. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States : to which is appended accounts of recent shipwrecks, fires at sea, thrilling incidents, etc. . , from Mansanilla, stove part of herstern, and carried away bowsprit. Sloop Star filled and sunk. Brig Cyprus was considerably chafed. Schooner Clorinda lost her foremost 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, d
. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States : to which is appended accounts of recent shipwrecks, fires at sea, thrilling incidents, etc. . , from Mansanilla, stove part of herstern, and carried away bowsprit. Sloop Star filled and sunk. Brig Cyprus was considerably chafed. Schooner Clorinda lost her foremost 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 Pierwharf, both anchors ahead, stove boat, storehouses,^c. The schooner Catherine Nichols, from Philadephiafor Boston, went ashore on Sunday at 4 oclock, , on the S. W. side of Nahant, and three of thecrew were drowned, the captain and one man saved. GLOUCESTER. 337 DrSASTERS IN GLOUCESTER HARBOR, in the gale of December 15. 1839. We aro indebted to a friend in Gloucester, who haskindly furnished us with the materials tor the follow-ing account of the destruction of life and property inthat harbor, on Sunday, December Gloucester harbor during ihe slonn. Never have we witnessed so severe a storm, or oneso disastrous and melancholy in its results, as thatwhich set in on Sunday morning. Snow and raincame together, accompanied with a high wind fromthe south-east 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 before29 338 SHIPWRECKS AND OTHER DISASTERS. their 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 was about twenty^ andth
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