The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-10-17
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[C0rce- pouG'n e OF the XII hmond Dispatch
BuCXlNG2AM COUNTY. VA I
Oct. 10, 1870. !
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BhtorS Eichmcnd Dispatch:
Your correspondent believes that every
:hiN. ut Importance CONNECTED with the re-
cvui great nuldation Of W&!cTs ought TO
hg PUT upon record. We have been cut of
from mail communication !oi' several DAYS
and 10 accurate accoNat has hitherto
h"cu published Of the loss of life in
my immediate ViciniIy. In the case
"i two families ut least the circun,-
stances We're peculiarly touching, and
simple recital Of the facts ltu>t awaken
the llrvlle>t sympathy in every Grart not al
together lost 10 u generous emotion. 1t
seems that q Nj. Jones, Il person, pro-
>umc, about forty Years OF age, resided
uuoH piece 81 low-@fouud> on the lands
al Mr.. Eiaabri;, >one :uur miles above New
Market. lie ilad 4 vie ,,i,a two little chill
drrn-une ap iut,mt about two years old,
the othcr abcut five. Ills niecc--a young
aud heautiIM girl of seventeenth Miss
Wright, was on visit It: his i!Uli>".
II appears from tic account ii the sur
ElrrrS that they Nerc arui>Ul about 1
clock IN the moruHS ~ thc rush o. the
waters, and aW0kc Only - lind c,r;1s.o i'm
possible. The house WAS 'GrguUnucd. and
IL few In"nlcuts WIS swept away by the
turhiG and angry current. GhcN were bur
rlcd along sultc two ~ t..rcr miles. when
they CAME in sight OF the dam across the
river III New Market. Known. that his
hous" would hr crushed TO atons and his
family probably lost, this unfortunate man
SAID 10 his Wyli-hClpvc0 wiic " My little
wife. We a,c probably Ill LOST. There is
barely = chance az our rescue. shall uu-
dcrtant tc swim 10 The shore, and meet vol:
below the dam with canU" u RAFT, if pos
>jnle, Ii is our only chance >-nc and his
mere. m agonizinG tones. begged him to
dcsi,i, knowing that he WAS not Il good
swimmer: but lie irndlr embraced them,
and >pran@ from window aud struck out
yalianilr for the sncra. lie swan only Il
short distance. when his strokes grew fainter
and fainter. and soon he sank 10 rise no
more. His family Were in sight; and rs he
had predicted. III" house WAS crushed and
torn II pieces ~ the conclusion 1t the dam.
! ith hi%u ;tlld noble hero-m and TRUE
motherly devotion, Mrs. Jones ciasnrd
both Of hCr children to her bosom and sank
with them, but y. >lte rus" Il seems thai he
placed them Oh the roof oi the house, around
Which WIS = sort Of "aluStradc, and sue
! recded herself N letting upon loatin@
luG, ~ also did Miss Wright. Thuy were
all washed oil together, hui Mrs. }. bcclmr
outauglrd With i tree. and the chDdrch Nnu
Miss Wright swept past her. Ten miles
below Miss rlGh. WI& seen clin-inw 10 tb"
log, her GcwinS hair Wet with spray, and
a. >lc p4Ssct: Mr.. II in dcSpairiny tones
She asked. "N'hat >lIli! ] Ga IL he saved:
WHAT Shall do 80 he saved ~ lie told her
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