Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-05-11
SOME WONDERFUL ESCAPES
Defied Bullets and Seemed to Beal
Charmed Lives.

| Charmed Lives.
There Is a story told Of an old vet
eran Of the first Napoleon, says Tit
Bits, who lived until 1865, in thu
French village Of Savary, and WHIT
| owned a wooden leg, wooden arm, G
set Of false teeth and a silver plate or
the top Of his head, and yet died peace
| ably in his ped. Compared with such
men, the proverbial nine-lived cat il
nowhere. But as one reads the stories
Of great wars of the past the manner
| in which famous generals have played
touch -and-go with death is little short
of miraculous.
The wonderful escape Of Napoleon
and wellington were proverbial
Though bullets grazed them and rid
died their clothes and both had horses
shot under them. yet both passed
through a life of battle and danger
with two or three slight wounds apiece
General Blucher did not fare so we'll
Wounded several times while serving
under Frederick the Great, he retired
from the army when that irascible
monarch swore at him.
In response, however, to the patriotic
call, he took up arms against Napoleon
and was seriously wounded at Lutben
At Lingy, too, he was thrown down ant
ridden over by the French and Prus'
sian cavalry; but by drinking quanti'
ties Of his favorite gin and water the
old war dog was able to lead his troop!
on the following day, and to materially
assist in the winning Of the battle o.
Waterloo.
Marshal Ney, the bravest Of the
brave, was continuously fighting for q
years, yet he escaped with only few
slight wounds to meet a traitors doom
at the hands Of the Bourbon king. HI
Of horses shot under him, eagerly
courted death when leading the Ole
| Guard at Waterloo, and yet was never
seriously wounded.
|
| however, than that Of Gen. Skenzy'
echi who got 80 bullets through hi:
cloak during the battle Of Ostrolenks
in the Polish insurrection Of 1881. ol
Sir D. Lacy Evans, whose ear wa:
perforated by a bullet in the Carlis
war Of 1897. Garibaldi, too, had man!
narrow shaves but none closer thar
when resting one day at Volturno
While drinking from pail Of water &
| splinter from a richochet shell grazet
his thigh and killed some people near
| The number of men who have es.
capped death through having a Bible
coin, love letters or some other ar.
ticles in their pockets, Is legion
| During the South African war, ont
man owed his life to the fact that the
queens chocolate box, which he car
ri ID in the breast Of his tunic, stopped
aimed bullet. In another case
a man found a bullet embedded in {
| small book he carried in his pocket
and third owed his escape to certain
silver coins which DETECTED the mis-
chievous missile.
| Lord Wolseley came within an ace
Of death while serving as captain be-
fore Sebastopol. He was assisting tC
replace a number Of gabions under 6
severe fire, when big shot struck the
| gabion he was holding, drove large
stone through his cheek and jaw to hi:
neck, smashing his right wrist and in
| jured his skin. But Lord Roberts wa:
even more fortunate. AS he stood or
the tower at Lucknow signaling fol
the British army to advance thousand!
Of shots were fired at him and the fiat
was shot from his hand. Calmly stoop'
ing down he raised up a regimenta
color and continued to wave that. Hi!
escape on that occasion was little shor
of a miracle.