaking to the others, with answered "yes. ” e immediately said. "there slie’s gone, out oars. " e about afoul of‘ the ro through the ring, holding it in his hand. \NPcefell foul ofthe other host; as aooii as we got clear, I ordered them to pull up for the steamer, thinking that we might have accidentally got loose e mate gave the order to pull back- wards, keeping her head to the wind ; that order was obc ed. and not mine. After eotne time, they di begin to row up, but the engineers were no oaramen, and they said “ it is no wc’ll give it up.” I think if they had had the will, they would have found the way to have got there They then ato ped and let her drift awhile and kept paddliag t e cars to kec her head up. The mate had complete charge. hey turned towards shore, rowing pretty well before the wind till they opened Ptotou Light. I said. " for God's sake boys, don’t go down on that rocky lee shore, you’ll be dashed to pieces." he turned her in then, and made for the light. I then took hold of an oar, double backed the after car. and helped to row her In. As we were rowing along quietly to the shore. the mate said to me, " on may be devilish glad yo~ got on board at all, or we were just going to leave you, but we thought it a shame to leave you, anyway. ” We landed on the beach about one e'clock. and got to a house. The mats said again, " you may’ thank us for your life, nay'at he Janis." skater replied