Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-10-24
THE RAFTsmAn's JOURNAL,

OF age, caught hold with US and clung on
for several hours. She held on while we
capslzed three times, but kept growing
weaker. AT last we were turned over again,
and she was lost. We all got very much
exhausted and could scarcely hold on to the
boat; MIR. Allen became very weak, and
would have been lost but for assistance Civ
en- him. We were all bruised more or less,
and the salt water made our wounds very
painful.
Captain Knapp did his duty faithfully
throughout, doing all in his power to save
his ship. and when he found there was no
hope, contributed much to preserving order
among the passengers and crew. He float
ed tor some time, but while clinging TO one
OF the llfe-boats he was struck on the head
by piece OF timber and killed On our
arrival at Savannah. the purser, Mr. Allen,
did everything that was in his power to
make us comfortable. We had lost every
thing, and even the clothes we had on were
ruined by our long exr osure in the water
New suits were given US, and passage to
New York secured for us on the propeller
| Virgo. On board this latter vessel we re-
celved every attention from the officers
| We were Ill very much sunburned while in
the open boat, and during our passage home
| the skin peeled off our faces and hands. /
/
in few days. One of the passengers on
board the Evening Star was Capt. Joseph
+. Robinson, OF Boston, brave and gal
liant man. He was one of the coolest men on
board the wreck, and labored manfully to
save the ship and to calm the fears of the
women and frightened men. He struggled
| hard for his life, but was struck. by piece
of the floating wreck and went down.
The women on board the ship behaved
nobly during the terrible scenes of the
tempest, yielding n ready compliance to all
orders given them. There were about forty
prostitutes on board the ship, but they had
behaved with great propriety from the first
There were but two or three exceptions to
this. and they were not particularly bad.
Most of the women had been obliged to re-
main in their rooms or in the saloons, pre-
vious to the storm, owing to the rough
weather Many OF them were sea-sick. as,
indeed, were many of the men One of the
prostitutes. who was the proprietress of an
elegant house of i'll fame in New Orleans,
had beautiful pair of l,or les on board and
and fine new carriage. They were all anx-
ious to work when danger appeared, and
some of them did good service.
/ Captain Robinson, referred to in the state
ment of MIR. Harris, was member of the
firm of Bouve & Robinson, End was return
| ing to New Orleans, where his house had a
branch store. Captain Robinson was a son
of Rev. j. p. Robinson, a well known Epis-
copal clergyman in Boston. The captain
was one of the earliest volunteers in the late
war, aud was connected with the Potomac
army through all its vicissitudes He was
detached from the regiment in which he en-
listed and attached to the United States en-
gineer corps In all the bloody battles
wherein he had taken part he escaped with
hardly scratch.> His destiny proved to
have been to escape the perils of the battle
field and meet watery grave.
Among the passengers on the III l-fated
steamship whose names did not appear in
the published list, were Lieut.. w p Dixon,
of the Sixth United States cavalry, who
graduated at the United States military
academy at West Point, in June last also
Wylde Hardings. of the late Con ederate
privateer ship Shenandoah He was the
hus band Of Belle Boyd, who is now in New
York city