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Title: Volume 049-2 - April 1995 Collection Type: Books and Periodicals Collection Name: Nevada County Historical Society Bulletins # of Pages: 8 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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A son of Rev. Mr. Brierly, of this place, an engineer on the steamer, was saved. Mr. J. C. Jonghaus, who was saved, is one of the firm of C. H. Meyer & Co., of Nevada, but he resides at Sacramento. Mr. A. Chauvanne [sic], of the saved, resides at Grass Valley. There were doubtless other citizens of Nevada county among the passengers, but we have not been able to learn their names. [August 9] LOST PASSENGERS.—We have obtained some additional particulars relative to the passengers lost by the burning of the Golden Gate, who were from Nevada county. Mr. E. H. Fulton, who formerly resided at Moore’s Flat, was lost with three of his children, and one of the children was saved. Mr. A. Bremmer, whose name is reported among the lost, was also from Moore’s Flat. He was a partner in the Illinois Claims, but lately sold out his interest for $4,500, and started for the East with his money. He was intending when he left, to carry about $1,200 on his person, and get a check for the remainder. Mr. Ramsell, whose name in the list of lost is erroneously spelled “Ramsey,” carried about $800 or $1,000 in his belt. Mrs. S. Babcock and infant, also from Moore’s Flat, are among the lost. The infant which she was taking East, was the child of her brother-in-law, Mr. O. D. Babcock, the Constable of Eureka township. It is possible some of these parties may have been on the boat containing twentytwo persons, who missed the harbor, but it was thought would be saved. [August 12] STEAMSHIP DISASTERS.—The burning of the Golden Gate is the third steamship disaster on this coast, resulting in great loss of life. By the burning of the Independence, at Margarita Island, Lower California, on the 16th of February, 1853, nearly 200 lives were lost. By the wreck of the Yankee Blade, on the coast of Santa Barbara, in the fall of 1854, 415 persons were lost. The number on board the Golden Gate, at the time of the late disaster, it is now thought was 357, of whom 219 were lost. [August 12] A DOOMED FAMILY.—The Fulton family, referred to below by the Virginia City Enterprise, formerly resided at Moore’s Flat, in this county, but removed last summer, or fall, to Washoe. One of the children, George, aged seven years, was saved. The Enterprise says: Last winter there resided in this city a family by the name of Fulton, consisting of six members—father, mother and four boys. During the latter part of the winter the mother was taken sick and died. Two weeks later, the father died. The uncle of the children came to take the children to the Atlantic States, and they took passage on the steamer Golden Gate. The name of the uncle and three of the children appears among the lost. 12 [August 14] ANOTHER.—Mr. M. Oldon, one of the lost passengers of the Golden Gate, we are informed was an old resident of Nevada county. He has lived at Jefferson for the past six years or more, and left there for the East. He was a Nor(™ wegian by birth. He had between $2,000 [and] $3,000, which he carried in a belt. [August 19] THE “MISSING BOAT.”—The Orizaba arrived at San Francisco on Sunday moming, and brings the gratifying intelligence that the twenty-three persons who were on the “missing boat” of the Golden Gate, are saved. Among them were Amos Clark, and E. T. Clark, of North San Juan, and S. P. Storm, formerly a resident of this county. The boat drifted ninety miles south of Manzanillo, when she was beached, and the passengers returned to that port by land, suffering great hardships. The Mexican people on the coast, with whom they came in contact, treated them with great hospitality, and at Colima they were furnished with horses to ride to Manzanillo. San Francisco (4 NEVADA ° CALIFORNIA Salt Lake City UTAH Los Angeles San Diego wy 4 Santa Fe 2 ARIZONA ° = NEW MEXICO rot e Tucgon & % 3 MEXICO Mazatlan Pacific Ocean Puerto Vallarta Site of the va eo. Golden Gate Mexico City Disaster a Acapulc