The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-08-09
Miss Elsie Morgan, Who Alone OF
Twelve Escaped Death.
TELL AWFUL STORY
OF Her OWE Experience On the Trading
Schooner Olympia. Her Narrative
OF Horrors Discount the Bloody
Deeds OF the Seventeenth
Century Buccaneers.
Century Buccaneers.

Miss Elsie Morgan, sole survivor
among the Twelve passengers anc
crew Of tie British EooouraS trading
schooner Olympia. who saw every
other soul On board butchere6 By one
gigantic negro buccsnee-, has SO far
recovered from the shock pIodCcsd by
those scenes as TO &c able to give DE-
tailed statement Of this outrage,
which transcea6S in horror the cruel
est deeds Of the o.d West Indian pi-
rates.
Miss Morgan still lies physically
suffering at El Proverno, in British
Honduras, whittier she was taken oy
rescuecs, wnc found her, half cenea5-
ed, wandering ca the reach to wnlch
she had svun after the black oucca-
neer lad leit her toc dead in the va,
ter half nile IRON shore. Fer story
the first and only cls SIZE has ted
which is sent herewith, Invests the
facts already published throughout
the world with tragic pictu-esqueness
possible only il tie s;assmenU G. an
eve -wienssS-acG, IL this case, Of z
girl Who, through al that awfu:
night CT July !, knew that see herself
was designed fer = fate worse than
death.
The facts lss6ire Up to the begin
ming Of Miss Mors&ls S narrative are
these: The ltoie trading schooner
Olympia, plyiEg between the isla1d
OF UEiila ard Truxiiie, twenty-five
miles away OF the Honduras main
land, had been iyiI 6 at its iSla1d pier
for several 6aysioaalng with nerchan-
disc for coast p icts. Il was quite
generally kaowG tnat the captain had
on board cc1s;Sls Slsrahls sun C money
in ecl6, with which he was to buy
cattle On tie na:2:an5. This amount
was only Ihe sou r2l@nt CT about S10C
in United States cDCzeccy, but in tbs
minds ot negro laocrers acout the
pier it assumed fabulous proportions.
One o. these was 2 gigantic Specl-
men usned Rooert McFie-d, well
known TO al tie Island Inhabitants.
He was mere than usually veil ecu,
Gated fer cae OF his race ard Tore
fsir reputation. ct dusk on Jnne 80,
after tie captain, accompanied by
the mate, had thoroughly inspected
the Schooner ard crew 70 be sure that
no suspicious character YVES aboard,
the little vessel, with twelve souls
aboard, threw cf It's lines and dropped
Quietly out Ct tie ta1boS, for Truxille
In bis colfessi3l, made as he was
about to be hanged, McField tells
how. before the sch5o.er vas out Of
the harDor, he coweG cut 70 her IN the
darkness, clnbs6 ab ard uunoticec
and corceale6 himself IN the hold.
armed with g wirctestes rife and
revolver. While the hurly negro
skulked oe!ow waiting tor a p1opitious
moment to put bis mucderouS plot in
to execution, these passengers anc
members CT tie crew we're on deck
under TIE brilliant tropical SKY, un.
conscious OF danger:
Miss Elsie MozSan, Utilla.
Walter Rose, aged % years, Utiia
Indiana Rose, his wife, aged 2(
years, ,Utiila.
Six-Eeeks cid baby Of Mrs. Rose.
Utilla.
Adela Boa6en, twelve years old
Utilla.
Captain White Bush, aged forty
master OF tbs O.ynpis, Lynn, Mass.
Van Wick Hydes, aged thirty eight
years, mate OF Olympia, Bay Island.
Nelson Bod5en, sailor, UGills.
Deton Nickerson, sailor, aged thir-
ty.two years, Connecticut.
William Godfrey, sailor, aged TWEEN.
ty-fve years, Bay Island.
Amos --, negro c9ok.
At 10 O'Clock IN the evening, when
about four niles out from the island,
all went balow excspt Hydes, the
mste, ard Boddsn, who was at tie
wheel. Miss No-gan's narrative fol
lows: