LABORS OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE. 97 



Great Ontario Storm of llth November, 1835. 



Extract of a letter dated Henderson, P. O., Jefferson Co., Nov. 17. 



108. The blow last week produced terrible effects on Lake 

 Ontario. It looked like a boiling pot, as white as a sheet. 

 The shore is strewed with broken pieces of vessels ; hands 

 and passengers of more than one vessel are known to have 

 been lost. Several men from Henderson have been drown- 

 ed. There was none escaped to tell the news. 



From the Kingston (Upper Canada) Chronicle. 



On Tuesday morning, the 10th, the steamboat Cobourg left 

 Toronto on her trip downward; the weather being then quite 

 moderate, she reached Cobourg on the evening of the same 

 day; the weather still continuing the same, she left Cobourg 

 at ten o'clock, but had hardly gone ten miles, when a heavy 

 gale from the north east began to blow, and continued to in- 

 crease till three o'clock the next morning. The wind then 

 suddenly chopped round and blew a perfect hurricane from 

 the north west. At four o'clock saw a schooner on her 

 beam ends, about half a mile from the Ducks, floating, it 

 was supposed, in fifteen fathoms water. Two men were 

 seen clinging to the wreck ; one of the sufferers had a stick 

 in his hand, at the top of which was attached a handker- 

 chief, which he waved as a signal of distress. The state of 

 the weather, however, was such that the Cobourg could 

 render no assistance. The sea at this time was washing 

 over the decks of the Cobourg in every direction, and 

 breaking into the cabin through the deck windows. Capt. 

 Paynter was therefore reluctantly obliged to leave the un- 

 fortunates to their fate. The schooner, from the appear- 

 ance of the hull, was supposed to be the Ontario, belonging 

 to Oswego. A short time afterward saw another schooner 

 about two miles from the Ducks, also afloat on her beam 

 ends, but no appearance of any living creature was seen 



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