Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-07
DEATH ON TIE OCEAN.
Dreadful Pictures Of Human FOrtitude and
Anguish.

Dreadful Pictures OF Human F"rtitude and
London Telegraph.
"A terrible memorial OF the recent dread
full loss of the steamship Navarro was
fished up few days ago by smack,
whose people found in their trawl the
bodies of q man and woman tied together,
with their eyes bandaged. Probably the
mysterious deep never yielded up secret
more shOckingly suggestive than these
corpses. Whether the man and woman
were q married couple, or sweethearts. or
brother and sister, We know not but
their bodies, fastened together i'll death,
tell moving story of devotion, just as
their bandaged eyes convey most pa
thetic picture Of resolution and anguish.
In the wreck OF the Cimbria it will be re-
membered that the survivors spoke oil
seeing some of the emigrants at the last
moments cutting their thrOats to shorten
the final struggle Most narratives OF
disaster ut sea contain passages OF this
kind, telling how those who seemed OF 4
shrinking and timid nature when all was
we'll stood forth most noble and perfect
types of heroes when danger was supreme;
how the swaggerer, the bully, the tyrant
proved an abject cur, casting himself
down upon the deck in his terror, alter
nately praying and shrieking in the agony
of his fear !; how some, unable to await
the approach of the last moment, de-
stroyed themselves, while others, with
folded arms and contracted brows, stood
motionless upon the sinking hull, gong
to their death like men lost in thought.
One of the most pathetic stories ill the
language is the account of the loss OF tho
I'D: hvy fira in 12O., Fnp
the reason that a hundred particulars are
introduced by the writer relating to the
behavior of the people when all hope was
abandoned, and death seemed inevitable.
We read of the little children who, when
the flames had mastered the ship, and all
was uproar and horror on the deck, con
tinued to play as usual with their toys in
bed, or to put the most innocent and IN
seasonable questions to those around
| them - of a young military officer re-
moving from his writing desk 4 lock OF
hair, and placing it in his bosom, that he
| might die with that sweet keepsake upon
his heart of another writing few linz
] to his father and enclosing it in i bottle,
1" in the hope that it might eventually
reach it's destination, with the view, as he
stated, of relieving him from the long
wears of fIuitless anxiety and suspense
which our melancholy fate would awaken"
of the older soldiers and sailors seating:
themselves over the fore hatch under
which was the magazine, 80 that they
might be instantly destroyed when the
powder caught fire; Of towards drinking
themselves insensible or writhing i'll their
terror upon the decks of young girls
praying calmly amid a kneelin2 crowd
of brave men standing collectively with
their eyes on the setting sun, whose light
they never hoped to sea again. 1t is i
wonderful and thrilling picture. and how
often has it been repeated since in othe,
ways and amid other seas The last is not
Indeed, the worst, but it is among the
worst. The Nayarre is but one of score
of ships which have gone to their doom
Offering before they took the final plunge,
the most dreadful of all pictures of human
anguish but the suffesings she embodied
seem to survive yet, even in her dead, whe,
we hear of those two corpses tied together
coming to the surface, with their eyes
blindfOlded, and when we endeavor u
realize by those devoted silent witnesse
from the bed of the ocean something o
the terror and the resolution, the fear, tn
courage, the wild despair and the passion
ate supplication to heaven which made u
the picture of that al Of all other wreck
, of similar nature.