The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-27
A PERILoUs POSITION.
A Young Woman's Experience in
Climbing Chestnut Tree.
From the Ne,o York Times

FROM the 4NelO OTN IlfpeS
NvAcK. Y. X, Oct ga thrilling in
cide,t occurred in the mountains 20 miles
.ou.h of this place to-day, and it will long
- .a,,e nhered " tho g who were the uu-
,annv PARTICIPANTS The season has been
tha hest one ever known for gathering chest
ms The crop icing unprecedent-
niy lar e. Besides the hosts of
nrrn and boys who have gathered.
bus el upon bushel OF Inc nuts; companies
iris and ytuag ladies' have also INDUCED
=, III. mort aad bean nearly as successful
IT, ,-o,in,, misses named Mary Amer and
7 Yin Carr, of Paterson, N j., the first
,sneI icing abcut Is years of age and the
other two years younger, came up on Satur-
dav last to visit friends about mile and a
baif from Nyack. They planned jolly
p,ornlug at an early hour they started out
~ the woods after chestnuts, each carrying
. bsg that would hold about a peck.
After wandering through well-worn paths
for n time without findinS many nuts, they
started for what is known as the South
mountain. where the country is wilder and
= travelled less. They decided when this
contain was reached to leave the patn
tboy we're following and strike out into the
dark woods After walking through
brambles and over rough rocks for
',narrer of an hour, Lulu said to her COM
nanion: There is a cunp of chestnut
trees, ard nobody has been here to gather
the nuts; just look" Miss Amer
Looked in the direction in which Lulu
n ,yGnt and replied: Eyes, we can
Pet our bags full there" The trees were
Tescned. and the girls found no trouble in
getting more than five quarts of the nuts
Which had fallen to the ground. 1t was
evident chat no one had before visited the
spot. for the tops CT two or three of the trees
I. lxaIf l,,-
Finally Miss Amer, the eldest of the two
girls. told her companion that as nobody
Else was around she was going to climb at
least part of the way mp the tree and thrash
out the burrs.
"Oh. don't you do it, Mary said Miss
Carr: ''you cannot get up in the top, and
besides yeu might fall and break your
| neck"
Miss Amer. however, was not to be dis
saded, and, preparing herself for her eff
fort, she began to 60 up in the tree, very
much against the wishes of her younger
friend She succeeded in getting a little
more than half way up, when suddenly
snail, dry branch upon which she stepped
broke under her weight. Her friend Lulu
looked up with horror, expecting to see
4 Mary fall to the ground. Miss Amer gave
4 loud screech when the branch broke, and
4 as she went over she threw her arms out
wildly in desperation. As she fell she went
down between two large branches and
caught by her arms, which kept her
from going to the ground, although
her position was a painful and a perilous
was one When Lulu saw her friend suS-
pended in the air she burst into a flood of
tears and screamed loudly for help. col
Mary will diel" cried the girl What
shall do? Finding that her cries for as
sistance were in vain, Lulu tried to con-
trive some plan by which to extricate her
friend from her terrible predicament. 1t
was evident to her that Mary was losing
strength every second. Seeing small
dead tree lying on the ground, she at
tempted to use it in some way to enable her
to get up where Mary was. Just then,
however, she heard the report of O gun
some distance away, and instantly gave a
succession of loud screams.
Almost the next second she heard some
one dashing through the brush, and mid
de-aged man, who lives in this region and
who was cunning in that vicinity, came in
sight. He did not want to be told of the
terrible accident, but as quick as flash he
darted for the tree It did not take him
long to reach the girl. and by an almost
superhufnan effort he succeeded In raising
her up and getting her on a thick branch.
He saw that her strength was nearly gone,
and babe her keep up her courage. With
great difficulty he assisted her to the
ground, when she tainted away, and it was
over an hour before she fully recovered her
consciousness. The gentleman accompanied
the ladies out of the woods, and IL is
probable that they will not go chestnuting
again this year.