The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-08-13
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
A Young Lady Faints in Swing-Tossed
Thirty-five Feet into a Tree.

) Ihlrty-1Ve Feet into Tree.
On "Wednesday of the present week
lively and joyous party of ladies and gentle
men started out from the neighborhood O.
Guthrleville, Chester county, for the pur
pose Of spending day on the summit O
the romantic Welsh Mountain, about two
miles and half from Morgantown. The
party consisted of six ladies and five gen
tlemen. Two of the ladies were sisters
from Baltimore, Misses S. V. and Annie
Il. johnson, daughters of a prominent
salesman of that city.
They left the farm house on the above
morning at three o'clock in large cover ed
wagon, containing provisions, ropes for
swings, croquet sets, and a parlor organ.
1t was three O'Clock in the afternoon when
Miss Annie johnson expressed wish to
engage IN swinging. A swing had been
put up IN the morning, suspended from a
tree sixty feet high. About half way up
the solid oak huge limb branched out to
the left, upon which both ends of the rope
were fastened, thus making the swing thir-
ty feet, requiring rope over sixty feet
long-one used for well digging. This
swing had been used during the day with
out accident
Miss johnson, who is lady of daring
disposition, insisted on being swung as high
as could be done by the aid of the gentle
men, and to crafty her wishes they con-
sented. The young lady is between Is and
and 19 years old, pretty brunette, dark
eyes, and was dressed in grey linen suit.
She sat on the seaboard of the swing, and,
grasping the rope tightly, bade them 90
ahead. The swing commenced its motion,
and gradually rose higher and higher until
an altitude of twenty feet had been reach
ed. She still insisted upon being pushed,
and up went the swing higher until fully
thirty feet had been reached
She had been cheerful and lively up to
this point, but all of sudden she became
quite, the rest Of the ladies were we
stricken, and when the swing with It's pre-
cious burden made one swift into the air
her head was noticed to drop one side mus
cles relaxed, her arms to let go their hold
and drop, and away the unfortunate girl
was hurried through the air, and only saved
from a frightful and terrible death by one
Of the most miraculous interventions ever
heard of.
The momentum Of the swings motion
carried the apparently ffeless form of the
girl mp fully thirty five feet from the ground
and lodged her safely and securely be-
tween two branches at the point where they
join the trunk of tree which stood about
thirty-eight feet from the tree to which the
rope was attached. 1t was fully twenty
feet from the ground to the first limb
above, and the trunk Of the tree about
three feet in diameter. They backed the
wagon with its canvas cover directly under
the tree, so that in case she should dropI
her fall would be partially broken. The
swing was hurriedly taken down, and in an
instant one end Of the rope was thrown
over the limbs of the other tree and Sc
cured below BY this means two gentle
men of the party hurriedly went up the
rope, and in a few minutes were at the side
Of the unfortunate girl.
She was just returning to consciousness,
and the force of her fall had so securely
wedged her between the trunk and the
limbs as to require no little effort to ex-
tricite her Miss Johnson at once realized
her fearful situation. She was pale and
weak, but still had the good sense to do as
the gentlemen desired. The rope was pulled
up, the slip-knot was made and then passed
around her body under her arms, the other
end passed around the limb, and in this
manner she was lowerd to the ground in
safety. With the aid of the wagon cush-
ions and several shawlsa couch was arranged,
upon which the young lady was placed and
soon rcgained her strength.-Reod'ng
Eagle.