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The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1860., [Electronic resource], Unfortunate and eventful voyage. (search)
e 23d of that month, while loading at the Island of Sombrero, did the misfortunes of her Captain commence. On that day his youthful wife, to whom he had been married only five months, died on the Island of the fever which had been prevalent at Guadalupe early in the autumn. On the 29th of October the vessel, with a crew of ten men all told, three of whom were doomed never more to see the land, left Sombrero for this port, all in excellent health. When out three or four days the mate was take Scarcely had the effects of this lamentable occurrence been fully realized when another, if anything more terrible, happened; for on the 17th, the next day precisely at the same hour, Louis Eugene de Voyeur, a youthful seaman, of Point Petre, Guadalupe, felt from the fore topsail yard while shaking the reef out of the sail, upon the main deck, breaking his neck. driving his head completely into his chest, and killing him instantly. The same evening this poor fellow, encased in canvas, was c