. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States . m Mansanilla, stove part of herstern, and carried away bowsprit. Sloop Star filled and sunk. Brig Cyprus was considerably chafed. Schooner Clorinda lost her foremast and bowsprit,filled and sunk. Sloop Hepzibah filled and sunk. Schooner Thomas, from Portland, dragged her an-chors in the stream, drove against a wharf, and startedseveral planks in her larboard quarter. Brig Banian, from Matanzas, dragged her anchorsin the stream, drove in to the Eastern Packet Pier GLOUCESTER. 367 wharf, both anchors stove boat, storeh
. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States . m Mansanilla, stove part of herstern, and carried away bowsprit. Sloop Star filled and sunk. Brig Cyprus was considerably chafed. Schooner Clorinda lost her foremast and bowsprit,filled and sunk. Sloop Hepzibah filled and sunk. Schooner Thomas, from Portland, dragged her an-chors in the stream, drove against a wharf, and startedseveral planks in her larboard quarter. Brig Banian, from Matanzas, dragged her anchorsin the stream, drove in to the Eastern Packet Pier GLOUCESTER. 367 wharf, both anchors stove boat, storehouses. The schooner Catherine Nichols, from Philadelphiafor Boston, went ashore on Sunday, at 4 oclock, P. M.,on the S. W. side of Nahant, and three of the crewwere drowned, the captain and one man saved. DISASTERS IN GLOUCESTER HARBOR,In the Gale of December 15,1839. We are indebted to a friend in Gloucester, who haskindly furnished us with the materials for the follow-ing account of the destruction of life and property inthat harbor, on Sunday, December Gloucester Harbor during the storm. Never have we witnessed so severe a storm, or oneso disastrous and melancholy in its results, as that 368 SHIPWRECKS AND OTHER DISASTERS. in on Sunday morning. Snow and ramcame together, accompanied with a high wind fromthe southeast, which soon increased to a gale almostunprecedented for violence, and which continuedwithout abatement the whole of that day and most ofMonday. Property and life have been swept away, toan almost unparalleled extent; and the scenes of suf-fering and desolation that have been brought beforetheir eyes, have involved a whole community in sor-row. On Sunday morning there was in our harbor aboutsixty sail of vessels, which had put in, in anticipationof a storm. Of this large fleet, all that could be seenat anchor on Monday morning were about twenty, andthey having every mast and spar cut away,—a soli-tary pole in each only standing to bear aloft a si
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