Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-09-06
THRILLING ADVENTURES AT
STONE MOUNTAIN.
Little Girl Suspended over a
I,5O0-FOOt Chasn.
atlanta CONSTITUTION.

SFONE MOUNTAIN, Aug. 29.-Ou
usually quiet village was thrilled
with an excitement yesterday even
ing that blanched the cheeks o
| Women and paralyzed the arms o
men for awhile.
Mrs. w. G. Jones, of Augusta
who has been spending the summer
with her children at the Jossey
House in Decatur, came here yes.
terday to go up on the mountain
and enjoy the view for the last time
preparatory to going back to her
/ home in Augusta. The children
were enthused and delighted at the
trip, running hither and thither
through groves of cedar, and mount
ing the heaps of boulders piled up
in fantastic shape.
Unnotieed, little Emma, a charm
ing fairy creature of some ten wears
of age, had wandered off and could
not be found. Itwas near the north
side, with its perpendicular descent
OF over l 800 feet, and hearts almost
ceased to beat, palled by the fear-a
horror that creeped through the
frame and ran through the marrow
ike wire of cold steel-that the
bright eyes and fairy form of the
fair Emma was pulpy mass at the
foot of the mountain. To intensity
this horror, the sun was rapidly de-
clining in the west, and soon night
would close in on the scene Parties
in the valley, on the north side of
the mountain, saw, however, the
child way up the "mountain side,
bleak and bare" clinging to the
crevices with a tenacity truly re-
nlarkable. They shouted to her to
'thOld on'' and relief would come.
She took in the situation and held
on while she called out for assistance
In the hope that her mother and |
sisters might know where she was. |
The news spread like fire ia broom
sedge field, and a large crowd soon
gathered on the mountain. The
first chill of horror was succeeded
by fever of excitement to rescue
the darling one, lest by some un-
guarded movement she might lose
her slender hold and fall to certain
heath. And now came a moment
with intensest interest.
The point where little Emma was
odged was over one handred feet
rom the top, with a perpendicular
all of some fifty feet just above her..
md fifteen hundred feet or more
below her. She was resting on a
larrOw ledge of rock scarcely large
enough to hold her; in fact, she
her position by thrust
ng her fingers in the crevices among
he lichens growing there. Few
nen cared to venture down. Mr..
ieorge III, Goldsmith, however,
Ired by noble desire to rescue the
hid from certain death, was let {
.OWn by means of the rope. Slowly
he rope is rolled off; eyes watch
very movement with intense
and hearts throb wild
nd fast as young Goldsmith de s
cends. A pauSc-a thrill-as he I
caves the rock and seems to be in I
AT last he spies her; he i
caches her; with a convulsive c
rasp she seizes hold upon him, and 8
G signals to ascend. Hands now t
1ork with frenzied activity; pray t
rs ascend from aching hearts that ]
ne rope may hold out eyes and
carts are strained to. their utmost Q
ensiOn until sight of her is caught. i
At last she is brought in safety to r
he top. A wave of satisfaction t
reaks over the multitude, breaking n
ut in higher wave of rejoicing as O
ne is clasped in the fond embrace u
loving hearts. Then ascended to r
le Most High Inscriptions of praise /
ON thankful hearts for the rescue t,
the child, and petitions for the a
chest benigons on her youthful res p
leF. t
Emma states that while strolling p
1oqt she slipped and fell to the y
1int where the ledge stopped her ii
escent, and in her efforts to protect d
arself she grasped the creVice of d
le rocks as stated. To let go was a
fall, and she held on. a