Dreadful shipwreck on Islay Coast.
DREADFUL SHIPWRECK ON THE COAST OF ISLAY. Two hundred and forty Lives Lost: - We received this morning, through the kind attention of Captain Stewart, of the Thetis, a copy of the Glasgow Herald of yesterday morning, containing a circumstantial account of the loss of the Exmouth, Booth, which left Londonderry on Sunday se'n [seven?] night bound for Quebec, with emigrants. The news reached Glasgow, on Saturday, as stated in our shipping intelligence, by three seamen, by the Modern Athens steamer, being the only survivors from the wreck. The description given of the disaster is most afflicting. They say the ship was ground and crunched so dreadfully, that she must have gone to pieces immediately. There were three ladies on board, cabin passengers. The great mass of the emigrants must have perished in their berths, as the rocks rapidly thumped the bottom out of the vessel. Up to Thursday evening, twenty bodies had been washed ashore at Islay, but the total number lost cannot be calculated at fewer than two hundred and forty souls. - Northern Whig.Close