The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-09-20

4 Man Caught in a Fresbet and Car
ried Trough A sewer 10 the Ohio
River, Distance of a Mile ana
Half.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
On Teusday evening about 7
O'Clock, seven or eight wOrkmen en-
tered the Sycamore street sewer,
near Abigail street, for the purpose
of cleaning it out. While they
were there the sudden and violent
storm came onwhich our city readers
will remember. A torrent Of water
rushed into the sewer. The men
made q scramble to get out and all
! of them succeeded III doing so but
one. John Clark. Clark was swept
from his feet, and found himself
| rushing down the sewer ut a furious
rate. The light disappeared as no
receded from the entrance of tho
sewer. The air grew close and
yapory. The water Missed and boiled
around him, and bore him helplessly
! along. In vain he clutchcd at tho
smooth, hard brick walls OF tho
sewer. Minutes seemed hours, and
hours seemed to lengthen into dayg,
and vet he rushed along the boilin"
tide feet foremost, barely able to
keep his head above water. AIr.
Clarke is not religious man, but III
his youth he received a little evan
ueIicaI instruction, which did him
good service now. He brought INTO
| requisition some old prayers thathad
been laid away III his memory SO
long that he had almost forgotten
them. In this hour of his peril no
! found himself face to faes, rs 1t
were, with an accusing conscience.
Until this moment it appeared to
him that what he had been accus-
toned to regard as tritiing derelic-
tions had been looked at all his life
as If from the reverse end of tele-
scope. Now they appeared IN their
true light, and were ma9niiied TO
startling dimensions. On and on no
. foated in the seething flood, through
the sinuous channel, which was SO
dark and turbid and winding that 1T
seemed that he was enveloped by
: the pillows OF the mighty river Styx
which flows nine times around Hell.
Despair seized him Considerable
f ! damage also began to be done to his
8 keel by attrition, owing to his pecu-
! liar style CT navigation, and the shal-
Iowness of the water. Mr.. Clark
, saws he never felt SO discouraged
, and down-hearted in the whole
course of his adventurous career.
= and he is now somewhat advanced
In life. BE began to take bilge
water heavily, and to consider that
this was indeed " the last Of earth
About the time he had given up all
2 hope of ever again seeing Mrs.
: Clark and the little Clarks, Mr.. CLARK
! suddenly shot into the open air
: Hope began TO revive III him, and no
Q ! concluded that, after all, he was not
quite so wicked man as he had
Thought. He called aloud for help
He crawled toward the bank, and
4 was rescued from the water By
Mr.. Lewis, who lives In n barge and
keeps skiffs for hire on the Ohio
e River. MIR Clark inquired where ho
it was. and was informed that be was
o at the mouth of Deer Greek, where
= the sewer empties into the OH
;. river, and that, consequently, no
e had made a voyage of more than =
e mile and a half in quicker time than
i he could have made it on a donkey.
= After refreshing himself by rest. and
e taking some nourishment, Mr.. Clark
y started for home, where he arrived
about midnight Mr. Clark don t
: spend much of his time sitting
down now, and he partakes Of his
alGtudinous hash from Mrs Clark 5
T. biggest pantry shelf