The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-03-14

The Rowland girls occupied state
rccm IS, next to that occupied oy
ProfeSso, Bunker and bis family. Pro
fess"r Bunker atterward told OF hear
ing the girls address each ether IS
Lulu" aud Mabel" He saw them
in C. n13aay with young Eazz .rc, 9rs
:hougac nothing OF it at the time
$50 oosing them more acQUaintances,
ucn as readily spring up on any 'o;
ase.
rvGIrIyEs WERE CONSCIENCE sTklCh'
EN-
The early hours Of this trip were
spent unevenrfully enough. For nouls
tie gooa ship ploughed her way north-
ward or 3 fair SEA. Taen she encoun'
tered a hesry fog which, as a c!cse,
w4ite pail, entcl6ed her, ano from
ah;cn she was not freed until she vas
8 shaoeless wreck on tie cruel rang
Ike rocks that jut from Sea Blro
I Reef.
! AS the weather grew worse and the
sea rose to meet the wind with vain
outfe;incs, the Rowland girls were
con- pened to remain in their state
room OF the cabins Of the ship Their
misery must have been terrible to
to them. feeing as they were from
all they loved and held dear, and en-
barked, as both knew IL their con
scifncas, upon anything but a prem
ising or honorable course. Seas!ck,
cooscier c stricken, honesick eno
lonesome both bewailed their fate,
nor could the words Of encouragement
OF young Hazard, in scarce better
plight than themselves, rouse or rally
them.
To the three fugitives the nurk.-
insss and storm without found its
c, unterpa1t in the dread, uncertainty
oerplexiGy and fear which possessed
their hearts.
Yourg Hazard knew thatic taking
L .Iu from Los Angeles 50 that she
might not testify against against bis
tathe: be was committing not only g
civil but moral wrong as well. He
was forcing the girl TO &c far frt N her
i.one and friends. snd he knew not
what the future might bring forth as
a result. His offer and promise CT
marriage might even be broken
once far from danger Of pursuit he
knew.
MABEL Rowland felt that she had
sinned against her sister Ia entering
up u the Llo5 which was to force he7
10 marry a man for whom she cared
nothing. SEE even suspected that
hazard would not ksep mis- promises
out she had been dazz,sd by mis-, N in.
ner and persuaded by his arguments
to conspire against her sister. Then
She ranenbeTed how fa!Se she had
been to her father and mother in in
.ercs pting letters which had b5en
written them concerning Lulu ana
which heed0d in time might have pre-
vented ali OF this trouble.
As for Lulu, her grief and fear "a r
II ovsCwheined her. She bad deslr-
ed to face the der H;Zz I'd in cour;
to denounce him and to tell every
thing that she knew about him. ano
ISL how much she herself was tc
oiame, for berg acquainted with the
facts to which she had had been sui
poenad to testify. Sac was a fugi
tive fron justice, fleeing upln the
promise Of marriage to man for
whom she had do & f ction.
Lutte wonder, taen that when in
! black md0ight the stanch ship strucS
! the hidden reef sith fearful shock
then backed If into deep wafer and
pesan to sink, these three-H. II .r0,
NJ bel and Lllu Rowland PAL
s,-,tricken 5!hs thought OF death in
a measure ten fold greater than That
which snore toe other passengers anc
most OF the crew.
Hszz srd found the gi:ls in that
scsne If heartrending Confusion wheG
mother and bab5 were torn asunder
only 70 be engulfe6 in common death
a moment later in the black and boil.
ing water where husband and wife
Gied together, when the great waves
washed from the decks eac time they
broke over the struggling ship a score
Of human lives
Bazz I'd found the Rowland girls
sDd even above the roar OF the. storm
aooye tae shouts Of the Cthc=rs Of the
sinking snip as they gave their orders
above the yells Of men, the screams
Of women and the piJeous wailing OF
children, the voice Of bis conscience
accused him with being the nuderer
OF these girls for had il not b,eH for
hin they would never have left their
bones.
Even in those terrible hours those
woo escaped that experience say H2z
.rd and the two girls clu0g close TO-
gether. The swamptng OF Two Of the
steamers boats before they could be
CUT loose and the horror OF the cries Of
thirty or forty people drowning TO
yether so terroized the man and 1he
girls that they refused to even al.
tempt to leave the ship in the other
BOATS ard life RATS which followed
Together they faced pearh, and al
though they could DOT cheer or en-.
c, u;aee one another, they fought for
life sideby side with frerzy which
showed how they feared to die. As
the vessel sank lower aud lower In the
water these three and others left on
tae wreck by the waves climbed the
.igging. For houfs-hours almost
never. ending iE their excruciating
aeony-H zzlrd and Lulu and NJ .oel
Rowland b.ttled with the wiaj
fuugat with tie sea and struggled 10
resis5 thy cold t1a5 slowly OV=rc.ne