Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-11-04

broad day, on shore, and with
people around, don't you know
that the sight and presence of a
dead person brings up solemn
thoughts and nervous feeling? ]
knew how they would look, now
they were floating around in the
room, and if the father hadn't
been looking so wretched above,
there was no money 10 tempt me
in there. But at last / got a crow
bar from forwards, and not letting
myself think, gave the light door
a blow that stove it in. The water
came rushing out, the vessel just
then lurched over towards my side,
out they came, the woman first,
her eyes wide open and her hair
trailing behind, and in her left
hand she held the hand of the
child. ] knew how they would
look; but | screamed out and
jumped back. Her face was
Ifearfully distorted, showing how
hard death had been made, and
the eyes looked through the green
waters at me in way that made
my flesh creep. The child bad
died easily,its little white face Civ
ing cut no sign Of terror.
It was a gooeedd gooeed while before before !
fastened the line to them aaIa gave
the signal to haul up, and ! was
not long in following. This is
one of the drawbacks to any feel
ingof curiosity a diver might otL-
erwise have. Inever go down the
hatchway or cabin steps without
thinking ola dead man floating a.
bout there. When the Lacla Belle
sunk on st. Clair fats the engineer
was caught in the rushing waters
and no trace was ever found of
his body. His wife came to NE,
hearing that | was to go down to
the wreck, and asked me to find
the body if possible. / remem-
bered this when l went down and
went cropping through the engine
room in momentary expectation
of encountering the body. / Hooked
SO long without finding it that | got
nervous, and had started for the
ladder to go up, when I felt some
thing strike my helmet and give
way, and a chill went dancing over
me as thought the dead body was
at hand. But on reaching up, u
found that l had run against the
fire-hose, the end Of which was
hanging down, and what ! so dread
ed was still hidden beyond my
sight. ~ Us t0k
A diver does not like to go down
more than hundred and twenty
feet; at that depth the pressure is
painful and there is danger of in
ternal injury. Lean stay down
for FIVE or six hours at time at a
hundred and fifteen or twenty feet
and do a good deal of hard work.
In the waters of Lake Huron the
diver can see thirty or forty feet
away, but the other lakes will
screen a vessel not ten feet from
you.
Up here you seldom think OF
accident or death, but hundred
feet Of water washing over your
head would set you to thinking
A little stoppage of the air pump,
a leak in your hose, a careless ac-
ton on the part of your tender,
and the weight of mountain
would press the lille out of you
before you could make a move
And you may "foul' your pipe or
line yourself, and in your haste
bring on what you dread. | often
got my hose around stair or rail,
and though / am not called cow
ardly, and generally release i'll
without much trouble, the bare
idea of what a slender thing holds
back the clutch of death off my
throat, makes a cold sweat start
from every pore. I1s
The Boston Post says: 'Samuel
Hetch was found dead in his bed
in New York, his hand elenchineil
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