biglam/hmd_newspapers huggingface dataset:
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-02-14

ACCIDENT ON THE NILE.

Mr. Edwin Arnold, C.S,I„ with his wife, daughter,
and son, are in Cairo, and has had a remarkable
escape from a hurricane on the Nile, in which their
dahabieh was 'capsized (says the Egyptian Gazette,
Which also gives the following • particulars). The
vessel was struck by the storm near Girgeh, under a
lofty cliff, and overturned, throwing all the nineteen
souls on board into the rapid stream. Mr. Arnold
supported his wife till she could be drawn up on the
wreck ; his son was shut in by the water, but sprang
clear, and swimming , well reached the keel; Miss
Arnold a young lady of 18 years, whom her father
While swimming believed to be too surely lost, as she
'was iin her berth when the vessel capsized, escaped
by wonderful presence of mind through her cabin
Window, and was found by her father, to his unspeak-
able delight, sitting on the wreck in her night dress
only, The ship seemed sinking, and the small heat
Was fast; it took Mr. Arnold many minutes of effort
With a little penknife to sever the rope attaching it.
When this was done, Mr. Arnold, controlling his
Arabs, who would have crowded into her, put three
strong rowers on board, the two ladies, two Nubian
boys, and an invalid sailor, and sent the felucca off,
remaining himself and his son, who behaved very
firmly, with the rest of the crew. The wreck thus
lightened remained afloat till the felucca came back,
and all were eventually taken off alive, exeept
the cook Achmet, who had first fallen overboard, and
Whom Mr. Arnold made a desperate effort to save just
before he was himself hurled into the river. The
English party are well and safe at the Hotel du Nil,
and havglateeeived the warmest congratulations on all
sides. Milli gallon are helpless in peril. Many lives
Must probably have been lost but for the firm conduct
of the English gentlemen and the quiet courage of the
two ladies, who were afterwards obliged to walk six
miles over the mountain barefooted and half•dressed.

At a town meeting held at the Bristol Guildhall on
Saturday, for the relief of the unemployed, several clergymen
Stated that the distress and destitution in that city were
as greater than last winter. Many hundreds of hands in
oe, clothing, and building trades could not get work.
l'u: Person said that he had never before seen people so close
tore tration. In one house he had found a child, in Its ex-
ull:4,ll4oor, eating the paper off the wall. A relief nom-
were
milvasbionbeestd.ablished and several hundreds of pounds