Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-01-05
! Thrilling Narrative Of Insanity and
Death at Sea.

marvellous escape in one OF the ships
boats. When he left the Hibernia his
boat contained two barrels OF biscuit,
three casks of water, and several cans
of preserved meat. Two hours after
one of the barrels of biscuit had to be
thrown overheard, the boat was SO
overloaded with passengers. The
boat was life boat, p feet long, with
six or seven feet beam, and it requir-
ed two men constantly bailing to keep
her aHOat. One of the women had
two children, of three and five years
old respectively, aud another an i'll
fant six months old. The tarpaulin
was spread over the forward part of
the boat to keep the women comfort
able. Nothing Of particular note oc-
Cured till the second night, when an
old man who had shown symptoms of
arrangement, jumped overheard, say
ing he was going to bed. From that
time their troubles and sufferings in
creased rapidly. We quote:
Next morning one Of the passen-
gers supposed to be Fraucis Rogers
suddenly threw himself overheard. A
woman, supposed to be his sister, plea
ded hard that some O. us should throw
her into the sea after him; but We
endeavored to 5oothe her, and sue
ceeded in some degree. Rodgers was
evidently out Of his senses. He had
Quarrejed with Us because we sailed
the compass to the thwar;s. He want
ed the knees Of his trousers darned,
as he could not. he said, go home
with holes IN them. Up 70 this time
provisions had been giycn in moder-
ate quantities, aud each person had a
daily allowance .! pint Of water
/ We had now to shorten the allowance
We had 10 keep pulling both on the
fourth and fifth days, and did not
make much progress. Sunday was
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: we had to mako . saiI ami IF . Moo
of tarnauIi, and na content with on
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= the boat. The via BLOWN. fercel
the Jarpaulju was ..,. j,to rar,. an
we substituted for il bed covers
These latter were also soon destroye,
Samuel Brewster. au old man, died q
"Wednesday. after 5oino raviuo ma,
Many Of our number now Shove
signs OF madness: probably from d
SPAR and exposure 10 extreme coll
Some became violent and threateuil
in their conduct. and We had TO u.
force with certain of them, and gra
} ually we got them Gained down.
l. Early on Thursday morning a chII
l. five years Of age, died; and short
9, atterward its mother expired. A
u other child took .ock.iaw and died ,
a so. The bodies were thrown oy.