New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-09-19
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1860.

self from sinking in the water and drowning. Her
husband encumbercd with the other children, as
sisted her all he could, and thus they reached the
house they had started for
The owner of the house, had he been there, |
would have done everything for them. But, unfor-
tunately, he was absent and brutal Frenchman, |
who had charge, refused to receive them, and or
dered them to pass on. The house of poor car |
penter was half mile farther The poor
oysternan now the only prop Of the suffering
party, waded slowly on, carrying child support
ing his wife, who still held on to her youngest and
the other children holding to both In this manner
they at last reached the house Of the caarpenter.
who, though very poor, had eS.rt bigger than
his house, and welcomed AMI sheltered the unhap-
py wanderers =...
Poor Mrs. Spangenberg's critical period came
| on before she could be lifted out of the water.
| She had hardly been put to bed when she gave
! birth to dead child-drowned perhaps-and at
the last accounts was herself hardly expected to
live. Can any one imagine greater distress to
| woman than ths2 Oystermen generally have
| boats. Spangenberg had to wade with his family,
because the gale blew his boat away before it
blew his house down.
The lighthouse keeper on Bound Island barely
saved his family from destruction He carried his
/ wife and children from their residence to the light
house, Ga distance of hundred yards or more)
before the water was knee-deep. Returning to
secure all the food and clothing possible he had to
abandon the attempt in order to save his own
life: for the water rose seven feet in less than
twenty minutes. They remained cooped up in the
lighthouse till the storm was over, and before
succor came they had passed thirty.six hours
without mouthful to eat or q drop of water to
drink, .-|
Capt. Johnny Clemens, the well-known yacht
man, and Mr.. Hodge, Of Mobile, were out in fine
new schooner, half yacht and half oyster boat
built at an expense of $l700, and Just launched al
Back Bay, behind Biloxi. When the gale strGch
Them they cast anchor some ten miles from Pasca
goula. The gale increasing in fury, they cut the
anchor loose, went several miles before the wind
and finally capsiZed in the surf and went ashore
With their crew they clung to the boat, as their
greatest safety. The gale supplied the water to
float and the wind to wait the wrecked schooner
inland among the trees to distance Of over mile
from the shore; Hodge, Clemens, and the crew
clinging to and guiding the boat as it went.
= One Of the sailors in wading cut his foot badly
l Mr. Ho5ga ira,, l.is handkerchief from his pocke
to bind up the wound and in so doing jerked GU
his pocket-boolz containing $780, which fell in thu
water and was lost. He let the money go, and at
tended only to his sailors foot All hands had al
awful time of it, and had they not been regula
sea,dogs, they would have drowned through ex
laustion and despair.
They were finally rescued by the crew of an
other boat that heard Of their disaster and went il
search of them. When rescued, both Hodge ant
Clemens were half insensible and suffering from
cramps. They were taken to the nearest conve
nient place, laid out on logs, rubbed out ant
taken to Biloxi, where Hodge, generally prolific O
clothing was reduced to the necessity of borrow
ing shirt. The schooner lies now in the woods
, dry enough; but it would cost more to get he
back to the water than to build another schoone
like her.