The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1868-09-05

er Magnolia, on the Ohio river, some
ten miles above Cincinnati, in March
last. Mention was made, at the time
of the supposed fatal injuries re-
ceived by Charles B. Lewis, GEM
Quad, y ex-loeal of the lansing
Democrdt, who was on his way to ac-
cept situation on the Maysville,
| (Ky.) Bulletin. Being now, after a
lapse of more than five months,
partially able to resume his duties, he
thus writes up an account Of his ac
cident for the Jacbsoaian
When l bought my ticket, I asked
the clerk if the Magnolia was con-
sidered a safe boat. He looked at
me with half sneering, half pity>
Wing expression, and replied by in
quiring if / ever travelled much.
"Well, no-nOt above the aver
age"
"Then you'll learn something, by
and by" he continued.
Il did. l Was seated in the cabin,
between an ex-colonel of Georgia
regiment and Cincinnati pork dealer,
and we were all talking over the i'm
peachment matter. My fellow,pas-
senger soon became heated and an
cry. They were cursing Congress
and the President across my head
f each one as he felt-and l was look
ing for muss. Their angry talk
soon collected crowd. l had just
| got up from my chair to keep clear Of
/ the coming fracas, when l heard yell
of agony, and before you could have
counted three, up through the cabin,
= and almost under our feet came
, huge, Jagged mass of iron.
& SFor an instant thereafter l was
. conscious Of everything goine N I
saw the cabin root lifted up, heard
I the angry hiss Of steam, the crashing
e of timber, and a cry from the in>
. iured and frightened passengers that
}, will never be forgotten. Then l was
lifted from my feet; felt an intense
!. main in the back Of my head, and a
4 biting stinging sensation over my en-
:. tire body. Sixteen days afterward !
70 awoke in the Commercial Hospital, al
:. Cincinnati. l knew that | was badly
10 hurt but could not remember how Oh
II where was injured. Gas afterwards
4. aseertained, I was blown out Of thu
\ cabin into the river. When the ex
r. plosion occurred, the steamer was jus
r. rounding the bend above California
re hugging pretty close to the OH
i. shore to avoid the heavy current.
he must have taken a jump OF at leas
nd two hundred feet, as was picked u
N close to the bank. The survivor
,st were conveyed down to the city on tn
nd tug, and here comes the only joy
to can discover in the whole affair.
tai aFrom some cause or other m
of face was turned to as deep a black
hy negro ever wore, and l was accorc
1 a ingly treated as one. A dead cal
he was sent down from the hospita
of and side by side with two woqnde
re- darkies, lying on mattress, | vi
M carried up. The mistake was not dl
cry covered until the surgeon commence
shaving the hair off to get at n
nee broken skull. l was supposed, +
led the first two days, to be deck han
ital but telegram from my wife to Il
red editor of the Enquirer, who can
cry and hunted me up, set the matt
aud right.
ned "On awakening in the hospital
Of inquired how badly was hurt. II
only answer received was to IKE
lion still" Considering that cou
cies move noither hand nor foot, I regar
lbly ed this advice as entirely thro'
the away. But it did not take me 10
nts' to find out that, first, there was
hlet uncomfortable "air- hole" in the ba
ting of my head second, the sight (
the tirely gone from my left optic, a
ld the skin peeled off my face and eal
lgh- third, that | had been "steamed,
' be cooked, from head to heel, includl
j err both arms; and lastly, that the d.
DAD, tors had just pulled me through
severe attack of pneumonia.
mained in the hospital twenty-n
wac days, and then concluded to go hol
= 10 y Had not yet been able to leave
, ,bOt - bed, but accompanied by my brotl
v~o' nta' in law, c. H. RulisOn, Esq, who
mad nursed me from the third da,
, tbe made the journey.
utott "Getting home-my friends
rimi. been looking to see me come II
'er in eoffn-my wounds had all filled
.liped with proud aesh.' This Of cOu
,efore had to be burned out, driving
then crazy for a night and day, and Z
;ctim pelling me to use solution Of
some 1yitrioi twice day for forty days.
urder YOU can form slight idea Of the
, i'm, and suffering, and how much iyi
;fe- cal can endure without becol
Flue- dead matter.
ted Now after a lapse Of almost
strain hundred days, / find myself
xcited more about, but condemned to
resent, the savage marks Of the steam
cath r to my grave. A bald spot whel
iron missile crushed my skull, a
bald eye, a face that resemble a
nrs in and over my aims, body and
,rystal, are scars that resemble gfea! 81
ure sea fresh beef iald upon ehe SAiu'
ar sur, after all, I am yet alive and
u e, ,a,dx, * o,oa n,nre nursue the