Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-10-16
YORKVILLF1 S. O.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1856.

| from the boat she screamed to the woman
in the boat to save it, and had the satisfac-
tion of seeing her reach out, and grasp it,
and draw it into the boat.
She then directed her efforts to the FIVE
children about her. She pushed the oldest
boy Of twelve years into the water, with di-
rections to swim after the small boat and
cling to it if they would not take him in
She thinks he did actually reach it, but cam
not be certain. She then put her oldest
child, a girl of fourteen, into the water, in
hopes she could cling to something. She
has heard since arriving here that girl of
that age was recucd, and thinks may be it
was this one. She then had three small
children remaining Her husband got into
the water, and she passed them down to
him, and he placed them on one of the cap
sized boats floating near. She then got down
by a rope. On reaching the water she found
the waves had washed two of the children
off the small boat. She managed to catch
them both with one arm, and hold them up,
sill clinging to the rope with the other hand,
and maintaining her hold in the midst of all
the desperate struggles around her. At last
the rope burned off above, and she sank
down, down, down, with others who had
been cinging to the same rope. When she
came up again, she had lost one child. She
managed to throw her d;scnsaged arm over
stick and hang on to it with the child in
the other.
She then looked for the child she had
lost, but although many heads were around
her, and some of them childrens heads,
they We're all so begrmmed with the oil,
and ashes and SCOT on the surface Of the wa
ter, that she could not distinguish their
features, and they sunk one after another,
without her being able to recognize her
OWN. She then directed all her efforts to
save the one in her arms, and she feels COLI
Gdcnt she could have done 50, but some
man-she thinks he was al old man-pul-
led her arm off from the stick which suppor-
ted her. She regained her hold, and her
hand was again pulled off and herself push
ed away by the man. Then she sunk down,
down, down again. She struggled to rise,
aud finally did rise, but the last child was
gone, though she thought, unit! she reach
ed the surface and saw to the contrary, that
she had it still in her arms.
She was then alone on the water without
support. She had foated some distance
away from the steamer, but she saw her
husband upon the capsized boat, holding
one of the children. That sight inspired
her with fresh courage. Alas !. she knew
not at that moment that the little one he
held in his arms was already lifcless, but it
was even so. At that instant plank struck
her breast; she threw her arms around it
and tried to reach her husband, but could
not propel herself in the water. She felt
her strength now rapidly failing. She was
entirely alone, she saw the schooner and the
Traveller, but saw also that they were far,
far away she knew she could not hold on
to her boy until they came up, but she re-
membered having heard that persons in
drowning always shut their teeth firm. She
therefore seized her dress at the bottom in
front, brought it up around the plank, and
put it between her teeth, so that it held the
plank fast across her breast She found it
would support her thus, and settled calmly
back to await the result. She remembered
nothing more. She was picked up by the
Traveller, and when she was restored to
consciousness, had the happiness of finding
her husband at her side. But her children,
where were they :?