Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-04
A Wonderful Escape.


gated by civilized people, especially for
the last century, has she swallowed up
large numbers of human beings by snip
wreck, by fire, or by other casualties,
and while many bodies are recovered,
there are hundreds that are never found,
and many that float ashore that are new
er identified.
Captain Gilman Appleby, of Con-
neaut, Ohio, was captain and part
owner of the Schooner New Connecticut.
An aunt of his, then residing at. Black
Rock, below Buffalo, went to Conneaut
to visit her brother there. After re-
naming for some time, she became ex-
ceedingly anxious to get home. captain
Appleby endeayored to dissuade his
aunt from taking the home journey I'M
til he should be going out with his yes
sci, when he would take her home. His
efforts in that direction, however, were
unavailing, and he had to take her on
board the schooner to 60 to Buffalo IN
charge of the crew. :,
EVERYTHING passed off quietly until
after the vessel had passed Erie, when
sudden squall struck and rolled her
upon her side, when she nearly filled
with water, but continued to float.
The crew loosening the vessels yawl
jumped in and pulled for the shore,
leaving the woman in the cabin, as they
supposed drowned. The party landed,
and made their way as best they could
back to Conneaut.
Three days after the accident Captain
Wilkins, of the steamboat William Pea
cock, in coming down from Detroit
was besought by Captain Appleby to
board the wreck if he it, and II pos
sible to get the body of his aunt out OF
the cabin and convey it to Buffalo.
Captain Wilkins discovered the disabled
vessel drifting down the lake, and, after
coming alongside, the first mate OF the
Peacock boarded the wreck and made
search. The schooner lay upon her
side, and, to all appearances, was full
of water. A pole was employed, and it
was supposed every part of the cabin
was touched, and the conclusion was
reached that the remains had foated
out of the cabin into the lake; hence
further search was given up,
Two days afterward Captain Appleby
came down with vessel and facilities
to right the schooner and tow her into
the nearest port, the drowned woman's
son being along to assist in the recovery
of the body The vessel was finally
riwhted, and when the cabin door had
nearly reached a Jewel position, the
woman walked through the water and
came up stairs upon deck.
She was caught by Captain Appleby
and supported, while her son wept and
the sailors screamed Five days and
nights she had been in the water, while
| a portion of her time she was up to he1
arnapits. She could not lie down, and
what sleep she got was in that position,
and all the food she had was solitary
| cracker and raw onion, which 1oated
on the water.
She stated that after the vessel cap
sized and was abandoned by the crew,
she found herself alone in water waist
deep. The cabin door was open, but
the flood was two feet above it, and the
sea made constant changes in her posi-.
ton. When Captain Wilkins stopped
she could hear the boarding party tall
and walk on the vessel, and although
she used her voice tie its utmost to at
tract attention, she could not make
them hear. She saw the pole thrust
into the cabin door by Captain Mention
and asked if she should hold on to il
and be pulled out, but no answer came
the captain hearing no other noise thar
the splashing of the water, and having
not the remotest idea that the woman
was there, alive or dead