THE CALAMITY AT SEA.--The foundering of the steamship Evening Star, while on her way from New York to New Orleans, was the most fearful disaster that has occurred on the ocean for many years. Three hundred and fifty lives are supposed to have been lost. Of the passengers, but three are, so far known to have been saved. One of these was Frank Gerard, until recently a member of Mr. Hooley's Minstrel troupe, and so far as we can learn, the only Brooklynite on board. It is charged that the vessel was known to be unseaworthy, and was reported as unsafe nearly a year ago, yet the owners kept her on the line reckless of the peril to which they exposed the lives of all on board. Judging from the meagre reports, the captain and crew acted like poltroons, taking to the boats and leaving the passengers, of whom more than half were women and children, to their fate.

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Unknown, "The Calamity at Sea," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, Wednesday, 10 October 1866, p. 2.