The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-06-15

w,Ich .,,i ,orc the marx salt ws.er, anu anu
wn,cn s'', u ~ sv s were wet with weepIns
90 " 49, ,wo,rssr.oId child, Dola, wiz "ss
,e va ~ . .wsy ram her Wills srugsMns ~
wssu .ws,a avs" She told Der story 10 trelnu'
, ous voice a srsoueutiy breaking INTO .aIs,
s,'a sa,r. q We were In our state'!oo. i
shan The hat struck; the shock wac -, ue, ~.
~ NJ" ,ho neor,Ie screamed, and inc ngn.s
,ven, ont We rushed into the caD'n BY, whe,e
men were Al work throwing Down 'nc'p pnd
servers from above. got boId OF ons, n" !,
made nv husband take II ana pucA'e ~
around him. Then be got ano'"e' "''
gave It to me; l held
"ruE CHILD IN ny ARMS
poor little thing, she didn't cry OF sere'"
- an. mat held her eyes wide open.
snran1 IN the deck first, and went uown
,nder the water: I had flung cnair over,
hoard IN hold on to; in rising cau2o. holu
Of the chair: then Edward lowered Tue
bahv down TO me and jumped oil himsell--
/, wave swept him of. There were people
all around ns struggling aud screaming anu
crying to God for help; the smoke ana
aames were rolling up from the Steamer,
Iicht,no IN the water with the dark neads
and forms of the people on 1t, some ciing-
iino to rnfts. some to chairs ana IIe,pre,
servers, oars-anytbing they couia get noiu
!oi. The water swept over me anu WIZ
down, holding on to the Daoy' ! ,o9o
again. Some one caught hold OF Tue Goal.
aud pulled it away so suddenly 'p"' 'o''
my hold OF
"POOR LITTLE DORA
and the waves carried her OIL. here tue
motber broke out sob5ing afresh.l On l
can never rest when / think OF It. conid
sec her hair drifting of, and couldn't reacn
II. though struggled like one insane.
drifted alongside Of mattress. Tnere was
man clingiDg to 1t. and the mattress was
borne slowly in toward the burning boat.
The flames made the man wild, and as we
got nearer he let go his hold and was sucked
i'm by the current, shricking, right ln'o Tue
blazing fire and smoke. 1t Vas horrible.
thought ny face would roast with lhe neat,
il was so intense. Just as i thought WAS
going to follow him the mattress swung
around little, and finally 1oated past tue
stern inst clear Of the fire. There was gen.
tleman floating alongside OF me on bed !;
he had his arms tightly elapsed around II
He looked up and tried to encourage me,
and said: 'The boats will come soon !;
you're getting along WE'LL thanked him,
though Pm sure | was so weak i couId
hardly keep hold OF the mattress. AT last
i saw
| "a LIFE-BOAT COMING
from the city OF New York. bad already
seen it going about picking up people, and
cried out as loud as could, 'Saye me save
mcp The young man who was standing
in the bow-God bless him saw me and
rowed up. He was nothing but passen-
ger. but he saved more lives than any other
haIi.dozen men put together. He directed
everything, and the men Obeyed him I'M
plicitly. One Of the rOwers was dragging
me out Of the water roughly, but he stopped
him and banded me in tenderly, and got
handkerchief from one OF the men (he had
used his own the same way befOre) and tied
il around my neck. and laid me on the bot
tom OF the boat. He saved three other peo-
pie, one OF them lady, Immediately after
He was from somewhere in Massachusetts,
! and gave me his name on card, but the
water washed it out. lie headed the FIRST
boat from the Stonngton, and il ii had not
been for him | believe there would have
been no boats put ont from her at all, and
her crew, like that OF the Narragansetf.
were so demoralzed. When this young
man saw
t"THE CowARDICE OF THE CREW,
and that none OF them would lower boat,
he threw off his coat and vest, gave his
money and watch TO man standing by, ana
said, sFve got wife on board here, but
III head the first boats crew; l can't see
these people drown; and he and one or
two others rushed to one OF the boats. This
shamed the Stonington's people into doing
something. A Ife-boat was lowered at last,
and the first 10 throw himself into 1t was a
drunken man. One OF the officers cut the
rope at the stem too soon, and boat and
drunken man tumbed into the water, when
Mr. N, the young gentleman from Massa'
chusetts, fshed him out TO begin with.
That was the first life he saved, and he
didn't save less than one hundred. III had
$4,000 would give il to him for what he
did that night. When he got back with the
last boats load OF saved he found the man
he had left his coat and watch with had gone
off, and he had to
&" CONE TO NEW YORK IN HIS sHIRT-sLEEvgs.
[ asked him for his name, and he gave
me this" Mrs. Mulholand displayed Il
paper-soaked card with tue letters FLAMES
n, CHI, Mass" just visible. The reverse
OF the card bore an advertisement OF c. L..
Parker's restaurant, No. AZ Causeway
street, Boston. Other enthusiastic passen-
gers, including several ladies, bore EN-.
phatic testimony to the bravery and devotion
OF the unknown young man from Massachu'
sets.
Another poor mother whose name IL I'M
known had her two children burned in her
stateroom while she went on deck TO dis
cover the cause OF the alarm. She turned
the KEY in the door before leaving them.
and was hurrying back when the smoke and
flames burst out in the saloon, filling the
apartment TO su1ocation. The agoniZed
woman endeavored in vain to find her
statcroom door in the smoke, and tried the
key in the lock OF several without success.
She tainted and was dragged out OF the
reach OF the fire by deck-hand. On board
the Stonington she had to be cared Tor by a
| doctor.
Description Of the Steamboats,.
The Narraganset and the Stonington were
sister boats, and two OF four steamers which
were built by William i. Williams, a mer-
chant OF New York, in 1866. They were
freight-boats, and intended for coasters, to
run between New York and Richmond and
Baltimore. Mr.. Williams becoming embar.
rassed was forced to sell the steamers, two
OF them being purchased by the Stonington
Steamship Company, and the other two go
inc TO China. The two purchased for the
Sound business were the Menatus, after.
ward the Narraganselt. and the Grampus,
| now known as the Stonington. The Nara.