The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-09-23
Thrilling Story OF "a Wrsck.
AS TOLD BY MISS MORRISON, ONE OF TIE 81
VfyORS OF TIE ASII

ViNORS OF THE ASIA.
PERRY SOUND, ONT, September 2t.-
Miss Morrison, one Of the survivors OF tbe
Inflated Asia, has furnished sketch OF her
experience. After she left the wreck in a
llie-boat with the captain, male, and seye-
raj others, she says: 81 saw the other
two lifc-boatS, both full. The captain and
mate had oars, and tried TO take care
OF our boat. The steamer now went
down and left wrcckage floating all
around. | saw the other two boats
upset twice, and each time the num-
ber OF passengers was largely reduced. The
three boats drifted together for short
time. | heard those in the other boats call
TO the captain for oars. One Of the two
boats had no oars, one had one, and our
| boat had two. The captain could spare
none. Our boat went along quite nicely
for some minutes. The others capsiZed
almost Immediately. They had nothing TO
| help themselves with. | was sitting i'm the
bow OF our boat, looking back toward the
wreck. | saw the other two boats tin over
| three times, and when | next saw them
they were empty, no one Clnging to their
| sides. ! am sure none were saved except
/inkiS and myself. Finally our boat
upset. and we lost both oars. We
were then at the mercy of the waves,
and were upset four times in all. There
were eighteen persons in the boat be-
/ fore she upset. Two women were lost the
| first time. Ii became calmcr near dark, and
the boat dId not upset again. About this
| time we picked up Il floating oar, but were
| too exhausted 10 Use it. The mate told me
| to hold on TO the lifeline, whatever hap
pened, and | never let 90. v hen the boat
upset hung on and came up with it. None
Of the five men died anti after daIh The
mate got upon his knees and gai1 he could
see land. This checrcdus all. The captain
seemed very sad and seldom spoke. None
| had hats OT coats on but ZinkiS. Ihad nei-
| (her hat nor shawl. WeNerc all in the Wa
ter up to our knees, but the water was not
upto the seats. II we had had baiinS-dish
we could have bailed ont the boat after the
sea went down, but we had nothing to do
il with. The men all died quietly, and
seemed to 70 to sleep. The mate put his
| head up 10 my face in the dark and asked
il il was l.. said yes. Ny hair was fly
| Ing around. He seized it in his death-grasp
and pulled down my head
Il asked the captain, who was near, to
release my hair. He did 50, and the mate
soon brcathed his last. We saw light at
| Byng Inlet about dark, and could see II all
night. but drifted south. Shortly after the
mate died the captain laid down; tried TO
arouse the captain, but he was dead. j
think this was about midnight. Mr.. Zln-
| ks and kept up conversation. ! was
nervous and feared that /inkis would lay
down his head like the rest. | asked nm TO
come to the bow, but he said we would
! balance the boat better by remaining
A. we were, and that he would
not 20 to sleep. Daylight finally dawned
and revealed a Sporc near by. /lhkir
worked the boat toward the shore WIN tho
oar we had picked up. II was bcaulhul'
warm morning, and the sun warmed IT,
and dried our clothing. We got on th'
rock, shortly after sunrise. we lr'eu 10
walk across the island, thinking we mighl
find some houses. could not walk, so we
returned TO the boat. LlnklS loon tn'
bodies out. | could not help nm. nc
then pricd the boat oil with the oar n'
worked the boat down the beech, plt hau,
moor bcadway. Darkness coming on,
wa, afraid it would get roush; we
landed, broke boughs for our beu, anu
nut some under and some over Us. Sitp'
some, but was nervous we were up po
fore sunrise and got into our boat. IL wa,
calm then. We rOwed short tilhc, D''
then cave it up and went ashore ana II!
down on the rocks and went to sleep. al
indian came along and woke us up ano
asLed lis il we were lost. We SAID we
We're. His squaw was in a boat. We asked h, 2
him how far il was to house. lie saio !. -, l
WAS ,, twcntv-two miles, and asked il We
were hungry. lie then got some bread ,
and and nork from his boat. | could moi
oat %" hut drank some cold tea. Zlnkl'
o,TsreG & tbe Indian his watch TO take Us to
parry sound We had but little to eat OF o!
tbe way. The squaw made me peu u, !,
the boat, and slept there sunday n'gn' ,n
ouite comfortably. links never gave Tp ny,
Went ON saturday morning, when we IA!
down on the rocks to die. thoughl o o
the babes in the woods, but saw no hop'
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