Show DISASTER A Vessel Gone Down New York 3 Heralda St Augu tins Fla There Is very little doubt that the steamer City of Vera Cruz of the Mexican lino which sailed from New York on the 25th of August for Havana and Vera Cruz went down in the recent hurricane wtikh his already strewn our cout with wreck Only the faintest hopes ro min that any of her passenger have survived This terrible discovery was made hee yesterday when portIon of ill mail carried by the Illfated vessel were washed ashore some miles south of this city One mail bag contained letter for Cuba and Mexico which had bo posted in Paris France on August IStl ad anoth r lot was found with the envelop en-velop bearing the postmark Now York August 25th TnU at once indicated that the lost vessel was a mail steamer bound for southern poru and the lur miso was that it must have been tho City I of Vera Cruz as she left New York on the day last narmd The Vera Cruz waff a staunch ship and Iho must have been struck by a burn cane and probably foundered on Saturday Satur-day night or Sunday nvrning The bllowing u a lilt of tho passengers who hihd in the Vera Cruz Rafael Ariup Airs R Arruc Walter Betchic Adolfo Mosque Miss E Burns Miss A GUrlr Goo W Cole Miss Sado Foy General por jes E Fuenks Mr S A Maroin Mff S A Marcin 11 Slashof John ledmill John Sam bay Felipe Her sndez Miss Hernandez E Liolefield Coderignez A Martinez K A Owen I J Ravensburg Mbs J Rivensburjr Miis T Rubio S P Silva 1 S ilaur Alexander Wallengc M Wolth Mrs M Weleh Mr A Alexander agent says he has not heard any news of the accident to the steamer City of Vera Cruz and that the vessel was considered capable of weathering any storm She was loaded lightly and commanded by Captain Van Sice an expert seaman and had a crew of fifty picked men One mail bag contained letters for Cuba and Mexico which had been ported in Paris Fraece August 13th and another an-other lot was found with envelope bearing bear-ing tho postmark of New York August 25th This alone indicated that tbe lost vessel was a mail steamer bound for southern ports and the surmise was that it must have been tho City of Vera Cruz as she left New York on the day last named Closer examination showed several bills of ladirg ofthe steamer Vera Cruz Every hour brings news of some more etartl ng discoveries in regard to the supposed wreck The body of a lady and n little chid have been found onshore on-shore cast up by the waves They were buried by a party of wreckers on the cacds near tho place whore fou d Thi makes already five bodias recovered the three others bemg the corpes of unknown un-known person Two from their dre Faro F-aro thought to ba passengers and the other evidently a sailor abe chore for over forty miles is strewn with the cargo of the steamer The trunk found was maked Hernandez Two sailing vessels in addition to the brig Eddy have come ashore since tho gala near hate Tho signs are that tho hurricane has been very fatal to shipping The City of Vera Cruz was a wooden vessel 1874 tons register built at Green Point Long Island in 1874 for Alexander l tons line between thia city Havana and Mexico in which trade she was employed em-ployed She was a screw vessel 295 feet long 37 fest beam and 126 feet deep and hd a draught of 19 feet of water the had three decks brig rigged and her motive power consisted of two compound cylinder engines Her propeller was 15 feet six > inches diamecr with a pitch of 23 fiio iron stripe fuur inches wide and five ghths of an inch in thickness doubled and diagonally laid strengthened tho vessel very materially She had ac comodatioas for 1100 passengers and was finely furnished It It i suggested tl at in the event of an accident to the City of Vera Cruz or if the steamer became unmanageable in the storm tho crew and passengers might have taken tn the boats bunging the mail with them and have afterwards thrown tho mais overboard to lighted i Tho postoffico authorities hero say the mil washed ashore postmarked New York August 25 std lari > August I indicated that tho m arrived hereby here-by the Batavia from Liverpool and < < was dispatched by the City of Vera Cruz At the office of the Alexander line up to information to coon today no further us the los of the City of Vera Cruz hat been received The owners do not believe the steamer lot but think she encountered a hurricane during which the mail end baggage went overboard They pro noaiice her one of the strongest steamer in the world She was in the dry dock previous to the last trip Abe vessel was worth 200000 insured in London and America Many relatives and friends of the passengers and crew are atthe office awaiting information Capt F Harris who commanded tho steamer en tho previous pre-vious voyage is on board The chief engineer is named Miller and the purser pur-ser Burke Among tbe passengers of tbo Vera Cruz was Major General Alfred T A Torbert who distinguished himself during dur-ing tho rebellion as a cnvaly commander General Torbert was attached to tbe army of the west and a strong friend of General Grant |