The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-12-09

COS1yU PSoSS 'd01o 0ID0EnD8
Apparsd and tatstay ehsavlalS - -
Mo aoupsaAd q w&aosas - ellrSa1
-ss4eon6eeA 9neslmma.sees - -.
bsTa sssmsd - hsss subaoa -
nsut snd s6soun,s - thsy aou,l lAsana
seises being 0swsep brcsds6s 6owa.46aS
turned shS bow ot thsis boss .slssiakS
up.stseam, meantime ply1ns Gls6s<oessi
WIN dap1Ars snsrRJs In ~ soss~,s
hopsof gaining On thS mishayuursnf5
G0tA wsTo 6kiiiiioas oaEsm.n nd nj
rapid and powerful were thatf ssEokes'
that, for the space Of I've seconds. they
actually held the Light boat motionless.
as we could see BY aligning II with land.
marks ON the further shore.
But tho unequal strife could not last.
OF what avail was human muscle hsref
Foot by foot, stsrn foremost, but still
bravely pulling, they were borne down
the smooth shute, nearer and nearer 70
that first awful cascade, which sends its
spray heavenward almost In the centre of
the Rapids under edge.
Among the watching crowd on shore
were several women, and these broke
into anguished cries as they saw the lost
men heroically battling for life up to the
last hopeless moment.
Passionately, for the time bereft OF
reason, they appealed to US to save them.
but we could only groan in our i'm.
potence and await the end.
The poor boys did not cease TO row
until their little craft was on the curlin
brind Of tue dread plum re. Then bot,
reilnquished their oars, dropped to their
knees AMI covered their faces with the,r
haads. Brief space had they in which
10 pray; tor now the boat was eau rh,
by the writhing wall of water, tossel
hish in air, while the men still clunr t,
tlc cross seats, and thcn-oh, the horror
OF II! all were whirled over and over
and swallowed up in those cruel depth,
from which no human creature has ever
escaped alive.
Now for less painful scene.
on certain sum ner day, a young
woman, half crazed by terror, rushed
along the lower street of Chippew,
screaming. GOA, helpl help! helni
My little Jimmy's away out on the hi,
river, and he'll go over the fallsm
Instead OF jumping at once for boats.
a numcer OF men, as il doubling Mrs.
Tosa raa e de, d2w9 g. to aSa %hsss
ana there afioat on its surface in an old
boat, saw Jimmy apparently eninv;nr
',s rue out being gradually carriei |
outward and down stream.
it seems that the little, five -year-o,J
had beeh playing iu a sniil scoy.
me DOW OF which rested lightly on the
eacn, and had rocked it free Of ia
y to his great delight an aoatc
,.citly away.
Va The west bank Of Weland River.
'o'ut |oo yards above its junction with
ne Niagara, stood the house anil sboo
u joel Lyons, stout. muscular shoe.
maker and practiscd oarsmap. On
earIng the alarm given, this u,s,
'asted no time in Idle excla nations I'm,
an at once to where several boats were
'oored further up stream Sslectiny
nc already provided with sculls. he
prang into 1t and was away at full
peed before most Of the onookers had
objected their senses.
just at this moment arrived upon the
'ene and witnessed all that afterwarl
Now there are two entrances and exit,
aud from the Welland; one, known a,
iae Cut, being on the upper or west
oe OF an isolated blud, called Hog Isl.
ia' snd the other-the original chan.
'i-on the lower or east side.
III was from out this last .namej ma.
ge that the child had foated, and.
lsequently, he was much nemer t,e q
Ia than if he had emerged into the !
Ia cara from the Cut. Z,
il. ons, OF course, took the east chan. e
- but be had quite 400 yards of slack Il