The New Hampshire Gazette

Unexpected and Extraordinary Preservation

We have the pleasure to state, that, of the 119 passengers, who, on Monday night, were left on the wreck of the schr. Surprise, on Barnegat Shoals, seventy have been providentially preserved. Four of the number arrived at this port this morning, in the schooner Friendship, Capt. Leonard, from Shrewsbury. They state, that the whole of the number continued on the wreck until Wednesday night, when the wreck separated, and some floated ashore on the stern post, others on the counter, and others on different fragments of the vessel. At day-light on Thursday morning, the survivors assembled from the different parts of the shore to which they had been driven; and on ascertaining the number, it appeared that seventy had reached the land in safety, and forty-one had perished in the surf. Before they left the shore, they discovered and buried the bodies of fourteen of their unfortunate companions.

Among the persons who were saved are all the officers of the United States sloop of war Erie, together with the boatswain's wife. Mr. Corran the 2d officer of the schr. was one of the fourteen, whose bodies were washed ashore and buried on the beach,—N. Y. Com. Adv.