Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-01-23

| She aDdS back In q minute aDtth guns ana
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low decks, and had we rushed out then
we could have pulled the matches on
and made them prisoners. / was for
doing so, but Captain Clark, who had
perhaps considered the possibility be-
| fore we fred a shot, pushed me back
and said:
"Don't lose your senses, Ralph. II
we had them all prisoners, we are not
strong handed enough to sail the bark. /"
OF that gang of men IS lay dead on
the decks, and in addition there were
three wounded men whom we let drag
themselves away. Two Of the dead had
axes, and two more had carried muskets.
We wanted to get these, and 80 we re-
moved the barricade from the door, and
| I was about to slip out when Mary Will
liams lodged past me and was back IN
minute with guns and axes She would
have returned for some Of the wicked
looking knives which had dropped from
the hands of the sailors as they fell, but
seized her arm and pulled her into the
cabin. 1t was high time, too, for con-
vict armed with musket had holsted
himself out of the forehatch and fired
at her, and the ball struck the casing o.
the door beside her head.
The position now was curious one.
We held the cabin and by means OF the
portholes could sweep the decks clean
to the eyes of the ship, and yet we were
prisoners. If we had been few men
stronger, we could have overcome them
while they were still in their panic, but
even to have stood guard over that
gang of villains running loose between
decks would have demanded the services
of a dozen men. 1t was no doubt the
wiser policy to be content with our ad-
vantage, though no man could predict
how the affair would terminate. For all
hour everything was quiet and not mu-
tineer showed his head. Then white
flag was hoisted above the forehatch,
and York hesitatingly came aft to de-
liver a message. We had hoped that
some Of our bullets had found him OF
Johnson or both, but it seemed that
they were untouched. 1t was noticeable
that York had lost his jaunty air and
looked very much worried as he ap-
preached us, and his voice had lost all
its impudence as he said:
Captain Clark, am sent to ask for
truce of half an hour, that we may
clear the decks of the dead. At the end
Of that time we shall have something
further to say to you"
As we wanted the bodies disposed OF
as badly as they did, no hesitation was
made in agreeing to truce. Three sail.
ors and seven convicts came up, and
with many a foul word and bitter curse
they proceeded with their work. Per.
haps it would have been expecting toe
much to suppose they would give the
bodies burial in the regular way, but
we were terribly shocked to behold
them lift up corpse after corpse and
heave them over the rail until the last
was gone. When this work was COM
pleted, one of them went aloft to search
E the sea for sight of sail, while the re-
, mainder, with the exception of York,
dived below. When the man came
q down and reported and disappeared,
| York came aft to say:
, Captain Clark, the blood of every
. man killed here today is on your head
If you figure that one defeat will turn
US from our plans, you are mistaken
n We will have full possession OF this