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By Maud M. Howells • year ara com In* in Canton thla monthin iha a. A. It. •nc«mpin«ni and thavIt miflniglit of April 2H. *“» * *M»ie nuitan. dia-1Ri..Y**'er many llmea while they here •« • • vivid niimnrv to Morn II* re.1 hr 'Sultana wa* steaming up • •»•** lt;*uui «r that night or hnrr..r.thr Mississippi river. among (lie A‘ °° ,lt;-rdn-ll.n ru . M • I . 1 rn ■*v#r forgot It.” said I'hll Horn.Ilrn and Chicken island*. «i mg v.t.r.n. ha. theOn her clerk were piled Him. and courtly baarlng Of . manvoting men. hut mm grown old l»v *!* hu4.,un,or, , Tha suffering nr that night Integralh°rror* of Confederalr pris- lain mr very amil | had ha«o In Cahabaon*. ruaon for a* van month., eaten Ion* ....... .ull.rli.. .... lt;»— look Of tun. Oh l . mm * *B ' **• * bl« b9Y *h# '' “ h,'P* ........... —........ .... ... „f „ T.o hun.gran mo,, comfortable at tha dreams of drag pound. I. n.y no,m.| weight. Hut• ban I arrlvad ho.na altar eaten montha In prtaon ending with . n|„. hour.’h*»meTwentv -three hundred of th.ni, lhara . all i.f the,it had languished In n for in.ny month., some of thani yeare. Andaiaonvilla. Mhb.v and prison* with thrlr horrible dls-• eI'M for Cahah.aR hum hniiilt;Hut they Met. happy *«• aimo*t In eight.Thev wet. sleeping, mnet of I ham. a* the overloaded ataamar careened up the fiver which in |ia flooded condition looked like a murky .... Hudden'y thera • aa a te,rifle eiploalun Hun-died. of emaciated bodies were cat.-pulled through the air Into tha raging waters Othara -vere pinioned heneaih the wreckage on the boat and In a faw * menu were v I. time of tha fl.rnea w hlch burned the alraitier to the water* edge Tha ri'er wa. a of atruggllng. de.palrm* men. *Mrusclln* in the water aoma of tha men found pie. ea of wood to which they elung hour aftei hour In the |. y wateratruggla In the .old waters of the Mlaela. aippl. | weighed lea. than |o« pounds I »a. a gaunt frame of honea.•That night faw of ua could alee,, until late We were piled Into the host t uiit to rarrv one..Ink the number of men being transported My bunhmata toe McKelvy. and myaalf found a plgra JU»l over the holler room. Wa wa-e it tag iheie li.tenlng to the plasaam nolao of the holleia underneath ua and dream-mg of home.The Pultuns stopped at \|^nphu to unload aoma sugar In h»gaheads A few of ua helped with the work to earn a little tnnney.Then we steamed Up the nter on our way to Cairo Wo .lopped • little bafoia mw midnight for coal and It was whlla lb- first • ••al w*. being shoveled In tha boiler »• room that I fall asleep. wrerAfter that I knew nothing hut I ha. aklfi Hava I lived a thousand year* In a mln- ‘Knr •«t* My first conception that I wa# alive him w.a that I *M I oat In the air. My body acali was Whirling through gpare .-jW hen the rioliisinn f aaL i. _ I . ..
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Canton Daily News
Canton, Ohio, US
Sun, Jun 05, 1927
Page 50
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Gene S.
USA 20 Dec 2016
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