The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-11-09
MIRACULOUS ENE APE
Miss Maude Roudebush Saved
Her Life by Her Voice.
THE GIRL TELL THE STOYR.
Her Awful Experience IN the
Water Under an Overturned
Boat. Details Of Disaster.

Boat. Details Of Disaster.
Miss Maude Roudebush, one of the
few passengers On the Atlantic Trans
port companys steamer Mohegan,
which was wrecked on Friday evening,
Oct. II, off the Lizard, arriyed here
recently on the Cunarder Etruria.
Miss Roudebush was met on the Gu
nard pier bya number Of her friends,
including her aunt, Mrs. Roudebush,
who as Agnes Ethel was well known on
the stage years ago.
Miss Roudebush has not yet recov-
cred from the terrible experience she
passed through on the night Of the
wreck. She saw her mother, Mrs.
Grandin, die in the water from injuries
she had suffered from the capsizing of
one of the lifeboats Miss Roudebush
is beautiful woman.
Professionally Miss Roudebush is an
operatic singer, her stage name being
Maude Roudez. In describing her res
cue Miss Roudebush said to reporter
of The World:
My escape was indeed miraculous.
For more than an hour and a half I
clung to the seat of an overturned life
boat, with my head between the water
and the bottom Of the boat a couple of
feet above me. My mother was gone.
and thought Of her loss more than Of
my own danger.
People told me afterward had only
been in the water an hour and half.
To me it seemed an interminable peri
cd, many, many hours in length.
when 1 look calmly back at it all
now l realize that my being alive to-
day is really due to the fact that my
voice is trained and that understand
how to make it carry considerable
distance. Otherwise | doubt if the res
cuers would have heard my cries for
help,
My mother, Mrs. L. Grandin. and |
left London in the Mohegan on the
18th and when the ship struck about
Z o'clock the next evening We had just
gone into the dining room and were
sitting at dinner
with the others my mother and l
left the table and started to go above.
But the stewards continued to serve
the dinner as calmly as if nothing had
happened.
Several Of the passengers had their
fears quieted by this and sat down at
the tables again. was preparing to
fellow their example, when one Of the
passengeas, Mr.. Charles Duncan, rushed
by me shouting, To the life-preserv-
ers.
''My mother and l went to the head
Of the stairs, where our staterooms
were when we were met by couple Of
the sailors. We had procured life-pre-
servers but did not know how to fasten
them to our bodies. The two sailors,
however, attached them to US. There
was still no panic on board.
"Then every light on the ship went
out. think this happened four or five
minutes after she hao struck. Then
we went out on deck with the others.
1t was rapidly becoming dark and the
scene, was terrifying.
s'We stood there nearly ten minutes
with the two sailors who had at first
spoken to US at our sides. | could not
see any of the officers, and in the noise
and hustle heard no orders given, but
two of the boats were launched.
"One of them had number OF sailors
in it. Just as the other was leaving the
ships side, Mr.. Pemberton, one Of the
passengers, threw his wife into the
boat, then he dropped his child after
her, jumping himself the next instant:
Mrs. Pemberton's maid made wild
leap for the boat and by miracle was
saved.
''The two sailor told US we had bet
ter get into one of the boats as it was
our only chance. They crawled into a
boat and we followed. They told us
that if the boat foated free from the
wreckage when the ship went down We
would be saved, but we had only been
there a few seconds when the sailors
crawled out, one Of them saying: My
God, we can't die like this, We must
try something else.
"Out on deck the scene was now ter
rible. People were rushing about crazy
with fright. The masts were black
with men, each one striving to get as
near the top as he could. l started with
my mother to climb one Of the masts,
hut when ! saw our two sailors start
for another boat VIC followed them.
'Many of the boats we're still un-
fastened and | saw no attempt to
launch them. The two sailors assisted
US into one of the boats. The deck
was now slanting badly and the sail
ors said the ship must soon go down.
In this same boat were Mr.. Duncan:
Mrs. Compton Swift, DR.. Fallows and
few others.
Zone of the men who had knife
tried to pass it to another so the boats
fastenings could be cut, but he was
so excited he lost it. For minute we
sat there waiting without knowing
what to expect.
"Then in an instant | felt wave
strike me in the face, the boat lurch-
ed, turned over and began to sink. |
went down and dnwn, and when | fl
nally came up | was almost uncon-
sious. | came up just under the up
turned boat, and in throwing my arms
about my hands caught hold of one Of
the seats. l never let go Of that
grip.
after awhile | rested my chin on
the seat of the boat and partially
rested my arms in that way. Near
me was old Mr.. Duncan. Every once
in while he cried out for help. Soon
his cries began to grow weaker, and
then they stopped altogether. | was
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