The examiner., 1886-03-27
A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
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back. where he was secured. Several un- successful attampts were made to mount or crawl from the tree to the horses back, in two of which he was precipitated to the ground with much pain. At length he suc- ceeded in gaining his back and as darkness had now set in, he urged the jaded animal forward allowing him to take his own course and trusting in Heaven to guide him out of the woods. With feeble and un- steady step the poor horse picked his way through the woods and at length came out upon the road over which General Wilson's cavalry had passed,-the line of March being marked by dead horses which had been abandoned by their riders and shet by the rear guard to prevent their being picked up by the enemy and recruited.
 This road Clark kept until it forked, when he took the left hand fork, but having proceeded for half mile or more and observing no dead horses or other marks to indicate that he was taking the right road, he determined to enquire at a house on the left which, although after midnight, was still lighted up. According ly he rode into the front yard and was met by a small dog which barked and snapped so viciously that the inmates were aroused and came out. In this house Clark received the most hospitable attention, and at day light was sent into the Union lines at Fort Powatan on the James river, in two
 wheel dump cart, the only vehicle in the neighborhood.
 The following is list of his wounds:-
 No. 1. Bullet entered and destroyed the
 joint made by the articulation of the first
 metatarsal and the internal cuniform bones.
 No.2. Entered on external side of ancle,
 just above Oscalcis, left leg.
 No. 8. Same as No. Z, except that the
 point of entrance is on internal side of ancle.
 No A. Entered three inches above No. No 5. Entered just below and to the right of the occipital protuberance. This caused fraction of the occipital bone. The point of fracture easily found. No 6. Entered left axilla passing up caused fracture of first rib and clayicle on left side, which are now joined as one bone,
 the extremity of the internal part of rib is | above and internal to the clavicle to which
 it is joined. The ball was removed from the right cervical region.
 No. 2. Entered just above and to left
 sacrum, passed up and to the right. Re l moved from under right scapula through ar | incision to the right of same. No. 8. External side of left thigh in the lower third. This wound caused much 1 sloughing.
 No. 9. External side of left thigh ir middle third, removed from same opening No. 10. One inch above No. 9, passed through splin.ering of fermer. No. Il. Entered posterior middle third l of thigh; removed from same opening. No. 12 Entered posterior upper third oi l thigh; removed from same opening. This
 wound is still open and discharging. No. 13. One inch above No 12. Stil open and discharging.
 | No. IA. Two inches above No. 13. Stil l open and discharging.
 No. 15. One inch to the right of No. IA open and discharging
 l No. 16. Left lower glutral region two | inches left of sixteen's line.
 | No. IT. Entered between left 3rd ane
 4th ribs, passing through left lung and re
 moved from point between 3rd and 4tl dorsal vertebra, two inches to left of lint l of spinous process. The wound has caused
 almost complete Repatriation of left lung.