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Smriliag Incident and Miraculous Es-* cape*On the 16th met., two gentlemen wereendeavoring to cross the Kanawha river, in a skiff. about two miles above the Kanawha Falls. Being strangers, and not knowing the character of the river, they did not have oars, and were only provided with an ordinary pole. They soon reach* ed deep water, where bottom could not heobtained, and rapidly drifted towards the Falls, and apparently to eternity, as no human being or animal has ever beenknown to go over the Falls and escape with life, rite men, despairing, sat down in the skiff, and as they approached the brink of the cataract, the boat, for*innatclv, took a course with her bows ■ — wdown stream, and descended the first fall in safety; the second pitch site plunged under water in the boiling whirlpool, w hie it is at the foot.One of the gentlemen, named J. ft. F.■C?Mosely, of Amherst county, together with hie favorite dog “ Taylor/* (also in the skiff with them,) came to the surface obout fifty yards below, and saved them* selves by clinging to the skiff, which hadturned bottom upwards, from which they were taken some distance below.The other, James T. Christian, of Appomattox county, did not make his appearance above the water fur the distance of a hundred yards, where he was rescuedin the last struggle oflife, by two young men, Hiram Johnson and Franklin Simms,who went to his relief in a skiff, whichMr. Henry Rigg had hurriedly got ready for the purpose, at the time of their tie-scent over the Falls. This is a feat hitherto unknown in the navigation of the Kanawha.—Republican.
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Clarksburg Coopers Clarksburg Register
Clarksburg, West Virginia, US
Fri, Aug 22, 1856
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