Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-04-05
SAVE THE ORPHANS
LIFE SAVERS FROM CHICAGO RES
CUE INMATES OF FOHl
WAYNE ASYLUM.
GARLAND RELATES INCIDENTS
Children at First Afraid TO Trust
Themselves in Boats-Crews Struo-
ole Desperately Across Mile OF Rag
ina Flood.

ole Desperately Across Mile OF Rag
ing Flood.
Chicaro-IIalrfroZen ana "l'lou'
food 6ffy eight children and their at
teud9nts we're rescued from the forI
. Wsvnc Orphan Asylum by Captain
. Charles Garland and his crew from
. the Chicago lire saving station zap
tain Garland and six life savers re-
turned 10 Chicago from Fort Wayne
with their surf boat. but imm'dial'H
dcparted for Terrc Iaute TO continue
their rescue work
Captain Carland's story was graphic.
Ito told how he and his men arrived .
nj the asylum just after four childrt" .
had met death when an attempt was .
made to rescue them. rive trips 10 .
tho ASYLUM were made by Captain .
Garland and each time a boatload was .
taken safely across half mile OF
swiftly flowing water. BESIDES the
children four matrons and six men
wore rescued from the building.
} Garland Tells story.
eve arrived at Fort Wayne Wheh
; the water was highest said Captain
Garland NO sooner had we arrived
, when a report reached us that the
} children were marooned in the Orphan
ASYLUM. One attempt had been maze
r 10 rescue them which ended dlsas-
B.. trouslv for four of the children ana
> two brave men. The small rowboat
p in which the would-be rescuers had
4 reached the building overturned AFTER
D four of the children had been taken
2 from a sccond-saory window. All were
i drowned.
0 conditions I'm the asylum were aw-
d full when six men and myself finally
g reached the building. In one small
room huddled together half frozen
@ and hungry. were the little girls and
bows with their attendants.
L "Many were crying, few were
t. asleep from exhaustion. one OF the
S women had tainted.
81 Afraid to Trust Boats.
= AT first they refused TO trust thelr
L lives to our boats. They had witnessed
e the fate of the first boat and were
O. afraid. We finally carried twelve OF
the little ones out of the second-story
window and then our fight back start
N ed. It needed the combined strength
OF every man on the boat &c
Is fight the current and prevent the
boat from overturning. Then We
were hampered by the cries OF the
children and at times the one matror
10 we took with us would become panic
w stricken. After getting to shSre the
no children were placed in the care o
,e merchants of the town. and we wen
nd back for another load.
-, I'VE received different reception OF
20 our second arrival at the asylum. /
shout of JOY went up when they hear
~ that the first load had been lande'
20 safely. A little confusion resulte
II, from the natural anxiety of the tots I
get into the boat. No one was hur'
however. and after five trips we SUE
a ceeded in removing all the chlldre
q and their attendants to safety.
"a The merchants thanked US fo
what we had done. One of the m;
irons told us the children had not ha
a full meal for As hours. They had ru
out of coal and were breaking up tn
furniture in the place for fire WOO
:. The fire they kindled in the middle
:, the room. Drawing the danger of II
entire building burning up"
Brings 200 Peru Children.
Charles H. Thacher and his VIII
\ who live at 1860 Groveland avenu
h arrived here from Peru, Ind, with
81 Peru children, many OF them nc
81 orphans.
~ A man in Peru, having boat.
Iti manded $50 from Thacher to take {
IN two away. There was another wo
an in the marooned house, and I
-, boatman refused to take her. y
~ "A shot was fired and the man f
Na out of the boat, dead" said Mr.. Tha'
uG er. Mr. Thatcher escaped with his W
JS1 and the other woman in the boat.
second man, DIR. Hupp, offered DO
man 800 to take his wife to hospit
there being imminent visit from
stork. The man refused and the d
tor knocked him out of the boat W
\ a brick. A Winona college stud'
rowed the doctors wife to the h
pital, where a baby was born, mott
II and child being saved.
e Trio In Stolen Boat Drowned.
rel Three unknown men were drown
'urt at Peru when a leaky boat, which Il
eted had stolen, sank. The boat was o.
ldel. ed by Oliver Wilson, a farmer v
the lives near the water line of the in
r for urban tracks. Wilson discovered
500 theft when the three men were
sfer wards from shore. When they
ould gone a half mile, they appeared
distress. The Wilson family watc
for the men struggle in the water
free disappear. No effort has been m
ught to recover the bodies.
At Logansport heroic work
done by the crew sent from l.
ROB Bluff and by the cadets from Gu
Military academy in saving lives
d OF In all more than 5000 persons v
10 rescued from marooned homes
taken to safety in rowboats. NJ