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Tuk following is a corrected account of the terrible disaster to the steamer ‘‘City of Columbus” off Gay Head on Friday morning:—Thursday night the wind blew a hurricane from the northwest and a tre mendous sea wasrunning. At 3.45 o'clock on Friday morning with the wind blowing south, half east, the vessel struck on the

reef outside Devil’s Bridge buoy. She im- mediately filled and heeled over, the water breaking in and _ flooding the port side of the saloon.

Nearly all the passengers hurried to the deck, most of them wearing life preservers, but most of them were swept into the sea and perished at once. The boats were cleared away but swamped almost inmedi- ately. Seven passengers left the vessel on a life raft and were not afterward heard from. THE RESCUE.

About forty men took refuge in the rig- ging, where they remained until 10.30 o'clock a. m., on Friday, when a life boat put off from Gay Head and took away seven passengers, one of whom died soon after- ward. Shortly after noon on Friday an- other life boat put off to the distressed vessel, and meanwhile the revenue cutter ‘Dexter’ came along and sent off two boats. Twenty-one men were taken from the wreck and placed aboard the ‘‘Dexter,” four of whom died afterward. After ail the persons on the wreck had been taken off the ‘*Dexter” railed for New Bedford.

STORY OF THE CAPTAIN.

Following is Captain Wright's statement regarding the loss of the steamer ‘‘City of Columbus”: The ‘‘City of Columbus” left Boston at 3 p. m. on Thursday, carrying eighty passengers and a crew of forty-five At 3.45 a. m. on Friday, Gay Head Light, bearing south half east, vessel struck off the outside Devil's Bridge buoy. The wind was blowing a gale west by north. The vessel immediately filled and keeled over, the water breaking in and flooding the port side of the saloon. All of the passengers, excepting a few women and children, came on deck, nearly all wearing life- preservers. All of the boats were cleared away but were immediately swamped. A majority of the passengers were washed overboard. Seven passengers left the vessel on a raft, and about forty took to the rigging. At 10.30 o'clock, a. m., the Gay Head light boat put off and took seven persons. Another life boat put off between twelve and one o'clock.

Capt. Wright says, in addition to the fore- going, that he passed the cross rip light- ship at 12 o'clock and continued with a strong breeze. Stepped into my room to warm myself cs it was very cold. Every- thing was working well. 1 went below a ghort time and soon after heard the second mate, who was in the pilot house with the mate, sing out to the quartermaster to port. I jumped out of my room, thinking we had come across a vesse| bound down the Sound. I then cried out “hard a port,” net knew- ing but it was a vessel, and in the moon- light saw the buoy on the Devil's Bridge on the port, about two points forward of the beain, and about 300 yards distant.

SHE IMMEDIATELY STRUCK.

I ordered the engines reversed and she backed about twice her length. The steamer immediately stopped and I ordered the jib hoisted and endeavored to head her to the north, but she filled forward and listed over to port so that the plank-sheer was about four feet under water. Went out and told the passengers to keep cool and get on the life preservers. I next told the officers of the deck toget the boats ready. The steamer settled down aft and righted; it was blowing very bard and a heavy sea was running. We launched the port boat which was immediately capsized. The sea was breaking over the steamer’s deck and the stem being entirely under water we were forced to youp on top of the houses. We stayed there a while, but were finally obliged to take to the rigging. The mate, second mate, chief engineer and fourth engineer took tothe raft. I think the steamer struck a lone rock.

The captain is positive that he struck outside the buoy and in backing drifted in- side.

THE STEWARD, A. F. Pitman, said: I was in my berth when the vessel struck and was not awaken- ed by the shock. A general alarm was given, and I hurried into my clothes and left my stateroom. The greatest excite- ment prevailed and the women were rushing about the cabin in their night dresses. On reaching the deck | found the men joisting the ‘jib and in ahout twenty minutes the steamer listed. The houses were carried away almost immedietely, and the deck began to break up at seven o'clock, As the passengers came on deck they were swept overboard by scores, and the scene was horrible. After the vessel listed I made my way along the windward side up an inclined ylane and into the rigzing, were about forty persons, all men, hed taken refuge. There we ciung for life, with fingers benumbed and with floating corpses and debris at oar feet. I saw one man who was knocked into the sea when the top masthead broke. AN AWFUL NIGHT.

The officers of the cutter ‘‘Dexter” fur- niahed the following statement: At about 12.30 we sighted a vessel ashore on the reef at Gay Head. The wind was blowing a gale and a terrible sea was running. As we approached we saw the vessel was a steamer and the waves were over her. Wo anchored on her starboard quarter, 200 or 300 yards away. The cutter’s boat was at once lowered and manned by five men in charge of Lieut. Rhodes, who brought off seven men. A return trip was made and one man was brought to the vessel. Lieut, Kennedy was then despatched in the gig with four men and took offfour or five men. Meanwhile

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We found the men in the fore and main | top riguing. lt was impossible to run over | the rigging, as the boats would have been, poundcd to pi ces, so the men in the rigging were forced to jump into the sea and we caught them as they arose to the surface | aud pulled them into the boats. Some of | the men could not swim, but nearly every one in the rigging was saved. Eugene Me-| Garay jumped from the rigging and Lieut. | Rhodes pulled for him but the boat was

LIFTED FIFTEEN FEET on a crest and it was necessary to starboard | toavoid being swamped, The poor man} was not seen afterwards. At the same in- stant nearly McGarry’s brother was pulled into the boat. Captain Wright was among | the last to leave the ship. Two men who were frozen so stiff that they were unable to relinquish their hold upon the rigging were | at length the only persons remaining on | the steamer excepting the captain. Lieut. Rhodes asked him to jump, but he shouted “Save those men first. They are frozen,” was the lieutenant’s answer. The captain then jumped, and although he could not swim astroke he was rescued by Lieut. Kennedy. Lieut. Rhodes performed a heroic act, which elicits hearty commenda- tion. Two men being in the rigging unable to move from exhaustion the officer deter- mined to save the men at the

PERIL OF HIS LIFE. Returning tothe cutter he asked Captain Gabrielsen to give him a sixth man to steer, that he might swim to the wreck and rescue the unfortunate men. The captain granted the request and Lieut. Roath was placed in the boat, but on nearing the steamer it was found to be folly to attempt to go alongside. Lieut. Rhodes refused to abandon the at- tempt and samg out to the men in the life boat to take him tothe wreck. Lieut. Rhodes boarded the life boat and tying a rope about him waited until he was within about thirty feet of the vessel, when he sprang into the sea. He had nearly reach- ed the wreck when he was struck by a

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on the leg and sunk. He was pulled aboard the boat and taken to the cutter. His leg was found to be cut, but after changing his clothing, as the sea was smoother, he determined to make a last attempt. He again set out for the vessel and this time the men were reached. One was hanging with his feet and arms through the ratlines, Lieutenant Rhodes put a bowline about him, when he murmured, ‘For God’s sake, don’t touch me.” The man, who was afterwards found to be Mr. Richardson, was placed in the boat, but died before reaching the cutter. About $400 were found in a wallet in his pocket. The second man, who was the last person removed from the wreck, was in the rat- lines, and although breathirg when placed in the boat he also expired before reaching

the ‘‘Dexter.”’ THE FATAL REEF. i

The Devil’s Bridge, on which the steamer struck, is a dangerous, ragged reef, a large portion of which is bare at low water. It juts out from Gay Head promontory, about tive-eighths of a mile, and in southerly and westerly gales the sea breaks over it with great violence. The reef is not, however, considered dangerous, except’ in thick weather, because all sailing directions plain- ly warn mariners against it, and because there is plenty of room to passit. There is a black nun buoy on the northwestern extremity of the reef, in five fathoms of water. The ‘‘City of Columbus” had suc- cessfully passed the dangerous points which lie thick in the path of vessels traversing Vineyard Sound, but the last, and, from its location, the one least feared—proved her destruction. A minute or two more and she would have been in compara- t vely open ocean and free to shape an un- obstructed course for the Carolina coast.

Notes.

The ‘City of Columbus” was one of the finest vessels on the coast. She was built in 1878 by John Roach & Son at Chester, Penn., for the Ocean Steamship Company of New York, to run between that port and Savannah. She was purchased by the Boston and Savannah Steamship Company in September 1882, and has sinee been plying between Boston and Savannah, mak- ing fortnightly trips in alternation with her sister ship, the ‘‘Gaie City.” The ‘‘Col- umbus” was built of iron and thoroughly

equipped. She was rated Al for 100 years, and was of 1997 tons burden, She was 270 feet long and 39 feet {beam. She had

passenger accommodation for 84 first-class and 45 second-class. It issaid the steam- ship was insured at a lower rate than any vessel on the coast. She was valued at

$300,000 and insured for $250,000,

Captain 8. E. Wright, the commander of the :lil-{.ted vessel, is a seaman of large experience and excellent reputation. He has been in command of steamers of the Boston and Savannah line since 1869. He has been in charge of the ‘‘City of Colum- bus” since she was purchased by the line. He never met with an aceident of any kind until September last, when his vessel ran down the barque ‘‘Arthar C. Wade,” off the South Shore Light at Nantucket.

The Boston and Savannah Line has an excellent record. They have carried be- tween 150,000 and 200,000 passengers and no life was ever before lost. Messrs. F. W. Nickerson & &o., are the Boston Agents.

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The Baltimore Council.

THE PAPAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THE AMERICAN

courts to try cases of discipline, to report at length the rigging was cleared of the , on abuses arising from picnics, fairs and The vessel was sunk in about | other entertainments, to improve and main- four fathoms of water and the railing on the | tain Christian schools and to report on the bow wus the only portion of the huii visible. ' best methutl of preserving Church property: 4

EPISUOPATE,

Cardinal Bimeoni, in an interview at Rou.e, on the 16th inst. , praised the Ameri- can prelates for their piety and patriotism. Each Bishop, he said, received secret printed instructions as the result of the conference with the Pope, which would be conveyed to the plenary council at Balti- more, Md. The instroctions will then be debated and, perhaps, amended When adopted by the council they will be returned to Rome, and the Holy Sce will confirm them as the canon law for the United States. They provide among other things for a broader study of physical ; sciences, as demanded by tie exigencies of the times, and also a broader biblical ex- igesis, ecclesiastical history and canon law; also for the establishment of ecclesiastical |

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DAILY EXAMINER, JANUARY 22,

St. Peter’s Readings. |

Considering the number of counter at- tractions last night, St. Peter’s Readings were fairly well attended. Tho prog: amme commeuced with a very pleasing piano duet by Miss Gertrude and Miss Marion Rayden which, with a brilliant piece by Mr. Earle | and Mr. Watson, formed the instrumental | portion of the evening. The readers were | Mr. Hind, Mr. DesBrisay, Rev. G. W. | Hodgson, Miss Katie Wright and Miss fle'en Lawson. Mr. Hind read a short tale by Victor Hugo; Mr. Desbrisay 4 capital aceount of a bashful young man’s experience in Oharlottetown; Rev. Mr. Hodgson, a clipping from Tue Exa- miner, the “Queen of Connaught,” by Mrs. Lawson, of Halifax; Miss Wright a‘‘Christ- mas Chant” by Father Ryan; and Miss Lawson, a very humorous bit, ‘‘Biddy’s Tria's among the Yankees.’ All the pieces were in the best taste and very we!l render- ed. Mr. Maclean’s recitation was par- ticularly good, both in matter and manner, and was loudly epplauded. Miss Mce- Leod’s song, ‘‘Home they brought her warrior dead,” was exceedingly sweet and pretty; Mrs. Strickland’s touching voice is particularly euited to such ballads as Kingeley’s Three Fishers, which she sang beautifully. Mrs. Malcolm Macleod was at her very best last night, and it ia not often that we in Charlottetown hear any- thing equal to the way in which she sang, “Tt was a dream.” Mr. Harris, as usual, made a hit in his pathetic song ‘An ’Orri- ble Tale.” Taking it altogether the even- ing was exceedingly pleasant, not too long, and not too short.

In future the Readings will probably take place on Wednesday evenings, but due notice will be given. A children’s euter- tainment will be given on Wednesday of next week, by the children of the Band of Hope, which will end with an exhibition of Punch and Judy.

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J. H. Fletcher, Esq., will deliver his popular lecture ‘Common Sense,” in St. Patrick’s Hall, on Tuesday evening, January 29th.

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TRUTH— (Sonnet. )

DR. O'BRIEN, HALIFAX.

BY MOST REV ARCHBISHOP OF

“What is true youth?” was asked in days of ore; Aaa’ aany smiled, that one reputed wise, Should ask a question of such simple guise, Nor see that youth is when life’s all before,— Ere yet hath stood ajar our manhood’s door; When visions fair from childish thoughts arjse; When for the soul life has nor tears, nor sighs, But brightness such as that which Eden wore, And thus each Poet sang, each Scholar spoke; Unvaried comes the answer from each page; Our trembling hands an untouched chord awoke; We smiled not at the question of the sage;

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broke “True youth is purity of soul in age.”

Halifax, Dec. 16, 1883. —Catholic Herald, Boston.

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Tue winter fisheries in New Brunswick continue to pay well and support a great many persons, A correspondent of the Mon- treal Gazette writes : The fish are all forward- ed in a fresh state, and measures have been taken to prevent overstocking the markets, and thereby incurring losses. The canning of fish has been falling off, and the experience of last fall will cause it to fall off still more. Those who preserved their salmon, mackerel and bass, caught before the cold weather set in, by artificial freezing, and forwarded them to market fresh and frozen, made twice as much asthe men who resorted to canning. We shall hear next of lobsters being preserved in the freezers, instead of being canned, and feel sure that, if lobsters can be succeasfully treated in this way, the change would be a profitable one, Bass is the favorite of our winter fish, as the salmon is of the summer catch; and are now sold on the ice as goon as caught, at eleven cents a pound. The ship- pers send collectors around for them every morning, and box and send away all they get. The fishermen and the people in the vicinity consider the bass too dear to eat, and the hotel guest Jongs in vain fora taste of this fish. The dealers here say they cannot handle bass when they canpot afford to sell them: for less than fifteen cents, and go but a very small percentage of the bass catch is eaten in this province,

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THE comet is now observable with the naked eye in the western sky. About 6 p.m. is the best time to take observations. ik is not brilliant, though plainly discernable, and. unfortunately, does not last long enough to keep young couples, who love to study as- tronomy from the front parlor, an excuse for staying up late at night, — Ex.

‘COMMON SENSE.” J. H. FLETCHER, ESQ.,

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Admission 10 cts. Reserved Seats 15 cts.

Tickets for sale at Frazer & Reddia’s Drug Store and Apothcearies Hall.

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Lectare at 8 o'clock,

Ch’town, Jan, 23.—6in.

AID for old Rope, Canvas, Cast Iron,

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A large supply of extras and parts kept constantly on hand, Machines, all kinds, fully warranted. .

A first-class repair shop in connection where the repairing of all Sewing Machines is promptly attended to. :

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Accordeons, Coneertinas, Violins and other small musical instruments at

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Deaicrs in Pianos, Organs, and Sewing Machines.

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Jackets, Dolmans and Ulsters, Promenade Scarfs, Wool

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Scotch and Canadian Tweeds, Coloured and White Shirts,

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In connection with this Lecture some ex- periments will be performed, showing the character of the water in some of the city wells; also, from Spring Park and Winter River.

Admission 10 cents. at 8 o'clock.

Ch’town, Jan.

NOTICE S HEREBY GIVEN that the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Share- holdere of THE EXaMINFR PUBLISHING Company will be held at the office cf Tus ExaMINick tewspaper, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th of January, in t., at the hour of eight o'clock, in the evening.

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TO THE TRADE!

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()* Consignment and for sale very low, at my Auction Room, Queen Street. TEA—50 Half Chests Prime, APPLES—150 barrels No. | Choice. HERRING—50 barrels No 1, CODFISH—15 Quintals, GREY COTTONS—7 ba':s all prices, WRAPPING PAPER, Paper Bags, etc., very cheap. Trrms Casn. A, McNEILL,

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UST— Last Evening, either at the Skating 4 Rink, or between that place and Kip Square, a Ladies’ Gold F ar-Ring, with pear in centre. The finder will be rewarded by leaving the same at this office.

OAKDERS,—Mrs. Robert Rodd, bas re-

moved to the house of Mr (. Hearts, Euston Street, where she can accommodate numtcr of Boarders, on reasonable terwe.