The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-10
Lost I'm the xTOods-A Lost ChiIa
Lives SeVenty-Six Hours I'm the
Woods Without Nouri~hmenI.
From the Louisville couri9r-Journal.

(From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
For the last two mornings our Jefferson
vile reporter has furnished us in his re
port an account of child being lost il
the woods. and last night be sent us tn,
following particulars of the strange anc
interesting story:
The little son of Mr.. VIM. Priglev.
who was lost in the woods near CrotherS
vile, was found late Tuesday afternoon.
The circumstances attending this case are
most remarkable.
On last Saturday morning, Mrs. PrigIey
started for a cornfeld near her house,
leaving her little son, child of but three
years OF age, at the house, telling him TO
remain in the yard and play until she re-
turned. She had gone bur few minutes
before the appearance of a storm coming
up caused her to return. What was her
surprise and alarm when she arrived at
home, to find that her child was no where
to be seen.
She searched the entire premises. but
could not find a single trace of the boy.
Becoming by this time seriously alarmed,
she flew over to a neighboring house and
gave the alarm
In less than an hour the entire neigh
borhood, headed by the frantic father,
was out searching for the missing boy.
A thorough search was made all that day
and late in the night, but it proved fruit
less. AT early dawn the next day the
search was resumed, and night found the
boy still missing. The parents by this
time were frantic with grief, and the
mother attempted to drown herself in the
river known as the Muscattatack, at Ba-
ker's mills, but the attempt was frustrated,
and the grief-sticken women carried to
her home.
The third day the search was still con-
tinued. By this time over two hundred
people had gathered and joined in the
search.
The excitement in and around the en-
tire locality was intense, men coming for
fifty miles on their horses TO assist i'm
searching for the lost child. At about
4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon lad named
Isaac Warner, while hauling stave blocks
through lonely part of the dense woods,
and at a point four miles distant and
across the riverfrom Mr.. Prigley's house,
heard a peculiar moaning sound. He
StODDCu lis bCdll anu IfSlGuGus lie
moaning was repeated He got off his
wagon and commenced searching around
He had been searching but few mo-
ments when he discovered a child lying
PROSTATE upon its back. Its face was
turned up and presented pale and
CHASTITY appearance. Warner went up to
the poor little thing and took it in his
arms. 1t moaned piteously, and was
nearly dead from fatigue, hunger and ex-
posure, The child proved to be the lost |
Eddie Prigley-and had been
around in the woods for seven
ty-six hours, and had eaten nothing in |
all that time. 1t was dressed only in a
thin calico frock, and, rs the nights have |
been cool of late, his sufferings must have |
been intense.
The child was Immediately taken home |
to its overjoyed parents. Medical atten-
ton was called, and everything has been
done to save thelife of the little wanderer.
How the child crossed the river is ex-
planned. On Saturday the Muscatta-
tack river was very low, and Mr.. Prigley, |
owning field across the stream, had a |
log raft constructed for passage to and |
from his field. The child had frequently |
crossed this log bridge, and must have
lone so that day. Saturday night the
liver raised four feet, completely covering
he bridge, and after the little fellow
got over he was unable to find his way
pack. The rain also covered the bottoms
md lowlands lying along the river, max
ng it impossible Tor a child of that age
o find its way out 1t appears also that
he search for the child was made on the
ide of the river on which Mr.. Prigley's
louse is located, no one dreaming
hat the boy had crossed over in the
on the other side of the river.
The timely finding of the boy under the
occidental circumstance seems truly prov
Dental, and Its escape from death was
niraculous.