The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-05-03
Terrible Accident.
Correspondence Of the State Register.

WEBSTER CITY, April "a.
Ed. REGIsTER:-A shocking accident oc-
Cured about one o'clock to day at the cross
ing on Boone River, near Hooks Point, in the
South part ofthiscounty resulting in the death
of three persons-the wife, child, and mother
of Capt Charles A. Sherman, of Fort Dodge!
Owing to the high water, the stage passengers
and mails have been taken across the river
ordinarily fordable-in skiff, q team and
hack being always in readiness on the side of
the river opposite from which they arrive.
These ladies and the child of the youngest,
were en- route for home, having left Des Moines
in Wednesday mornings stage. A young man
at the crossing undertook to convey them over
the river in skiff, together with their bag
gage and the mails. The skiff was rather
heavily loaded, and was considerably stop
heavy" Upon striking the swift current one
of the oars struck some brush or other impedi-
ment in the river,s causing the boat to tip
down SO as to take in water, and at the same
time one of the mail sacks slid into the river.
The boy in bis efforts to save the mailbag tip
ped the boat so that it filled and sunk, probably
striking concealed snag in the swift current at
the instant of his his effort to recover the sack
The boy succeeded in reaching the shore, but
the two unfortunate ladies and the child were
drowned in few moments. Ono of the dr-
out into the river, but was unable to render any
assistance One Of the ladies swan down with
the current several rods, and had sufficient pres
ence Of mind to call to the driver on the right
/ bank, asking him if he could swim.
The eldest lady was the wife of s. N. Sher.
man. Esq, Postmaster at Fort Dodge. The
party were returning from the East, where they
had spent the winter Chas A. Sherman, for
| mer Postmaster at Fort Dodge, left home last
fall. private in the company of Capt. Stratton,
which joined an independent regiment from Pa,
and has been for some months at Fortress Mon.
roe. He has just been appointed Commissary
| of Subsistence, with the rank OF Captain, and
| is now performing the duties OF his position
somewhere in Eastern Virginia. No persons in
| Northwestern Iowa are more widely known, or
more highly respected, than the families Of the
deceased, and the blow will fall with heart sick.
| epipg effect upon vide circle of relatives and
friends. Capt. Sherman has, always from boy,
| been noted for his extraordinary reverence for
his mother-a lady whose intelligence and ami.
! ability Of character made her distinguished
ornament Of the society in which she lived
but their present cruel fate has deprived him al
once Of wife, mother and only child. God pity
him in this hour of almost unparalleled bereave
ment and affection l.
In divorce suit, st New York, brought b.
Mary Ann Singer against Isaac n. Singer, Oh,
noted sewing mschine needle patentee, the cour
ordered her an allowance Of 90, 900 per annum
alimony, aud her counsel . fec Of $3.50, It Va
given IN evidense that Singers income Va
12oO, 900 year..
! A young woman born without legs, and VII
propels herself by holding boot in one han
and short stick in the other, was recent
. married in Sheffield England, to . 6ne lust
! young fellow. When the ceremony was pez
, forming, she took OF her boot to have b,
hand Joined in her husbands.