Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1876 — Mr. Garner’s Heroic Devotion to His Wife. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Garner’s Heroic Devotion to His Wife.

In an article on the recent disaster in New York Bay to the yacht Mohawk, a writer in the Chicago Tribune says: But after all, my sadness in the contemplation of that miserable disaster" is almost outweighed by my admiration of the heroic devotion which it evinced. Think of that poor wife, Mrs. Garner, imprisoned, bound down by those heavy pigs of lead upon her dress, and her bruised form completely locked hr the sofa and bureau, while her agonized husband and his friend were tugging, tugging at the struggling form, yet all in vain! Think of the devoted husband, after all his fruitless efforts, finding the whelming waters rapidly rising around them, taking her hand, ana saying: “ My darling, if I cannot take you with me, I’ll go with you! ” And there, beneath the salt waves of New York Bay, within a hundred yards of shore and~help, he “ went with her.” Leander swam the Hellespont to greet his “ ladie love,” and his name has survived the lapse of tine; but what was that devotion compared with this, before our very eyes almost ? Every ill and every disaster has Its compensations, and tins devoted love of a young millionaire stands out a sort of heavenly halo, to gild one of the most heart-rending disasters of the age. Ana she, who carried with her t) her watery grave this more than “ plumed Kuight ” —this magnificent, heroic specimen of manhood—this faithful husband, “ even unto death ” —what may. we think or say for her® She needs no epitaph better than this: “ Her husband, failing to save her, died with her! ” No “ woman of the period ” was she, I ween, this kid-gloved and daintily-clad woman, with a princely fortune at her command, who, dying thus suddenly, saw the lover of her maiden years so true to his faith and his early love that death to him seemed preferable to separation; and so be clung to her hand, saying, as his last words :i •• My darting! if I cannot take you with me, I’ll go with you! ”