Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-06-19


ring the evening he sat in Ills state room reading
Paire's treatise on 'The Age OF Reason" On
the ny-,eaf he wrote "lf 90 down with this
boat tonight should be ashamed TO have this
book fou0d with me were it not that | read II 10
refute its doctrines
MIR. Carpenter, brother-in-law of Mrs. Stilson,
the Atlanta @ ~ lady who lost her two children
states that he put life-pre;erver on Mrs. Slison
hy force, and then tried to lower her down 10 the
water, but she persisted in clingirS to the boat
and eudeayorng to get back Ga board. She w0s
finally pushed into he water and subsequently
picked up.
men and women chung to chairs, mattresses and
pieces of wood. Everything was u'ilized. ohe
threw out two mattresses and then quietly tosscu
his two children upon one OF them lhey Jay
quietly, and then he and his wifc secured the
other mattress and the family d,ated OF safely:
Another man put a life-preserver on his VIE aao
on himself, aud taking his child in his arms
leoped into the sea wave snatehed his chiio
away from him, but he seized the niue ole oy
the heel and threw it on a raft. Then ne he'peu
, his wife on the raft. CraZei by tue lanes,
woman about fifty yel:s old leaFed from tne
| hurricane deck and struck the lower deck on heI
! head and shoulders. She was carried away Cle
| man seemed 10 he rendered insane from 1riEht
With a wild yell he threw his child into inc wa
! ter Lis wife having jumped in before. :.
| Capt. Nye, OF the Stonington, which was Ia
| collision with the Narra garsett makes the Iol-
! lowing statement: "There was 4 dense log
around US so tEicI; that it was imposs BILE 10 see
! light one hundred yards away. In clear Wetth-
! er our lights are visible seven miles. we "cIe
! heading to the west, going, should say, ABOUT
/ half speed We passed within 80 yards OF tae
! Cornfed light but could not see it, the fog was
| SO Il lex. We knew its position ty the sound OF
the bel' II was h~tweeu three aud four ml,t9
west O: Corciield ligGthip, ard about four Mills
| from the Connecticut thOfe, where we STUCK.
our whistles were blowing twice a minute. and
we could hear those &C the Naragansett toirg
! the same could hear her Whistles distinctly
/ blowing ut least twice minute; passengers on
! the Narragauseit say that hCr whistles souudc l
! on'v at long intervals, from ten to twelve MN
| ut.s.) We didn't see the Narraga nseCS LIGHTS
rrtil we were say 200 or 300 feet from her.
! Whether che was shecriug 20 port or stGrhoard l
! cent say I was in the wheelhcuse with our
! pilot Sheffield; raug the hell to back the en-
, rircs instantly, and ordered the helm to be put
. hard tn port but before we coulG stop our head
way tho Ncrragarsetts bow swung in our way,
. and we struck.
TIE stonington came to New York Sunday,
! and wa placed on the dry dock at the foot 81
Pike street She came only To he repaired, ana
brought ueitlcr freight nor passengers. Her
! bows for nearly twenty feet at and ABOVE lue
wafer line are completely demolished, and to
prevent her from filing with water canvas
blankets had been mated over the hole. Her
/ stem piece was completely shattet d, and the
/ main deck leading back 10 the forecaste was
I twisted and torn W.
A passenger in giving a description of the
. scauc said: what terrified Inc most and COM
pletCly unDerved ma for a time was that young
| man V no stood close 10y me ard was clamOrou7
10 get on the Iiie-raft blew his brains out \
voice from The raft sid: IF you jump on thla
you will drown every woman and cllid III IT,. !
won't d. that the young man replied, but !
will do his and, placing the revolver to lis
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