Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-15

apart. while the shrieks of women and
children scared above the intoIerable
And then there was booming roar, q
laundering crash, and the riddled ANA.
ranth dropped loose from her hold and
drifted helplessly away
Instantly the fre-doors of the Borsas
were thrown open and the men began
dashing buckets of water into the fur
naces-for it would have been death and
destruction to stop the engines with
such head of steam on.
As soon as possible the Boreas
dropped down to the floating wreck and
took off the dead, the wounded, and the
unhurt-at least all that could be got at,
| for the whole forward half of the boat
was shapeless ruin, with the great
chimneys lying crossed on top of it, and
underneath were a dozen victims i'm
prisoned alive and wailing for help.
While men with axes worked with
might and main to free these poor fell
lows, the Boreas' boats went about,
picking up stragglers from the river.
And now a new horror presented itself.
The wreck took fire from the dis
mantled furnaces Never did men
work with heartier will than did those
stalwart braves with the axes. But ii
was of no use. The fire ate its way
steadily, despising the bucket brigade
that fought it. 1t scorched the clothes,
it singed the hair of the axmen-it
drove them back, foot by foot-inch by
inch-they wavered, struck final blow
in the teeth of the enemy, and sur
rendered. And as they fell back they
heard prisoned voices saying:
"Don't leave us Don't desert us
Don't do it y
And one poor fellow said
CT am Henry Worley, stoker of the
Amaranth My poo mother lives in
st. Louis. Tell her a lie for a poor
devils sake, please Say was killed
in an instant and never knew what hurt
me-though God knows I've neither
scratch nor bruise this moment It's
hard to burn up in coop like this with
the whole wide world so near. Good
by, boys-we've all got to come to it at
last, anyway
The Boreas stood away out of danger,
down the stream an island of wreathing
and climbing flame that vomited clouds
of smoke from time to time, and glared
more fercely and sent its luminous
tongues higher and higher after each
emission. A shrek at intervals told of
captive that had met his doom. The
wreck lodged upon a sand-bar, and
when the Boreas turned the next point
on her upward journey it was still
burning with scarcely abated fury.
When the boys came down into the
main saloon of the Boreas, they saw a
pitiful sight and heard world Of pitt
full sounds. Eleven poor creatures lay
dead and forty more lay moaning, or
pleading, or screaming, while score of
Good Samaritans moved among them,
doing what they could to relieve their
MISUNDERSTANDING their skinless faces
and bodies with inseed oil and lime
water, and covering the places with
bullying masses of raw cotton, that gave
to every face and form a dreadful and
inhuman aspect.
A little wee French midshipman Of
fourteen lay fearfully injured, but never
uttered sound till physician of
Memphis was about to dress his hurts.
Then he said:
"Can 1 get well? You need not be
afraid to tell me-"
No-I-I am afraid you cannot"
"Then do not waste your time with
me-help those that can get we'll"
"But -"
"Help those that can get well 1t is
not for me to be a girl 1 carry the
blood of eleven generations of soldiers
in my veins ?"
The physician-himself. man. who
had seen service in his time-touched
his hat to this little hero, and passed
on.
The head engineer of the Amaranth,
grand specimen of physical manhood,
struggled to his feet, a CHASTITY spec
tacle, and strobe toward his brother,
the second engineer, who was unhurt.
He said:
"You were on watch. You were
boss. Yon would not listen to me when
begged You to reduce your steam.
Take that take it to my wife, and tell
her it comes from me by the hand of
my murderer Take it-and take my
curse with it to blister your heart a
hundred years-and may You live so
longr'
And he tore ring from his finger,
stripping flesh and skin with it, threw it
down and fell dead
But these things must not be dvelt
upon. The Boreas landed her dreadful
cargo at the next large town and le-
livered it over to a multitude of eager
hands and warm Southern hearts-a
cargo amounting by this time to SO
wounded persons and % dead bodies
And with these she delivered a listof
SO missing persons that had drowned or
otherwise persisted at the scene of he
disaster.
A jury of inquest was impanebd,
and after due deliberafion and inquiry
they returned the Inevitable American
verdict which has been so familiar to
our ears all the days of our lives No
body to blame. "-Mdrk 7W0in.
Checkers.
A Boston paper of the 18th says
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