Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-09-14

ton beneath There il hung, beaten and
swept BY roller after rollsr, and for minute.
making no progress, while tho breathlsss
spectators not two hundred feet distant
watched and waited the result. Edward
Spencer, before named, with rope about hil
waist, dashed into the waves, once, twice and
again, but he was washed back by the hugs
seas. It was critical moment; he followed
q retrcating roller, as it passed the two
two on the frail structure, the man with his
burden in his arms leaped into the water and
made laboriously toward his rescuer, not q
second too soon; an angry roller was at his
back; ifit reached him he was lost; the res.
cuer toiled nobly, they neared one another,
and just As their outstretched hands met, ali
was lost in mighty submerging wave-its
reAuence told with cheer that rang along
the shore that they were safe, and the
next instant eager hands were bearing two
limp exhausted burdens, the husband and
wife, up the steep bluffs.
Thus amid such scenes Of peril and daring,
hours passed, the gale still continuing. The
saved were taken at once to one or the other
Of the scattered Winetka homes, and never
shone humanity noblcr than that which was
ready and instant and incessant with every
thing that could relieve the sufferers.
| The shores were strewn with fragments Of
| the wreck Captain Wilson during the In.
terval offered, caused all the available por-
tons Of the upper works Of tho steamer cut
away, tkSt thus raft material might be album
dant when the steamer should 20 down.
but fof Tie high sea running, and a. it was,
could there have been some means Of rescue
outside the line Of surf, the wisdom of Cap
tain Wilson's order would doubtless have
saved his own brave life and those Of many
others now lost. ss.5 RI
All the survivors unite in according to
Captain Jack Wilson, the commander of tho
ill-fated steamer, praise for bravery and dar-
ing, such as so often sheds upon the brave
sailor laurels that time cannot dim. True to
his duty and his manliness, he was foremost
throughout in confronting danger, cool and
collected in it's encounter, instant and earnest
for the safety of his passengers. For long
time in that company of fifty on the raft he
held in his arms the young child Of lady
passenger, cheered his companions in peril,
and his last words as he nearcd the fatal line
Of surf, were Of encouragement and cheer.
!" Now boys looE out for the breakers ahead"
and Captain Wilson went down in the angry
waters, his last act being to save two chill
dren. Honor to the memory of the brave
His house in Coldwatcr, Michigan, is desolat-
ed and stripped of as brave and true heart
as eyer beat in sailors bosom.
Hon. Herbert Ingraham, one Of the lost,
was Member of the British Parliament and
publisher of the London Illustrated Neus.-
He was travelling in this country with his
son, aged sixteen years. Both crossed the
wide ocean in safety, to meet fearful fate.
Col. j. F. Lumsden, one Of the editors
and proprictors Of the New Orleans Picayune
with his wife, son sixteen wears old, two
young daughters, and two colorcd servants,
and w. Garth, Esq, of Paris, Kentucky,
with his wife, and two daughters, all the
above named constituting portion of the
late party of Southern excursionists, are all
among the lost
STATEMENT OF LIEUT.. HARsTurF.
Mr.. Hartsuff is Lieutenant in the q. S.
Army, and is stationed at Fort Mackinaw.
Twas on board the steamer Lady Egin
when she collided with the schooner Angus
tn, asleep in my berth. Immediately jump.
ed from my berth and saw the schooner
floating away. Did not think any serious
damage had been done at first, but soon dis
covered that the steamer was settling. i'm
mediately left my berth, which was in the
after cabin, and ran toward the pilot-house
where found Capt Wilson on the hurricane
deck. asked him if he thought there was
any danger, and he replied that he thought
she would float. He told me where there
were life prescrvers on the hurricane deck,
and i went and passed them down to the
in the cabin till they were about
exhausted. when took one myself. and wait
ed on the hurricane deck. While there, quite
q number came on the deck, only few of
whom were females, but how many came up,
could not say, as It was very dark. From
a quarter to half IN hour after she was struck,
she broke up, the hurricane deck floating of, |
and the hulk going to the bottom, with q
noise. As she broke, jumped
with my life preserver-a board six or eight
feet long and about one wide-into the water,
which was at this time only few feet below
US, and pulled with all my might to escape
from the mass Of the wreck. After the con-
fusion had somewhat subsidized, heard the |