Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-06-19
THE uERorNEor LAKE ERIE.

THE HEROINE OF LAKE ERIE.
The dark, stormy close of Novem-
Der, 1854, found many vessels on Lake
Erie, but the fortunes of one alone
have special interest for US. About
that time, the schooner Conductor,
Iowned by John Mcleod, of the Pro-
lvincial Parliament, resident of Am
lhertsburg, at the mouth of the De-
troit river, entered the lake from that
river, bound for Port Dalhousie,- at
the mouth of the Welland canal
She was heavily loaded with grain
Her crew consisted of Captain Hack
EFT, a Highlander by birth, and a
skillful and experienced navigator,
and six sailors. At nightfall, shortly
after leaving the head of the lake,
one of those terrific storms with
which the autumnal navigators of
that "Sea of the Woods" are all too
familiar, overlook them. The wealth
er was intensely cold for the season |;
the air was filled with snow and sleet;
remembering the schooner, and load
ing down her decks and rigging. AS
the gale increased, the tops of the
waves were shorn off by the fierce
blasts, clouding the whole atmos-
lphere with frozen spray, or what the
sailors call spoon drift" rendering
it impossible to see any object few
rods distant. Driving helplessly be-
fore the wind, yet in the direction Of
its place of destination, the schooner
sped through the darkness. At last,
near midnight, running closer than
her crew supposed to the Canadian
shore, she struck on the outer bar off
Long Point Island, beat heavily
across II, and sunk In the deeper wa
ter between 1t and the inner bar
The hull was entirely submerged, the
waves rolling in heavily, and dash
ing over the rigging, to which the
crew betook themselves. Lashed
there, numb with cold, drenched by
the pitiless waves, and scourged by
the showers of sleet driven before the
wind, they waited for morning. The
slow, dreadful hours wore away, and
at length the dubious and doubtful
gray of morning of tempest sue
ceeded to the utter darkness of night.
Abigail Becker CHANGED at that
time to be in her hut with none but her
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70 the beach ut the nea rest noint 70
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