The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-15
Her Fearful journey.

nSH rcdAIuI JOuruey.
81 must have fallen and risen many
times, for my wrapper and cape were
muddy and the condition of my slip
pers and garments indicated the many
miles of rough road had Travelled.
All of this was in a daze, half
conscious mental condition from which
/ found it impossible to revive myself
When full consciousness did come it
was breaking day, and 1 recognized
that I was in Lincoln Park then ran
all of the way to my home and tried
to get in the front door, but / could
not arouse anyone. l was afraid of
knocking too loudly, for fear of awak-
enins the neighbors, and they would
see my terrible condition.
In going about the house I found a
cellar window loose, and this 1 opened
and crawled in. 1t let me in on top of
the coal in the bin. l found myself too
weak to climb over the partition into
the cellar proper, from where I could
easily have reached the living rooms
was SO exhausted and tired that could
not rise from the coal, and lay there
until 1 again lost consciousness.
Frequently / regained consciousness,
and each time / tried to get out of the
bin, but l was always too weak to do
SO. Finally | tried to scream, and L
was terrified to find that l could not;
that 1 could not make noise above
whisper.
Heard Children Playing.
over me ! heard my children play.
ing on the floor; L could hear their
voices. And several times 1 could hear
my husband and my brother apparently
discussing my strange disappearance
and telling where they had been in
searching for me and what they had
DONE There l lay, unable to utter
sound to attract their attention.
Tuesday night, Wednesday and
Wednesday night seemed like centuries
in passing Thursday heard THE
EVENING STAR reporter come to the
house and talk with my brother-in-law
about my disappearance, and heard
my brother-in-law searching through
the trunks zad oeaer things for my
photograph for the newspaper. tried
then so hard to scream--I didn't want
my picture in the paper-and I did so
want to see my husband and my little
babies. But 1 could not utter a sound
"There was only one ameliorating cir
CQilSldIltt III Liz l4oCouS LieASCQA. anu
that was that I knew my childsaE were
alive and we'll. But l did so want to
hold them. to kiss them, and to again
be with my husband. The intense, over
whelming sympathy I felt for my nus
band i'll his grief over my disappear
ance and the inspiring and yet useless
desire l had to relieve his terrible sus-
pense can never be described.
saved ut Last.
"When he came into the cellar yester
day to get several days supply of coal
[ did try so hard to move and 60 !
scream. knew / was getting weaker
and weaker all the time and that I
could not long survive without food. |
But I could not move, ncr did my |
1ercest attempt at scream amount to |
whisper AS ne shoveled the coal
through the opening at the bottom of
he bin I felt myself falling with the
coal and some of the chunks came
down on top of me.
my salvation came when the torn
lem of my wrapper came out of the
opening with a shovelful of coal. My
husband saw the fragment, peered over
he partition of the bin and saw me.
was saved"