Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-04-17


gsaf took sae 10 the schooner, and, placing
me safely aboard, started for the other
man. This proved to be Hennebury, who
stated he had been for three hours on his
raft. which was gapg-plank.s He stated
that there were great many who chung
to the gang plank, but, with their bodies
partly in the water, they would become
thoroughly chilled, and SO drop of, one
after another.
Edward Hennebury, the other survivor,
on the breaking out of the flames, went
aft, and, jumping overheard, chung to a
raft until rescued by the boats of the Cor
nelia. Some ten or fifteen followed him
to the raft, but dropped off one by one,
exhausted by cold, and persisted. Henne-
bury's hands were nearly frozen by hang
ing to the iron rod. His statement is sub
stantialy the same as Chamberlain's.A 81
FL ANOTHER SURVIVOR. 8. ES M
About one O'Clock, on the morning of
the 10th, q third survivor of the disaster
made his appearance at Evanston. The
following is his statement as published in
the Chicago papers of the 11th: got on
boardthe Sea Bird with my wife, at Man
itowoo, ON Wednesday morning, to go to
Chicago do not think, after we left Mil
5Waukee, that there were more than thirty
or forty people on board, besides the
crew.. A good many more got off at that
city than got on, remember. / went into
my state-room with my wife, and we re-
tired for the night about IL O'clock. I got
up about o'clock in the morning (Thurs-
day) and went out ondock. I met the first
offic r and had some conversation with him
asked him how far 6 was to Chicago. ' He
said it was 20 miles, and that we were then
just off Lake Forest. Soon after Invent into
my state-roOm, where my wife was just
rising to dress herself had hardly
opened the door when heard some one
cry Fire" I went below on the main
deck to find out what the matter was, and
| saw the flames in the back part of the
boat already making up into the main
cabin. and out through the portfolios.
Justthen the steamer headed toward shore,
and the fire and smoke came bursting
through towards the forward part of the
boat. tried to go up stairs to rescue my
wife, but the fire and smoke drove me
back. | did not see, or hear my wife, al
though everybody was crying aud running
| from the fire.. think my poor wife must
have persisted in the flames. The wind
drove the fire toward us q we drew for.
ward, and !, soon became convinced
/ 1udtl stAlC OOdt lAuSb UQlA up Was
rather afraid of an explosion, and Jump
ed into the water. lam a good swimmer,
and 1 soon got hold of floating plank.
I kept this for a while, and then a piece
of one of the paddle-boxes came floating
past me, and / took that. The waves
drifted me toward shore pretty fast, but
| the boat went in faster than did. saw
the, fire gradually burning along the boat,
and saw the passengers jumping over,
one after another. I should think about
twenty jumped over that i saw. They
swan around for q time, most OF them,
and then the waves would come over them
and could not see them any more. 9th
ers appeared to go down just like stones.
III looked for them to see them come up
after they jumped in, but | did not see
them. did not see any women in the
water, and do not think any women
jumped over. think there were about
ten women, altogether, on the boat. I
could see the people crowding further in
to the bow as the fire swept toward them,
the wind now and then blowing the smoke
and blaze right among them, which made
some jump over. stuck to the paddle
box, and was washed in shore Twas in the
water about twelve hours, and landed
about three miles north of this place (Ev-
anston) somewhere about z O'Clock last
night. think it was about that time; /
know it took me about five hours to walk
down here ,(Eyanston), for was almost
dead with the cold. think could not have
held out much longer, and felt like Civ
| ing, up three or four times. Before |
jumped into the water they tried to get the
steamers boats down, but the fire drove
US away. The sea was not so very high,
and the boats could easily have kept from
capsizing. OF those who were on board l
knew George. w. Emery and Joseph Smith,
of Manitowoc, and Mr.. A. @. Chamberlain,
of Sheboygan Falls. I also knew some of
the offers and crew by sight. .ss.~-
The narrator of the above statement
wept bitterly several times in the course of
his recital, as he thought of his own suf-
ferings and of his sad bereavement. Mr..
Leonard was more dead than alive when
he arrived at Evanston, but by dint of
kind care he was so far improved that yes
terday morning 10th) he was in a COM
paratiyely comfortable condition. egad