Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1866-10-27

ed hrongh and through. Cold, wet,
hopeless. hungry. in darkness, beyond
the dim lickerof the occasional covered
, lanterns here and there carried, the con.
fusion was indescEibable, the agony ter
rife, the fright terrible, Every one CUES
toned him or her mex, what he or she
thought. Strangers became friends and
I col,borers from the supreme necessity OF
peril. Women fell down in mysteries.
children. too young to appreciate The posi-
ton. scrambled in the darkness after their
parents, and cried frantically. Here and
there could be found some, snblmely
forgelfHl of self, trying 10 sustain and en-
courage. Sounds of remembered prayer
or scripture came now and then barely
distingushable among the noise OF MN
gled motion, calling, curslng, and cfylng
lFhe actresses were completely helpless.
Their dependency, their fright, their ag-
ony were terrible. They WIung their
hands, called on each other for The assIs
tance and information which all were too
scared and TOO ignorant 10 give. Eng.ish
PRAYERS, German petitions, French ex.
clamaions ir!crmingIed in heieroge'
nous vocal variety ! Some counted their
beads, some their money. TO increase
The horror quite number drowned their
conception Of the scenes IN liquor, and
drunken men and women, too, sang up
roariously, and at times Iewedly, through
the fearful surroundings. At B O'Clock
on Wednesday morning, the dreadful
ne VS. came "A leak is sprung; there
is great water in the hold" 50 great
thad been the former fright that 'his worst
confirmation Of the EXTREMIST Tears dId
not seem 10 add TO the terror, but was re-
ceiyed al first with sort OF blank dls.
nav that had no words. About quarter
before four in the morning, while the Eve
hing Star was in lhe surglng trough, and
swept by tremendous cross sea, an ap-
palIing crash was heard above, cry OF
rage, The iramping of men upon men, ev-
idenlIy new horror had happened, II
Iappeared that the main smoke-stack had
been carried away. The water rushed
now in gigantic volumes across and across
the decks from end TO end. The fires IN
he large engine room were pui out. The
hremen were sent rushing on deck 10 es-
cape, for a brief while, the delnge that
hungered to swallow them up. The
donkey engines were then the sole de-
pendence to keep The swinging, leaking,
/ helpless mass in motion. The SEQ had
meanwhile swept into spliDtrrs The wheel
house, leaving only the "a braces and
gnnwaIes. At AS A. NJ, the last hope
! Of keeping the vessel under control was
given up. The wafer al this point rush.
! ed in and exlinguished even the fires in
the donkey engine rooms, and wheeIiess,
mGderless, maslIess, engneIess. hreIess,
| he Evening Star lay torn and scanned IN
he Tremendous hurricane, with more
than ,hree hundred souls on board look
ing death in the eye. Al FIVE o'clock the
rspain told the passengers all that could
be done had been done, and all hands
must to The pumps. Heretofore The steam
from the donkey engines bad been run
ming the pumps vigorously but inefeclu-
/ ally. Now hands must work 10 pro.
| long the last and least chance of life.
/ Ait they went with will, nerved by
the energy of despair. Then al hands
not at the pumps wentto bailing oni. 50
soon as something 10 do was presented,
beuer spirit was obtained. Sex Wed with
sex in Isbor. Women, mPn, and chIl-
dreG, work with strength winch was the
more sad in the thought that certain death
made all labor useless. That they did
not know. While there was something
10 do, or life 10 work for, there was hope.
The noble conduct Of all parties is else
where detailed. That Of the women
whose antecedenls would have suggested
otherwise, but over whose fate The noble
close Of their life will cause regret and
sorroas 10 be east, not second 10 what
are showered upon others better behaved
or better circumstsnced than they, was
heroic in The extreme, and lie charity that
is kiud will cover the multitude OF their
remembered faults. in the recall oi Ihelr
courage, their sci sacrifice, and Their mar
lyrdom of exerton During lhIs Ine1ec-
Iual atiempi to bail out, The remorseIess
waves were sweeping scores into eterni.
~, az their Ilsck and angry volume spread
over decks in search Of victims Their
deaths but briefly anticipated The ruim
that awaited nesry al. What remains
can be but briefly told. Those thsI snr
rlye remember few details from ihis
point. The low ering Of he boats, bich
were almost all al once successiveIy en-
gulphrd by The naGness OF the waves,
and whirh proved, instead of safety, on
" cofiins, can heuer be imsgincd-and 10