The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-07-13
ARGEES AGAINST TAFT HOURS IN QCKSD TELL STORY OF WIRE
WOMAN IS RESCUED AFTER TERRIBLE
EXPERIENCE
MAN LURED HER into BOAT

MAN LUREU Her lNlU BOAI
Negro NANNY" Extricated BY
Policeman From Grip of Ashley
River Mud.
News and Courier.
After spending at least five
hours in the grip of the treacher-
GUS mud on the border of the Ash
ley River, off the foot of Bee
street, Oracle Linsey, negro
nanny about SIS years of age,
was rescued from her perilous pre-
dicament by Privates Eaton and
Welrman, of the police foEce, and
subsequently sent to the City Hos
pital in a police ambulance. The
policemen eXtricated the woman on
ly after hard work and consider
able risk to themselves, being OBJ
liged. to lay a bridge of narrow
planks across the dangerous quick
sand, in which the unfortunate wo-
man had sunk almost to her chin.
The old nanny was taken from
the quicksand about noon yeSter-
day, half dead with fear and COW
cred with mud. She was cleaned
thoroughly by the officers, dressed
in some fresh clothes lent her by
another negro woman, and as her
actions then were so queer as to
excite a suspicion of possible in
sanity, she was carried to the City
hospital in police ambulance.
She is at the hospital now, and il
is feared that the terrible mental
strain which she underwent while
being drawn down into the Shiny
mud minute by minute has caused
her to lose her mind
Mistaken For Crane.
According to the story told at
police headquarters last night, Mrs
Welsh, who lives at No. Chin
Guapln street, states that as early
as $50 yesterday morning she
noticed an object in the mud of
the Ashley river off the foot of
Bee street. She says that she saw
1t move several times, and thinking
that 1t was big crane, or heron,
or the kind common to the mud
flats, paid no more attention to, il
although she noted with surprise
that it did not seem to move.
Shortly after IL O'Clock she
called Ter husbands attention 10
the OBJECT, and he, taking a pair Of
field glasses, made the startling
discovery that it was not an ami
NAL, but a human being. All that
he could see was a negroes head,
bound up with cloth turban,
such as is used by the typical
Charleston nanny" He hastily
called up the police station and no
titled them of his discovery, and
Privates Eaton and Weirmann we're
sent to the scene.
BY the time the policemen arriv-
ed the report had spread through
out the neighborhood, and there
was crowd of negroes gathered on
the shore and eagerly watching
the woman, but making absolutely
no effort to save her. She was
stuck in the mud about twenty-five
feet from the edge of the marsh
and the marsh was over fifty feet
across and considered unsafe to
walk on, it looked as if the woman
would have to die.
Policemen Effect Rescue.
The two policemen, however,
thought differently. Mr.. II. Fish
beck, of No 46 President street,
who owns wood yard at the foot
of Bee street, told them where
there was a pile of 20 foot timbers,
each plank of which was about two
inches thick, and the officers at
once devised a temporary pontoon
passageway to the seemingly DOOM
ed woman. Lifting the planks, and
obtaining the assistance of several
negro men, whose courage revived
the minute a leader appeared, they
placed the timbers end to end
across the marsh gradually ap-
the policemen, who were leading,
several times fell into the danger
Gus slime as they progressed along
their perilOus pathway
On reaching the aera OF open
mud they found the danger great
er, and at times they were forced
to put three and even four planks
on top of each other, as the first
ones sank several inches deep into
the soft mud Finally, however,
they reached the woman and with
much difficulty extricated her and
then carried her into safety.
PitiabIe Sight.
She presented a pitiable sight as
she reached the shore. Broken
down and nearly demented, she
looked pathetic, even though, de-
spite the seriousness of the situa-
tion, there was something numerous
In her appearance, the black pluf1
mud sticking to her several inches
deep. The officers carried her into
the grounds of a small dairy near
the foot of the street, where the
near tragedy occurred, and with
the assistance of a negro woman,
and a supply of old clothes, the
old woman was washed carefully
and redresSed. She was then car
ried to the hospital.
Although her stories of the ac-
cident differ widely, the one to
which she clings most persistently
lG that q lftrad hAr tof