Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-07-01
AsCeNeTeRRIBLE TO CONTEMPLATE,
BEN EATH THA WAVES.
Fatal Accident to a Yachting Party

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capsizing her, and five of the party were
drowned. Their names are as follows:
II. NJ. Johnson, aged twenty, entry
clerk in f.. VI. Beniamin's silk import
ing house, Nos. 20 and % Green street;
VIM. Sealy, aged fourteen, errand boy
in the same house; Eddy Herman, aged
twenty, bookkeeper in the shipping
Office No. Bowling Green; Wm. Ed.
mondson, aged eighteen, ship broker;
Miss Fannie Campbell, residing on
West Tenth street. Those who escaped
were: NJ. Tompkins, sailing mas
ter at Brooklyn; W. K Palmer, salesman.
Mr.. Palmer gives the following ac'
count OF the disaster: Before ii began
to blow a little preliminary shower OF
rain fell Alter the rain had fallen the
wind suddenly sprang upon the star.
board quarter and IN flash 1t shifted
from north 10 west and came down
on us with full force,
Lifting the Yacht Clean Out Of the Water
and beating the sea into milk-white
foam. had been telling Miss Camp
bell that in case OF an accident to keep
by my side but not to choke me. |
am a good swimmer. The first burst
OF the suuall came like a roaring can
non, and it was impossible Tor one hear
his own voice. The sight of the sea
was simply appalling. 1t seemed to
change the water into iroth and foam,
1t was
Blown Into Sheets and Cataracts of Spray
and Foam,
and rolled up against the yacht like
breakers on the lee shore. A mighty
gust OF wind swept our trembling yacht
down into the rough sea and for mo-
ment all seemed lost. Wave after wave
rolled over us. Miss Campbell, who
had hold OF my arm when the boat
dashed upon her beams end, lost her
grip and
Down She Went Into the Boiling Water.
She was near-sighted and having lost
her glasses when the wind first struck
us, she seemed bewildered, and | sup
pose she could not see one OF us who
might have been near her. We were all
thrown together in a heap at the first.
Then we separated and in lew minutes
the Yacht settled down, but did not
sink. At once a
Sulphur - ongth
seemed to cI-te to me, and seeing Miss
around the waist and shoulders and
lifted her clear out OF the water to
boom, where she clung for a moment,
Than Tho hnnt Gnnk down
ont OF sight and we were all atlOat, with
4 second gale blowing up with heavy
thunder. The yawl was ahoat but was
bottom up, and | swan to her with Miss
Campbell on my back. put my hands
on the little vessel for support, but 1t
soon went down as it was attached to
the yacht by long line. When 1t sank
[ went under the water few feet, and
Miss Campbell let go her hold. | thought
| could keep her aflpat, but at this crit.
iCal moment
The icy specks dashed into my face un.
Ill | couldn't see loot before me. |
heard Edmondson calling for an oar. !
looked around for one but there WAS
nothing oi the kind allOat. While was
looking Johnson and EimondSOn went
down without cIy. Meanwhile Miss
G.. was lying OH her back being support
ed by her clothing. / couldn't see her
but could hear her moan and cry out:
"Oh Lord. Help Me-"
and then her voice would die away. |
searched in the darkness and hail Tor the
poor girl, but | couldn't find her. Final
In oil nuainSt
an ice box. got hold OF it and as was
fairly rested on it | looked and in the
gloom Il saw the face OF Sealey, he
boy,
All Pale and CHASTITY.
| saw his blackened lips open. but not
word he said reached me. 1t might
have been prayer. AS he disappeared,
| saw Miss &. on wave about twenty
rods away. | pushed away from the ice
box and struck out for her, but when
reached her and called her by name,
her eyes protruding from her head and
her face discolored and very ghastly, it
appalled, me. She was dead and as
Cold as the Ic. that was mlling With the
Rain.
Bv this time | was so numb that could
hardly swim, but managed TO get back
to the ice box. | saw the sailing master
coming towards me. He asked me what
was supporting me, and | told him, ami
he swan forward but when we both g t
on it, it was impossible to keep from go
ing under.
The hail was Something Fearful.
1t is no exaggeratiOn to say that the
pieces seemed as large as pigeon eggs.
While We were on the box We heard
cry and then saw Eddy. He was floating
on hatch and he cried, "Ain't this
awful" He begged me to help him get
off his clothes. tried it, but my own
clothing had gotten loose at the waist,
nv belt came off and my trowsers dan
gled around my heels so that it was i'm.
possible to reach him. Soon after this
Lot consciousness,
but TompKins held me to the box, and
when came 20 my senses was on the
schooner Senator, Capt. Bansey, from
Maine. They had picked Us up as an,
other terrific squall was coming on, and
they rolled me on barrel for an hour,
they said, before | came to life. The
captain ran a great risk IN sending
boat for us. The crew did not see us.
but were guided to US by the cries OF
TOmpkins, who hailed the schooner and
saved nv life. | should say that Just
before last had consciousness We saw
tug half or three.Quarters OF a mile
away. but they did not hear Us. or at
least they
Paid No Attention TO Our Cries.
and they steamed away to the eastward.
We lost everything We had.
Jail Delivery.
PIrrSurRG June 50-A dispatch
from Uniontown, Pa, says that eight
prisoners confined in the county Jail