Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

BALTIMORE, SEPT. 6.
Loss of the Schooner Comfort.
Circumstantial account of the loss of the schooner Comfort, (Charleston packet) captain Charles Drummond, from Baltimore, received from a passenger taken off the wreck in lat. 33, 15, long. 76, 35, W. by the brig Experiment, John Bockins, master, arrived at the Lazaretto.
On Tuesday morning, August 19th the Comfort left Hampton Roads, with passengers, for Charleston. On Friday came on a violent gale from the N.E. the schooner lying to, head to the southward and eastward. At 4 P. M. the upset; at the same moment, most of the male passengers having run upon deck, were washed overboard, whilst others, and the crew were securing themselves to windward.
About 5 P. M. the main mast broke short off, and at 6 the fore mast was carried away, when she righted, but full of water, the sea making a continual breach over her, the gale still violent. During the night, the greater part of the crew and passengers were either washed overboard, or drowned lashed to different parts of the vessel; and on Saturday morning, the few survivors had the gloomy retrospect of but 6 remaining out of 25 souls, the original number on board. During the whole of Saturday and Sunday, we continued lashed to the windlass, bearing all the fatigues of hunger and thirst, and most frequently overwhelmed with the break of the sea; and at about 5 o'clock, one of the few remaining, (a black man, one of the crew) exhausted and faint with thirst, was washed overboard, and on Monday morning we were cheered with the prospect of descrying a vessel to windward, bearing down, which proved to be the Experiment, capt. John Bockins, to whose humanity and attention we feel it an incumbent duty to express our obligation we lay under, for his unremitted attention to whatever could, in any measure, ameliorate the misery of our situation.
List of passengers and crew drowned.
Captain Charles Drummond.
Mr. James Price, under captain D's charge, a son of Mr. Price, ship builder, at Baltimore—and 8 blacks, composing the crew.
Passengers.
Mr. Archibald Leslie, a resident of Demerara, having been some months past in Baltimore.
Mr. Mercier, a Catholic priest, from Charleston.
Mr. Donally, a pedlar, from Baltimore.
Mr. Goosly, from Hampton, Virginia.
Mrs. Cooper, wife of captain Cooper, lately resident at Hampton, removing to Augustine.
Miss Mary Cooper, sister to capt. Cooper, and
Miss Susannah, daughter of Mrs. Cooper.
Three servant maids, and three black children, and a boy, servant to Mr. Goolley.
SAVED,
Lieut. Bernard Henry, of the U. States navy.
John Todd, a young man working his passage to Charleston.
Scott, the cabin steward, and two other blacks, part of the crew.