The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1886-08-21
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r copper became corroded and linet
with verdigris. The garments o
the prisoners hung in tatters arouns
their limbs. During the night tn,
groans of the sick and dying, Will
) curses poured upon their inhumaI
keepers, and with the intolerable
heat and the confined and pois
oned air, made sleep impossible
The dying frequently threw them
selves across their sick companions
who were unable to relieve them
selves from their dead burden
Dysentery, smallpox and yellow
fever prevailed in the su!focatine
cabins. No lights were allowed,
and death reveled in darkness The
rage of thirst during the night was
very great, and no sufficient supply
of water to assuage it, and when it
was supplied it was impure and
disgusting. When persons wild
with thirst and fever attempted
to ascend for water they were
pushed back with bayonets by the
guard, and sometimes as many
as twenty were wounded in night,
five or six of whom were found
dead in the morning.
A TERRIBLE SCENE
Occurred on board, the Fourth Of
July, 1872. Some of the prisoners
attempted to celebrate Indepen-
dence. Upon going on deck in the
morning they displayed thirteen
flags, representing the thirteen orig
inal States. They were pulled
down by the guard. They then
attempted to celebrate by songs,
speeches and cheers. They were
driven below at the point of the
bayonet and the matches closed.
They continued their singing be-
tween decks in the dark till about
9 o'clock in the evening, when the
guards went i'm among them with
lanterns and cutlasses. hacking and
wounding many of them, and then.
fastening down the matches, left
them in darkness through the long
and sultry night, without water to
assuage their thirst or light by |
which they might have dressed their
wounds. Ten corpses and many
wounded were found below next
morning. Two young men belong
ing to rifle corps were prisoners on
the old Jersey together. One of
them, the elder, took the fever and |
became delirious one night, when
leath was rapidly approaching, he
became calm, and lamenting his
ate that he must die without see
ng his mother, begged for a little
water. The brother entreated the
guard with tears to allow him
ome, but it was refused.
THE DEATH STRUGGLE
'ame on, when his brother offered
guinea for an inch of candle that
lie might see him die, and this, too,
vas refused. Over the dead body
he brother dried his tears and
owed vengeance if ever he regained
lis liberty. That liberty he gained
nd rejoined the army of Washing
on, and when the war ended his
life stock was filled with notchcs
the number of English
Ulcers and soldiers whom his I'M
rring aim had sent after his brother
o early graves. On the prison ship
'tromboli the prisoners, driven to
espair by ill-treatment, rose one
light upon the guard and several
'ere killed and wounded. The Cap
ain, who hal gone ashore, hurried
n board, when a poor fellow lying
n the deck and bleeding to death,
egged "a little water, for Gods
AXE" as he was dying. The Cap
ain held light to his face and
reclaimed: rs that you? I'm glad
cure shot. If l knew the man
hat shot You I'd give him guinea. ;
axe that. you - rascal" and
ashed his heel in the face of the
ying man.
The Chicago Tribune tells a pa
letic story of the eldest daughter
John Brigham Young. one of