The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-02

he made a statement which places him In tho
| role with Jim BIudsoe. He said:
! am pilot on the Morgan. | had just been
The Morgan had just gotten under way but not
what you could call headway. We saw boat
coming up the bend we we're coming down
She blew one whistle. and we answered her
The minnie we blew We stopped tho Morgan
We then blew four whistles for both boats to
m eanltme our boat had loated three lengths of
herself She steer ed right across our bow, She
struck ns at the jack staff. aud We struck her
% the Cotton Valley was going down / dis
covered young lady on the roof. who nftelss
wards TUNED out TO be Miss Sanford OF Alex
andria. rushed on our roof and haiooad 10
the lady 10 Jump ovnrboard, md I would save
her. She made movement to jump but then
hesltafsd. could near her rs sbe would throw
her hands heavenward and cry: % God, save
mol save mel 1 pleaded with her to lump and
told her | would certainly save her.
She NEEDED NE NOT
Sit rushed back into the cabin. Rhe soon re-
turned on denk, bearing a bundle Of clothes in
her arms l then called on her again TO Jump
and t would 1s save ave her; seeing that she would
sooner struck the water than some twelve roust-
ebouts jumped into 1t and sunk 10. II could
have gotten 70 them you'd have cut the last
one, OF their throats. That moment the Cotton
Valley careened end the unfortunate young
lady, took the fatal plunge, but before / could
render her any assistance she was suck ed under
by the sinking boat. Had she made the leap
when hen h first asked her to do so. ] could have
II is said the scene was one that was beyond
description; the night VAS so dark that you
could not see your
HAND BEFORE YOUR FACE,
and the rain poured down In torrents All that
could be heard was the piifnl cries Of tho
drowning persons on all sides begging Tor
some SON, one TO come to their assistance.
wh,le somo T., Whq w9re gooq swimmers at
tured by the rivers current and carried 10 an
inevitable late.
and then bn heard tho baseeehing voices ~ two
children. They were Capt. Kouns' pets. and
sehoing s over M their weak yoices could be heard
In the yawl boat to come to him and save his
wife, and little ones. BY the time the yawl
and io q isw minutes longer they would have
gone down.
Capt. Kouns, when he found that there was
no hope for his boat. and that everybody was
jumping into the river In hopes of being req
cued, gathered unto himself his little family.
consisting q his vile and the two ehiIdren and
10 the weter quite awhile before they were re~
Mrs. w. H. Sanford. the mother of the Young
lady who was drowned, is the party alluded to
BY the captains friend as the old lady who was
ln the middle Of the river, and who was saved
through her own eyerious. swimming to the
shore. n distance of fully half n mile
One poor creature was seen to get on bar
caneto bin he sank and never came to the sur
face agaln.
@The steamboat st. Mary. which arrived hero
at q % o'clock this morning, brought to the city
Cap@ M. H. K1uns and the first IN tts. Mr.. W. A.
Duke. III the i'll fated steamboat Cotton Valley.
The captain. being nuits sick was unable to
give the full particulars Of the accident, but In
short said chat the Morgan had rsn into his
b ,st and e@G her in two. That after sinking her
they never rendered any assistance and that
had the Morgan manned her yawl5 and put
mem 10 Work not near so many people would
have besn drowned.
He stated further. that the Morgan deserted
MIN and came to the city, leaving him In per
fsctly helpless condition. and to the mercy Of
any boat that might chance to pass.
The captain said, had the Morgan rsmninsd
few minutes longer and hs could have obtained
little mustard, he certainly could have saved
one mans lie, but he was deserted and left In
- helpless condition.