. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States : to which is appended accounts of recent shipwrecks, fires at sea, thrilling incidents, etc. . hor,thinking the storm might abate by morning. Someprotested against this and insisted upon running onshore at once, but the captain would not, as hethought vs^e should all perish in the dark. He there-fore steered in towards it, and g,fter running twohours dropped two anchors which held the boat. Onweighing these in the morning we foundthat thelargest one had broken short off, and our safety duringthe night had depended on a small, a
. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States : to which is appended accounts of recent shipwrecks, fires at sea, thrilling incidents, etc. . hor,thinking the storm might abate by morning. Someprotested against this and insisted upon running onshore at once, but the captain would not, as hethought vs^e should all perish in the dark. He there-fore steered in towards it, and g,fter running twohours dropped two anchors which held the boat. Onweighing these in the morning we foundthat thelargest one had broken short off, and our safety duringthe night had depended on a small, and, as we shouldhave thought, very insutficient one. Thus a succes-sion of merciful providences attended us, which I shallrejoice to recount when we meet. Our captain called a consultation of the passengerson third clay morning, in which nearly all agreed thatwe should run into Beaufort, to refit. As he did notknow the channel, it was necessary to sound contin-ually ; but after a few hours a pilot came off to us andsteered us in handsomely. After refitting at Beaufort they proceeded on theirvoyage and arrived in Charleston on fifth day.—lOlhMonth, THE PULASKI. 47 LOSS OF THE STEAM PACKET PULASKI, which exploded and sunk on the coast of NorthCarolina^ on her passage from Charlestonto Baltimore, June 14, 1838, hy whichdisastrous event nearly one hun-dred persons perished. The following Narrative is from information de-rived from J. H. Couper, Esq. of Glynn Co., Geor-gia, andMaj. James P. Heath of Baltimore, who wereamong the sm-vivers. The steam packet Pulaski, Capt. Dubois, sailedfrom Savannah, on Wednesday, the 13th of June,having on board about 90 passengers. She arrivedat Charleston the same afternoon, and sailed the nextmorning with 65 additional passengers. In the after-noon the wind was fresh from the east and produceda heavy sea, which retarded her progress and requiteda full pressure of steam. At half past 10, the windcontinued fresh with a clear starlight, and
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