America. Terrible Steam-boat Disaster. (From the New York Tribune of November 27.)

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 200, 29 April 1848, Page 4

America. Terrible Steam-boat Disaster. (From the New York Tribune of November 27.)

27.) Pitsburgh, November 26. —0n Sunday morning last, about four o'clock, the propeller PhoenU, bound up to the lakes, when within serrnteen miles of Sheboygan was discovered to be on fire under the deck. It was found impossible to extinguish the flames. She had more than 200 passengers on board, thirty of whom took to small boats, and were picked up by the steamer De'aware, which soon hove in sight, but not in time to save those on board. The remainder were burned or drowned. Captain Street was sick in his state-room and was saved. 150 pussengers were emigrating Hollanders. Every attention was extended to the sufferers by th« captain and crew of the Delaware. The Ph«enix wag owned by Pease and Allen, Cleveland, and insuied for 15,000 dollars. (From the Nao York Tribune of November 29.) The following telegraphic despatch gives some more parfirulais in regard to the terrible disaster we have already announced. From the woiding of this dispatch, we are led to hope that the mortality hasnotbeen so great as at fust announced :—: — " Pitsburgh, November 26, 2 p.m —News has just reached heie, by way of the lakes, of a sad catastrophe which happened on Lake Michigan, I y which, nearly 200 human beings have been hurried into an untimely grave. " On Sunday morning last the propeller Phoenix, bound up the lake, was discovered to be on fire within 19 miles of Sheboygan. The fire broke out under the deck, and a fresh wind prevailing, spread with fearful rapidity. The utmost consternation prevailed among the passengers, aud it was impossible, amid the excitement which followed, to make the proj>er efforts to stay the flames and save the boat. •' There were over 200 passengers on board, and the scene was heart rending m the extreme. Mothcig crjin? in frantij madness for their childien —wives clinging to their husbands, and crying aloud for mercy from above. Some in desperation plunged into the lake ; others in their wild delirium rushed headlong into the flames. It was a harrowing spectacle, and humanity shudders at the recital of it. Captain btreet who was on a bed of sickness, was saved in one oi the boa's. " Those who so miraculously escaped in the boats, were shortly after picked up by the steamer Delaware, which hove in sight just in time to witness the dreadful fate of those on boaid the ill-itarred Plioonix, but too late to render any earthly assistance. Eveiy attention was paid to to the survivors by the offijeis aud crew of the Delaware." Gale on the Upper Lakes. Buffalo, Nov. 26 —There has been a heavy gale on the Upper Lakes. Four vessels, having on board 30,000 bushels of wheat, were driven as>bore and lost. The schooner Lawrence, loaded with 13,000 bushels of wheat, was sunk in the Detriot River.