Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-08-05

Mr.. Wyatt, you are mad. 1 cannot listen to you. Sit down.
/ say, or you win swamp the boat stay-hold him-seize himl
He is about to spring overheard There, i knew i'll lie is osar.ra8
AS the captain said this Mr.. Wyatt, in fact, sprang from the
boat and, a we were yet in the lee of the wreck, succeeded by
almost superhuman exerion in getting hold of a rope which
hung from the fore chains. In another moment he was on board
and rushing frantcaily down into the cabin.
In the meantime we had been swept astern of the ship ana,
being quite out of her lee. were at the mercy of the tremendous
90 whicb q stu running We made a determined effort to
put back. but our little boat was like a feather III the breath O
the tempest. We saw at a glance that the doom OF the unfor-
tunate artist was sealed.
AS our distance from the wreck rapidly Increased the maamah
Cor as such only could we regard HIM was seen to emerge from
tbn comnanion wav. up which by dit of a strength that APP
peared gigantic, he dragged bodily the eblong box While we
gazed in the extremity of establishment he passed rapidly several
turns of a three inch rope first around the box and then around
his body. In another instant both body and box We're in the sea,
disappearing suddenly at once and forever.
upon the spot. At length we pulled away. The silence fenaaiaea
inbroken for an hour. Finally l hazarded a remark:
Ibid you observe. captain, how suddenly they sank7 was not
that an extremely singular thing? l confess that l entertained
some feeble hope of his final deriverance when l saw him lash
himself to the box and commit himself to the sea"
"They sank as a matter of course" replied the captain. ana
that like a shot. They will soon rise again. however but not
till the salt meIts" So.
Hush" said the captain, pointing to the wife and sisters Of
the deceased. 1--WE must talk of these things at some more APP
propriate time"
We suffered much and made a narrow escape, but fortune
befr4ended us as well as our mates in the iongboat We landed,
In fine. more dead than alive. after four days of intense distress.
upon the beach opposite Roanoke island. We remained here .
week, were not ill treated by the wreekers' and 1t length Cd
tanned a passage to New York.
About n month after the loss of the independence 1 happened
to meet Captain Hardy O Broadway. Our conversation turned
naturally upon the disaster ana eSpecldHy upoh tS 0u az
moor WYATT. I thus learned the following particulars;
The artist had engaged passage for himself. wife, two sisters
and a servant. His wife was indeed MS she had been represent
cd n most lovely and most accomplished woman. On the MORN
ing of the 14th of June Ghe day in which l first visited tue
SHIN the lady suddenly sickened and died The young husbano
was frantic with grief, but circumstances imperatvey forbaae
him deferring his voyage to New York. 1t was necessary to
take TO her mother the corpse of his adored wife, andpon the
other hand. the universal prejudice which would prevent his 90
tng q ononlv was we'll known. Ninetenths Of the passengers
would have abandoned the ship rather than take passage WITH d
dead body.
In this dilemma Captain Hardy arranged that the corpse, being
FIRST partially embalmed and packed with a large quantity Z
sol IN a hoy OF suitable dimensions, should be conveyed on
hoard A merchandise. Nothing was to be said OF the faay ue-
cease. and. as II was we'll understood that Mt wyatt hao "a
acc assac for his wife. It became necessary that some per-
Fam saeuld nersonate her during the voyage. This the deceased
tadyss maid was easily prevailed on to do. The extra sfasereenes
orietaally engaged for this girl during her mistress life, was a@H
merely retained. In this stateroom the pseudo wife slept of
mrs every night. Ia the daytime she performed g essss
of her ablafv the nart OF her mistress. whose Refsens i baa
besa rsrerulfy ascertaaned, was unkHown 70 any p@ssenseE