The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-09-29
THE ASIA DISASTER.
Miss Morrison's Stor,

MISS Mofr1Son'S Story. 5sf
In the Coroner's investigation at Parry
Sound, Miss Christy Ann Morrison, the only
ady survivor of the wreck of the steamer
ASIA testified as follows: x8i 8m5s33ns
I'got up on Thursday morning feelingsyerry
seaslck. IT. was pretty rough all the morn
ng. think. that about II 0cl0ek the first
animation [ had Of danger was from the
loise made by the horses. I asked the mate
there was any danger He said they had
&lready thrown off the horses, and would
hroW of what freight they conla. then
Vent back to my hertz, aid the boat rolled
20 much 60 one side that l got life-pre-
'erver and put it on Half an hour, possibly,
lad elapsed between the first idea | had of
tanger and my putting ON the life4preserver
after putting on the life-preserver / sat by
he cabin door until the water came into the
adm. Then by catching hold of the cabin,
1Qor and railing i managed to get on the
upper deck of all. The boat then seemed to
'e settling down, one side being much the
lndermost The life-boAt happened to be
lose to where got to.
l lowered myself Into the water
md the Captain caught me and held me
rom sinking till the mate came and helped
ne into the boat At that time there were
WE'VE in the boat / did not know any in
he boat except the first mate and a Miss
McNab, my room mate. A number Of people
rom the other boats came into our boat.
The reason why they came into our
BOAT was that they upset. The
,eason why they upset was the rough
less of the sea They did not seem over
srOWded One reason that they upset was
hat they had NOT a sufficient number Of
oars. One OF the other boats had one, an.
pther had not any, ours, had two. The rea-
son / know they had so few oars was
hat they came alongside Of our
boat and asked the Captain If we had
any to spare. | did not see any
oefson left on board the steamer after we
eft the ships side The boats ran along
jogether for little, then the other two up
set They upset three times Every time
hey righted few were missing. The third
line did not see any one clinging to them
1T all. / only saw, two boats beside our own.
Six of the passengers of the two boats came
nto ours About twenty minutes afterwarl
our boat capsized. She'righted' Iheld on to
The ropes, or hfe-lines going round the boat,
20 that when she righted was in again.
After we righted heard some one say three
were gone We then sailed or drifted before
Che storm Our boat capsized three times.
Each jlme some We're missing [ did not
notice any one to be hurt on the boats right
ing except the mate, who had gotta scratch
below his eye. After our number was re
duced to seven the boat did not eapsize any
more 1t was because the storm moderated
chat we ceased to capSiZe The last capsiZe
took place shortly before dark. Before dark
che mate said he saw land, and after dark
we saw lighthouse which, the mate said
vas Bying Inlet light When we saw the
light all cheered up considerable, but soon,
after one of the Strangers died, name lln-f
Known. The only members of the crew that
knew IN our boat were the Captain and
nate After the stranger died two others
lied almostimmediately together They lust
>eemed to perish They did not seem to have
ustained any internal injury. / did not
lear them complain OF any injury. About
midnight the mate succumbed and about
ten minutes after him the Captain died 3
Tho person / have called the mate was
named John Mcdonald, who was a second
,ousin of mine. The person 1 have called
captain was named John Savage,
aptain of the steamer Asia. at
he time they died the sea was
Iuite calm, and the wind was moderate.
shortly after daybreak I and Mr.. Thinks
anded The bodies were still in the boat
after landing we drew the boat onshore and
walked along piece, and, finding we could
not walk, we returned to the boat, and Mr.
Thinks took the bodies out of the boat and
aid them on the island We then got into
6he boat again, and rowed along5with an oar
we had picked up (having lost our oars when
we capsiZed) to find place-a habitable
place That was the last [ saw of the
bodies. I know that we left the bodies Of
John Savage, John Mcdonald andth other
men on the island on which we first landed,
On the following friday night we slept on
the rocks Next morning we again got into
our boat and rowed until, in despair, we
gave up. We went ashore again, laid down
and slept Then the Indian came along, ard
we engaged him to bring us here.