Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-10-04

DAD 4NClDENTS OF TIE BURNING STEAMER
AUsTRIA.-The following are related by Mr.
Palicrusa, Turk, who was on board
''As the flames increased, the poor misera-
BILE creatures on the bowsprit jumped into the
water as their clothes caught on fite-drop.
ping into the water, "like drops of rain in a
heavy shower" One woman, with two daugh-
tiers, kissed them, and then putting her arms
around them, all three jumped into the wa
ter. An English lady, who came on board at
Southampton, with her husband, had three
children with her, and a babe in her arms
The husband had jumped over, and as the
flames grew hotter and burned more fiercely,
she took her little girl, kissed her. aud threw
her into the water. She then. took the boy, a
fair, healthy little fellow, EN- braced him, gave
him her last kiss, and threw him in. He
struck on his back and struggled very hard,
rising to the surface three separate times, call
ing out "mamma" each time, in the most pit.
eous tones then sunk to rise no more. The
poor woman then casped her baby to her
breast, and jumped in with it, kissing it re-
peatedly as they sank to the bottom.
A young man who was in the second cabin,
and who said he was going to California,
where he had brother, had his sister with
him, girl sixteen or seventeen years of age.
In order to save her from the fire he fastened
rope around her body and, making one end
fast to the deck, let her down over The side of
the vessel He then put another around his
own body aud let himself down but the rome
was not well fastened and as he jumped over
it slipped from under his aims and caught
him around the throat As he struck the
water the waves dashed him up against the
vessels side. and falling back again he was
quickly choked to death his sister shreking
"help help will nobody help my brother?"
Mr.. Palerusa says when he left the vessel
the poor girl was hanging there, screaming
and crying, with the waves dashing the dead
body OF her brother against her every few mo.
ments. An Englishman, about fifty years of
age, who came on board at Southampton with
his wife, crawIed with her out on the bow
spirit as far as they could, and as the flames
approached, they casped their arms around
each other with one last kiss, jumped into the
water and sank Immediately. And so broth
ers and sisters, fathers and sons, mothers and
daughters, embracing each other, jumped into
the waves"
Who that reads, says the Bath Times, the
awful fate Of the Austria, and contrasts the
disorder, the confusion, and loss of nearly ey-
cry lady and child on board, with the perfect
calmness, order and salvation of every child
on board the ill iated Central America, can
fail to feel degree of pride to think he be-
longs to the same race and to the same coun-
try which the immortal Herndon so highly
honored in the last trying scene of his lifei
A DOUBLE ELoPEMENr.-M Lloyd, rich
and respectable farmer of Wicklife, near
Cleveland, Ohio, has two daughters, Mary
and Laura. Mary is twenty years old, and
Laura only sixteen. They are "spendid-
locking girls also swell educated" accord
ing to the common meaning OF the term, hav-
ing "enjoyed superior advantages" Mr..
Lloyd, to carry on his four hundred and fifty
acres of land, had employed two brothers,
named Watson Lewis and Chauncey Lewis
That there might be nothing wanting to make
strong and romantic contrast these Lewis
brothers are represented as "uncouth, unedu.
Gated, oyeIgrown specimens of humanity,
who can neither read nor write" One of
them earned $40 month and the other Sl3
Uneducated as they were, however, thew
seemed to have learned tine language of love;
uncouth as they were, their charms so wrought
upon the Lloyd girls that an elopement took
place. AT eleven o'clock one night a moon.
light night, Of course, Tor moonlight hours are
best for love, the parties all eloped and went
to Cleveland, where they stopped at the Com.
mercial House, Justice was called in, and
Watson Lewis and Mary Lloyd were married.
Chauncey and Laura preferred to wait till
morning. but in the morning came father
Lloyd, and took away his daughter, and had
her lover sent 10 the station house. The next
morning Chauncey was requested to "seoot."
which he did, promising never to return,
Watson remains in possession Of his bride.
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