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the “r president was killed.**ch. Morn •#r*#d * private In Co. I ofnd the |S2nd Ohio regiment of Volunteer My Infantry. was, in ••live service two years ill. ‘,*'1 •*‘*nt »•** months In prison.Olio Harden, hie figure bent with the weight of years, recalls the events of the A '••••ater ae vividly as If It had haprenedthe »-••*••# -We were sent to Athene on the night oy of nept ember 24 11*4 snd when within (| fl*e miles of the place we met «ien Vm-si. wh°l* brigade Wo fought withhim for Ihtee hours when we found we weie out of puwder snd surrounded bv the enemy. We had te surrender and weie taken to Cehaba prison wheie we weie held until the latter part of »!ar h. ,yl Iftfll.'• *1 suppose we wouldn't hex# been re-(•seed then but «he waters of the Ala-I bsma tiver flooded the prison until we u- were waist deep in the water The robe's el *ent us to Vicksbuig where we remained la- In parole .amp until the fultans arrived It to take ue homeWe were happy W# were on our I way to *o©d a country * aa wa alwave as .shod tha NorthI was In the engine room of the • steamer eound asleep when th# esploelon occurred I was lying Immediately M. ■I- aid# the hatch hole with eaten of my to comrades first the.# was a leinfie Mf plosion, then hot eteam. smoke pioces •S of brickbats snd chunks of coal come Id thick and fast | gasped or breath a *f fire broke out that lighted up the w hd. •e near. I stood a» th. hatch hoi# t* keop a comrades from falling In as the top was It blown off by th# sgplosionThan fir# rompaiiod me to lea* a my I P«4I 1 saw two of my eoiurade# fromrnffe* sod whiskey and you can bat w* drank It **John Zsiser suffered all hla life fro. the asposuia of being In ths water for eighteen hours The emokeelark fell nn •h* stesnier hell, epllilng It In two pier* snd half of k fall on ths man lying n*»-to him, killing him.Mrs. C. A. AUen.worth. HI I Woodland av .\W\ daughter of Hharlff Zeis** hssrd th# story many llinea of ths an' ferlng which followed the Sultana die aster.The steamer Sultan* was built at Cln-• tr.natl. O. In Januar of il«j. and •• designed to carry between SOo and 4 • passengers On ths fateful trip she wa loaded to eia times her rapacity Appros-itnately tea of the soldiers were fro., Ohio and many of them from the xlclnl' «f Canton.The lesson for the overloading w supposed to he the result of dicheru between the rapiam and the officers . 'barge of tha man The Suit Otis gpptat' offered to taka l.ete man at It apte but finally agreed to take tbe :ioo at » a placeTha host a I meat cepaUed at Helen* Ark. when a photographer wee a#'standing on tha share taking a pictu,-of tha boat. The hays wanted lhair fs.»• a show, m the picture aad eo roan* ot them crowded to the share aids that tlu boat almost turned over.An old copy of this photograph p.seemed by L O Morgan Findlay. on. of the survivors The United gtatee go-arpment borrowed the picture to ha n the publication of a book *• psisout-espariancaa of the survixo. which »«e published by spatial ail uf congress iu 1192
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Canton Daily News
Canton, Ohio, US
Sun, Jun 05, 1927
Page 50
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