The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1866-11-02
From the New York Herald.
THE EVENING STAR DISASTER,
Anernsr nsae. crew saved.

OF ST. JoHN's RIvER. FLoRIpA,

October IL, 1866. }
The second mate of theIlE fated Eve
ming Star, VIM. p. Goldie, stranded OF
this shore, about four miles below tn.
bar, at ten o'clock at night of the Sth
and succeeded in reaching this bamle
the next morning, after walking twelv
miles through swamp and Jungle. Iii
account ofthe disaster is substantial,
the same as that published, excep
that his boat was entirely filled witt
passengers, all but four of whom wer,
ladies. He lost all his oars when tn,
steamship went down, and had moth.
ing but a small piece Of board to navi.
gate with. From repeatedly being
capsized he lost all but four of the la
dies, there beingleft nine persons, all
told, i'm the boat This happened du-
ring the first forty-eight hours. He
then took a shirt from one ofthe gen
tlemen, his own being tori of, and
rugged a sail by putting a cross bar
through the arms and flashing an up
right piece to 1t.
BEFORE COMING IN SIGHT OF LAND.
one man and one woman died, and
were thrown overheard. The rest Of
the men and one lady became insane
from thirst and hunger, and jumped
overheard. This left thematoaud two
young women, Miss Rosa Howard and
Miss Annie Norton. They knew on
the night.ofth Sth that they were
near a port, from the feeble glimering
Of the ships lantern, which is allowed
TO disgrace this lighthouse; but the la
dies were nearly insensible. Fortu-
nately a slight rain came on at dark,
and Mr.. Goldie wrung a small quanti-
ty ofwater into their mouths, obtained
by spreading a small piece of petticoat
on the after-thwarts. This greatly re
vived them and reopened their stitien-
ed jaws. They were sitting in the
bottom of the boat quietly, hands
clasped on hls knees, when the boat
entered the breakers, he steering with
the piece of board. The boat passed
through two breakers successfully, but
capsized in the third, in water so shall
low that Goldie's feet touched bottom
at once. He reached shore quickly,
shouted TO his companions and went
into the surf as far as the undertow
would permit, but neither saw nor
heard them again. They, undoubtedly.
mtheir enfeebled condition, forsix days
without food or water, other than one
small fish, and the rain of Monday
evening; almsst without clothing; OK.
posed to almost a tropical sun were
drowned at once. They could not
make the, one small effort that would
have crowned their heroic endurance
with success. The body of Miss Annie
Norton (printed Addie in the list of
passengers of the Savannah News was
found, and buried next morning above
h~igh-water mark. She was from Long
Island. The place Of burial IS well
known, should her relatives desire TO
regain the body or transfer it to the
Catholic cemetary here. Miss Rosa
Towards body (there is no,Rosa How
ard, but Rosa Burns, in the same list
was found the same evening by two
fishermen, but their cowardly dread
would not permit them to touch it. 1t
was again seen by q little boy who was
unable to move il out Of the surf /
have offered rewards and sent expedi-
tions in search Of it, thus far without
success, and shall send some of nav
boatmen again at low water to-day,
with directions to bring ii or secure It,
if possible. If find it alter sending
this letter-to-morrow at daylight
will have it buried in the cemetery
grounds Of the Catholic church, and adj
wise you of the fact.
II CONDUCT OF THELADIEs DURING THE
SALE.
The courage, patience, obedience of
directions, heroic, quiet endurance of
thirst and hunger and of an almost
tropical sun, ofall the ladies, is spoken
Of by Mr.. Goldie as being beyond
praise but Miss Howard (who had but
a chemise, with her name on its 'front.'
and Miss Norton (who had, in addition
to that garment, a sort Of worsted sack.
trimmed with dark trimming. and
made to be worn with q belt) who sur
vived the rest of the passengers, were
brave, gentle, ladylike, accomplishing,
able to obey directions, DESTROYS of as
sisting themselves and others to the
utmost-they were heroines. That
they should have failed at the last mo-
ment, after such heroic struggles. is
sad to think OF. They needed but the
steel-like muscles of the officer to have
secured success. Miss Norton was
about twenty years of age, quite tall,
with dark hair. Miss Howard, on the
contrary, was not above five feet one
and a half or two inches, and sixteen
or seventeen years of age; both re,
markable fine looking women the hair
of the latter was also dark. The last
named lady was from the city of New
York.
1 send you this account, received
from Mr.. Goldie and the fisherman O
the beach, that | may possibly, if but
in u small degree, soften the anguish OF
the relatives of those who persisted on
ill-fated steamer, knowing that vour