The Coburn Disaster

A dispatch from Kincardine, Ontario, states that portions of the wreck and cargo of the R. G. Coburn have been coming ashore there for two days past, and that on Friday night a boat of the propeller was drifted upon the beach containing two dead bodies, one that of a mulatto, and the other that of a young man, dressed in a grey suit of clothes.

This but confirms what was before believed, that the two boats picked up by the barks Robert Gaskin and Zack Chandler contained all that survived from the ill-fated propeller. Probably the last has now been heard of them. More bodies may be washed ashore; or, perhaps, the sea may never give up the remaining dead. The disaster will be remembered as the most melancholy which has occurred on the lakes since the loss of the Morning Star.