The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-12-22
no Woman Saved.

cIplel True lt Is that first reports are not
always reliable; but so far as received eriti-
else them with the closest analysis, the &C
count Of the Evening Star disaster shows that
one boat with ten men, including purser and
engineer, was picked up by a schooner and
landed at Savannah. Another boat, with .
five Of the crew and one passenger, a male /
are also reported safe at Savannah. These /
sixteen so far constitute the rescued. Capt I
Knapp was on the aforementioned boat, but /
was lost during the gale Two Of the four
boats which succeeded In leaving the steamer /
before she went down, are yet unheard Of; /
the other two boats that belonged to her
were swamped.
Not a woman saved p One Of the boats
Is reported to have had a woman and child
aboard but even they escaped not, while
sixteen grown men, their companions IN
peril, still live. Life is sweet, we know but
where was the discipline that so often takes
the place Of courage and makes brave man
out Of a trembler, and imparts the spirit of
self sacrifice to the timid and selfish 1t is
true that each small boat has its appointed
officers and picked men and to them is
necessarily entrusted the safety of the boat
amid the raging seas that still gambol and
scream over the wreck of the foUndered ship
But all these boats are built to hold many
others than the officers and the few oarsman
chosen to guide them In to port! Where
breeze viii STIR in the ears of the survivors
Where are the w6men is the query that
ought to make the Star line proprietoFs
tremble
Not woman saved" IF your ships
| are unseaworthy; if to gain few more
| dollars, Yankee thrift builds them with so
much top hamper that gale endangers the
/ life, or lnsures the death of hundreds; where
| at least is the discipline of your officers and
| crew, which ought to guarantee to a weak
woman share in the miserable safeguards
| that stinginess affords, and which without
1 that discipline brute force inevitably seizes !?
! Officers and crew saved in part, but not a
| woman saved T. Engineer and purser In
one boat, with crew, but no woman and the
purser lives to tell the tale The captain
| and sixteen men and only one woman and
one child, on another boat Fortunately, to
avoid meeting the shaking of locks CORY with
! the death water Of the sea caves, the captain
| Of the i'll fated steamer, after six struggles
after life, has gone to meet, before another
than earthly tribunal, the question propoun-
ded, Why was not a women saved p Was
| there one among the crowd of whose mem
DRY it may yet be said.
" Among the faithless, faithful only he. ="
Some fifty years ago or more, a ship
sailed from Liverpool, with many passengers.
just after midnight when little past the
centre Of the Atlantic, the Jupiter struck an
ice island, causing her to settle almost in
stantly into the awful water. She was badly
provided with boats, but such as they were,
and all Of them, were at once launched in
silence and in order. Every passenger that
was awake was summoned to the boats
Discrimination was used, for the boats could
not hold all Let those that are awake, save
their lives Let those that are sleep, pass
to the sleep Of death-was that terrific but
II i Il
sOr, the portal, the simile of the great enemy
of life! There can be no pang in dying to
the sweet and unconscious sleeper. So
every wake pesron was summoned; every
sleeping person left to wake In an eternity
The two boats were already Over-crowded
the devoted ship fast sinking. Again the
Captain went to forecastle, to steerage, to
cabin and on deck to see if one conscious
passenger still was left unpToVided for Not
one Push off your boats, was the
solemn order. But where's nv sister p
screamed a voice of despair from one Of the
boats - see her not, and l would die to
save her" She sleeps, and | would mol
awake her One person more in, and lives
of all are endangered" replied the Captain
from the deck of the laundering ship.
Then l sleep with her, if / cannot save
her," uttered the heroic brother, as hesprune
upon the fast settling vessel, and he and she
great oceans hymns testifying to an heroic
devotion, and self sacrifice Graded in affee
ton; and dying to meet an Immortality
Not a women saved" from the Evening
I STAR What contrast!
We cannot recall the name of the vessel
, beceuse, cut off from the world, the South
/ ern States for four years back, have littl,
] left; but not many years since, a chronology
+ British transport foundered in the Atlantic
She was crowded with soldiers, their wive,
and woman and children Discipline pre-
D vailed, however in the awful scene where
/ half thousand were summoned to death
I Every boat was launched and guarded ever,
2 woman and child was conducted to the gang
3 way and securely deposited; as if the boa
+ had been ball rooms, and the seaman tn
= ushers The boats were pushed adraft
e each sailsr to his place with drums beat
j, ing and flies playing, and solitary gun
5 booming farewell to earth and sky, tn
+ ship and its officers and all went down tn
D British flag flying; going down with them
+ but covering them with its cross of glory
It There was discipline; there was seamanship
Y heroism The gurgling waves told the nut
heavens the story of devotion, and the Re
cOrding Angel copied it from the heaven
upon the great book of God. Not a woman
t not child was lost.