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DuRSNG or rnE PnGSn.-we published last
week teegraphio account Of the burning Of the
steam propeller Phnnix, on the lake. The tlrtc.
land PIaindealrr furnishes the following additional
particulars. Immediately after the fire was de.
covered, and after all possible means to cAi.ngush
il had failed the two small boats were lowered
and instantly filled with the few who escaped 10
tell the tale Of the sad disaster The clerk, en-.
gneef and one passenger were all that were taken
from the wafer alive. She had on bhhrd over
two hundred passengers besides her crow, and
but thirty Of the whole number were saved
among these we're the captain, clerk and FIVE Of
the crew.


The loss Of life is said 10 be the greatest tina,
ever occurred on the lakes As vet there i but
a very imperfect list Of the passengers lost


As stecrago passengers on the PhnniX was a
whole colony Of llolanders--said to have be "a Of
The better class OF Dutch-iuiclgent and well 10
do for worldly goods.


The cabin, we learn, was well filed with pas.
sengers, mostly Com Builalo--among them many
females, not one Of whom was saved. but all lost.


Al the frst alarm, about O'Clock IN the morn.
ing, il was the watch Of the % mate, who is among
the lost The iint mate says that on the instant
he was out No fire could be srcn-- be- could only
smell fire. lie went down into the hold bui could
discover no flame, yet he no sooner reach d the
deck again than the flames bnrst out ut once I the
upper works, They then spread like wild.fr,


Lowering aud manning the two small boats was
the work Of u moment Many Of those saved
swan 10 the boats after they lett the Phmuix, aud
all who cung to the boat had been left 10 ne1ora-
bic fate.


The clerks hands were badly burnt holding on
10 the wheel at her stern, lie le, himself down
when he could stay on her decks no longer The
mast at this time was full of men who had climbed
up 10 BE- little while longer out Of the reach OF
The deyouring flame. But the ascending tulo-
eating heat oyefcame them one by one, and 40
they dropped into the fire, tiIl at last the mast
burnt oiI aud fell over into the lake On it were
the only two persous who, besides the clerk and
those in the boats, were saved, Of all those hundreds
Of human beings that but a few hours before were
in unconscious sleep.