The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-07-01
A Woman and Child Buried Alive.

Aletter from Powellton, Georgia, to an
Atlanta paper, says: In Boggs county,
on the road leading from Marshalville to
Fruwick, and ten miles from the former
town, lives wellto-do farmer by the
name of Myrup. His amiable and loved
wife early after breakfast had taken her
infant child, about eighteen months old,
in her arms and gone off in search of a
fine and favorite milch cow.
On coming home from the field to his
dinner, Mr.. M. learned that his wife and
sweet little prattler had not made their
appearance. Almost frantic with fear
and excitement for their safety, knowing
that very large bear had been seen in
the swamp near by only few days be-
fore, he put out Immediately in search of
the missing ones. All the hired men and
women on the place followed, and each
taking different direction, the whole
country was ransacked for several miles
around. The neighbors, also, as the sad
news reached them, joined in the search.
The sun was just about sinking behind
the western hills when the miserable hus-
band was returning up a small branch
that had its source at his spring, and as
he was still anxiously, but almost hope
lessly, looking in every direction, while
passing along he deserted in patch of
luxuriant grass, in a marsh few PAGES
off something like a piece of gingham.
He stood Mortified and motionless for a
moment or two and his heart almost
stopped pulsating as the thought rushed
to his frenzied brain that the object he
saw might be his wife's bonnet, and that
both she and his darling boy might be
buried in the fathomless quagmire over
the center of which lay this relic.
Approaching to within safe distance
of this miry pit, he discovered the grass
turned downward and the surface of the
slough broken and depressed, showing
that some living body had fallen in and
been struggling greatly to get out.
Very soon one of the neighbors and two
of the freedmen belonging to the farm
came up. Mr.. M. had already explored
to the depth of his arm in the mire, but
found no further traces of the unfortu-
nate ones. A pole twelve or fifteen feet
long was now obtained, and sent down
its full length, but neither could any
thing be felt nor the bottom touched.
Another rod, longer than the first, was
then fastened to it, and the same exami-
nation made with q like result. Any
further attempt to recover the dead bodies
was therefore deemed useless. 1t was
accordingly decided to desist, and the
party, which had by this time increased
to thirty-five or forty persons, all set out
for their respective homes, just as the
pail of night began to wrap the earth in
darkness
At this juncture, the state of Mr.. Ms
mind, who had to be carried away by
force, can better be imagined than de-
scribed. His agonizing cries and groans
were piteous, indeed, and most painful
to hear.
This quagmire had been known to all
the occupants of the farm from its ear
liest settlement, but never till en- was
any conception formed of its immense
depth. Full thirty feet of it had been
sounded, yet its lowest part, if any it
has, is still to be ascertained. The main
diameter of the pit proper, for some fif
teen feet down, is about three and half
feet