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ATHENS, GEORGIA, MAY 21. 1889.
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CHAPTER XII.
gful AR TIN s:ii*1 Per
cy looked in the
direction indicat
ed by tho officer.
It was then about
5 o’clock in the
a f ter noon, the
sky clear over
head, tho sea
calm, tho sun
sinking red to
ward the west,
over Cuba and
Hayti, which
were below the
horizon, some
'1'^*hundreds of miles
away. The tem-
* pcra’turo during
. . {l . w davs had been growing
r »ml warmer, and they were now
twentieth parallel of north lati-
' 1 about on the sixty-sixth me-
_ ,vest from Greenwich. Smce
‘ u .,„-een Ilatteras and tho Bex-
l]i ( .j had had fair weather, with
r’irs between the south and east
Lhv there had been no breeze
Lr, and the beat had been Op
tra ’ The surface of tlio sea looked
[ w j [ay quite flat, without any per-
y c heave or swell Masses of drift
«ere passed occasionally, stppg
Ln long lengths, as if drawn by in-
Icrurrcr.ts. Sometimes a cocoanut or
ange would float past, silent heralds
c islands near at hand. The course
earner was steering was taking her
rd the group of little islands bo-
. the greater and lessor Antilles, of
I, st Thomas is one. It was there
hey were to make their lirst land-
i officer had pointed toward the
Invest, or n few jioints of? the star-
| bow. Percy could see nothing ra
table there; but Valentine, who was
fiiar with the sea, at once fixed his
I u I Km a small dark cloud, low down
pit water, the peculiarity cf which
that it changed its shape with great
Jity, and without any apparent
i One moment it looked like a
, with the lingers extended; then it
like a hat, the crown of which grew
rand larger until it presented the
tof a pointed foolscap. Then the
suddenly inverted itself, and stood
is apex: then the foolscap divided
i the center, and took tho form of a
lliird with wings pointed upwards,
putt is rather odd,” muttered Valen-
| intently watching the prevan little
l "I have seen a hurricane begin
ray. 1 hope it will give us a wide
l This is a bad phice to be caught
jtornado, with that string of islands
| ahead of us.”
I must he a couple of hundred miles
it nearest of them," said Percy. “Y» 7 e
kfe enough. This steamer can stand
liing.”
(here comes tho captain.” obser’ ed
mine, without noticing Percy 's re
fact tho captain emerged from his
\ and mounted tho bridge; he cast a
*at tho cloud and then gave some
l* ' n a 1°"’ tone. They were fol-
u lyv an immediate activity on the
of the watch on deck. The sai’ors
r ra P i dly about, and seemed to be
ped in stowing under hatches or
vise making fast various barrels,
and other loose objects that had
0 wn kept on deck. Meanwhile
Aptatn had got out a telescope and
; onteinplating the cloud through it
gjvat earnestness. Presently he
II p h’huia to the officer who stood
“on the bridge, and who also took
observation; then they con-
' n an undertone and oc-
J issued a new order to the
' , ? ''' ero no sails set on thd
I ’ , U J l * 10 sheets and halliards
pvirvo taUt and surely belayed,
J tung was made fast and bat-
o\\n m such a way that nothing
oi a hurricane could dislodge it
' nan understands his busi-
i omarked Valentine, and I fancy
II ’ th “ l lt nay nee^jiU lie knows
“ 03 lhroa Sh. v Look at the cloud
h . i f 3 <**■ toward
nature. A hot, faint air drew past the
vessel ui the direction of tho black can
opy, as if it were sucked tliitlier by some
malign attraction. Presently the care of
tho observers began to bo conscious of a
singular minor sound, somewhat resem
bling that .produced by the wind on a
telegraph wire, only infinitely more hol
low, deep and reverberating. It re
sounded all over the level surface of the
pallid sea, and appeared to be echoed
hack from the horizon and the vault
above, as if the heavens were a metallic
inclosing dome. It sang and resounded
and roared, but still with an inner sound,
as if that which uttered it were still afar
or walled off by some obstacle that it had
not yet overcome. Everything else was
deathly still; the plash of the foam
against the vessel’s bows and under her
stern was the only other sound, but that
seemed abnormally loud.
The captain's voice on the bridge broke
out with startling distinctness." though
he spoke not above his customary pitch.
He gave the order tp put the’ vessel
about. Immediately 6he began to swing
round on her course, describing a semi
circular sweep with her stern; and in a
few minutes she lay with the cloud at her
l, ack, and her Ixnvs pointed towards the
unclouded regions of the northeast Her
propeller still moved, but slowly; she
was like a champion awaiting the onset
of an enemy and gathering himself up
for the struggle.
The enemy was now at hand. By this
time the central advance had thrown out
two long black arms that crept along the
horizon to the right and left inclosing
the vessel in a deadly embrace. Dark-
vMio were Zead; each held on to what-
cver support was nearest him and waited
m darkness and uncertainty for what
might come. The engine fires had been
put out arul all ihe men available were
taking turns at tho wheel, in a desperate
X£ u . ne< l ua * Sniggle to keep her before
the wind, borne Telt that it would be a
relief if the ship would founder and go
down. Hut she swept on, outstripping
death wolf. Suddenly one of the pa£
Bengers, who liad been alternately pray
ing mid blaspheming in the cabin, broke
out in a yell of niad laughter, and rushed
up the comj anion way and out on the
deck. The hurriu. lie caught him and
hurled him forward; he was jammed be
tween the stump of the mainmast and
the shaft of one of the anchors which
had somehow been carried there; the
" *nd turned liis coat over his head and
whipped it into ribbons in a moment; in
another moment he was miked to the
waist; then he was twisted and beaten
and lashed about until he was a shapeless
mass of bloody flesh and shattered bones.
At length a sudden pitch of the vessel
loosened the anchor, and it and the
corpse went overboard together, and the
ship swept -on.
It was perhaps an hour after this, and
long after the most sanguine liad yielded
dumbly to despair, that the steamer rose
on a monstrous wave, which mounted
and mounted beneath her until it seemed
as if it would end by carrying her through
the sky; then, with a last furious effort,
flung her forward, and slipped back
Under her keeL The great vessel was
carried on by the impetus of the onset,
and fell with an appalling crash, not on
the sea again, but on the solid earth,
ness fell over them as from an eclipse; Her voyage was over, and she was in port
the unshadowed east, ere it vanished al- . a ^
together from sight, looked like a scene * Her iron ribs were crushed by the fall,
viewed through a tunnel. The moment I *‘ er * rame Kt 'll held together, and all
was one of awful suspense; no human | motIcn ceased. The wind still shrieked
creature could long have endured it i and tbo 863 bellowed and thundered, but
without giving way to some outbreak of . no wares struck the ship. She seemed
intolerable emotion. The blood flowed * ^ ^ ave been lifted beyond their reach;
thick in the veins; the brain throbbed | but where they were no one knew, nor
confusedly; the breath came in difficult | co . u ^ have guessed within a hundred
sighs. With a sudden but majestic up- 1 miles - After an interval, the quarter-
ward gradation, the minor roar swelled • mas tor, who had been the last man at
would be a swirl in the water, a'jerk and
a 6plash, and a shark would glide away
with a human arm or leg in his jaws.
The banquet was an unusually rich one,
and tho banqueters were assembling in
thousand?.
“Well,” said the quartermaster, as his
eyes rapidly traversed tho scene, “I've
heard of miracles, but this is the nearest
to one that ever I saw. Of all the tbingn
that might have happened, this is the
unlikeliest; we get caught in a hurricane,
and blown north and south, we don't
know where, nor whether we were^nder
water or above it; and here at last we
find ourselves high and dry, in the port
we were Itound for, and within a dozen
rods of the very wharf we should have
lain up to! This Is a queer world!”
••What place do you say this is?” in
quired one of the pa#Wengers, drawing
near.
“This is St Thomas, sir—what there is
left of it—and no other place in the
world. Oh, is that you, Mr. Martin?
I'm glad to see you safe and sound: 1 ex
pect a good half of us will never speak
again. Where is your friend, sir?”
I don’t know,” replied the other; “I
“I understand; but”—— - —-
•• “Very well. Having no longer any
especial reason for revenging himself
upon Percy, and probably not believing,
on sober second thought, tliat he had
committed the crime, ho would begin to :
ask himsolf how the public trial .would
affect his wife and himself. And the
first thing ho would see would be that it
would involve letting out the whole
story of the flirtation. Now. if lib wife’
liad persbted in her folly, instead of act
ing the part of a virtuous cur, as she did, :
he might have been willing to have her
shown up; but as it was. lie would desire
to hush it up as securely,as possible.
There was only one way to do that, and
that was”
“Ah! I see. The plaintiff would de
cline to prosocute?”
Exactly, and that (as I have the best
" chin awhile wiili ft meditative air. -So
the young man b drowned. U he?” lie
said, at length “Tho account see his to
look that way,
j “Do you incur, there can Ik* any doubt
’about it?” exclaimed the Judge. .
*T don't say tliere b; nml-aa a matter:
of course, judge, l recognize the.sincerity;
of your attitude. Still, if 1 were inter*!
ested ii» the boy, I should think twice*
before 1 accepted this news us cojiciu-l
sive. Have you heard anything iktsoiH
ally?” ')
“Nothing. This b all we know, so
far.” - , ’
“Well, you are aware that people re
ported drowned at sea sometimes have a
way of coming to life again. The sea is.
a big place, and it's difficult to be sure
what becomes of a man in a heavy storm
when everything’s as black as pitch
reason for knowing) b just -hat he has ^
done. His counsel are. instructed to J
withdraw the charge; and of course.
under the circumstances, the judge
would allow him to do 6a But when
they see that the prisoner is not on hand,
it may cause them to modify this course.
They might profess themselves ready toJ
have been looking for him. I haven’t go on with the case, and as the prisoner HEw IliatTs happemndkl
seen lam smce the wind first stopped is absent judgment would issue against i A __ »j F
blowing out at sea.” him.”
lo deafening shrieks of noise; there was
a vision of a white fury of waters astern; j
blast as cold ns winter swept from tho j
tafifrail to '.lie bowsprit; the dark- j
ss eluit down and became ab- I
solute, so that the observer seemed
plunged into impalpable pitch; and then j
with a paralyzing shock the hurricane !
smote the vessel, beating her down into J
the sea as by the sheer weight of u giant I
hand. The next instant, with a shudder j
and a spring, she leajied forward, stag
gered. and leaped again. Fragments of j
boiling surge hurtled along her decks, j
striking what they encountered with the'
of grape shot. The rnizzen mast broke
off within a yard cf tho sJfeck, and, lash
ing forward, struck the main 'mast and
brought it down in ruin, though the
noise of the crash was inaudible in the
yell of the frenzied gala Tho steamer
was rushing onward at headlong speed,
yet she seemed to be standing still, so
fast did wind and sea fly past her. She
reeled, staggered, leaped, was buried and
rose again, again to be overwhelmed. It
seemed another world, another age, com
pared with the sunlight and calm of a few
minutes previous. Blind, whirling, wel
tering chaos had engulfed all things;
nothing could be seen, nothing heard,
nothing done nor directed; only awful
plungings and strainings could be felt,
and thunderous blows and shocks. Only
by these signs could it be known that
tlio vessel was still above the water, still
being swept onward. Whither, and to
what fate, none could foretell.
The sea was at first beaten flat by the I
wind, though great pieces of water were ,
stripped from the 6urfaco and dashed
vnis £unal l cloud had
cow secJTE 7 mUCh krger ’ and *
of ,2 1)0 con hected with u
dinn-,, * v f por th at was rapidly
tau 0 T n , Uu ! t . sectionof th e hori-
v aDQl . „. v ’ l ‘ c i i4 was the pioneer.
o/ratW n “2 estraor <itoary dark-
ekSHtu f bl ^ knes3 ; it had not the
I s - but u- 1> 3 , oftea eeen in Btorm
rv srnot aS llU0 of toe densest
,po r he ™ an <l there. TLo rim
c «uinued U to° f i 16 0ncomin g black-
bin.- hl ,i V? advance —ito such as-
U Si 7 n hatafteronl X a few
ea to i.,° f t l6 . horizon, and now
cloud or m tlie torerun-
k t0 have incorporated itself
8 more closel y a t it, its
n, fi a j. uco appeared wildly com-
| fleece |'” nd sllr eds of vapor, like
1 mass bem i S 011 from th e
cd in rf Ud i? hirled around, or
io eVf> “ ri °nB directions, so swiftly
!*Ws. S d 6carcel X follow their
h wp' n ih .® green and yellow
f,vero 'plied and other, col-
•ZSHT** 1111111 the
quo. a « aspect of Wdeous iri-
■a non 'f W ] Ule the nor them and
C£ 80 , tlleflk y an <l sea ro-
6 that ln their calm ,
• ho iigh.t of the setting sun
K
] the wheel, crept to the companionway,
*; and, securing himself by a rope passed
round his waist and made fast to the
railing below, looked out.
At first lie could distinguish nothing,
and the rush of the wind stifled him; he
dragged himself back and waited. He
had not waited long before it appeared
to him that the noise of the hurricane
was abating, and the darkness was less
“It was that big wave that came
aboard us, most likely,” said the quar
termaster, gloomily. “That carried off
the captain and many a good man with
him. You may sail the seas till you're
an old nian, sir, and never see the like
of that storm again.”
But his interlocutor had moved away,
and was lieginning a search through the
ship in the forlorn hope of finding at
least the body of his friend.
CHAPTER XIII.
TO AWAIT CONFIRMATION.
HE day appoint
ed for P- rcy’s
trial was a week
after ho left New
York. During
this period his
mother and sister
and Judge Ke-
telle were the on
ly persons wno
knew of his es-
cape. On the
morning of the
trial • the judge
dropped into In
spector Byrnes’
office, with a newspaper in his hand and
a very grave face.
“I want to call something to your rec-
“It is that result that I hoped to avoid.
It would be a sad thing for an honorable
family to lie dragged through the dust in
Uiis way for a crime for which the ac
cused is not responsible.”
“He should have had the manliness to
face his accusers,” repeated the inspec
tor. “No one knows better than
mit. might find it convenient to have it
supposed he was permanently out of the
way He could start in under a new
name, with very little fear of ever being
interfered with. When this affair lias
blown over or been cleared up, he might
come back and all would lie right again.
only say it might lie so. And, consider
ing that M$. Martin was a friend of the-
family, it seems a little odd that ho
shouldn't have sent a letter giving a full
account of the affair. He must have
known what a value the mother and
sister would have put upon it.”
•‘1 hope with all my heart your theory
may be the true one,” said tho judge.
.... .. _ A! 1 1 “But I fear the report is correct,” he
that in this world a man must «To- | ad(led , aftpr a . There can bo
fend himself He cannot expect other nodoubt about the hurricane, nor that
people to lmd excuses for him. Rut. as p ercy was on the 8teamer There wa8
no necessity of inventing a report of his
death; he would be as safe in Mexico or
I say, he may live it down; lie is a young
fellow yet, and”-
jC
VP
intense. At length he ventured forth j ollection. inspector.” said he; “some-
again. Moment by moment the wind
was decreasing; the change was not so
sudden as it had been when the center of
the tornado pa&scd over them, and occa
sionally there was a return of rage and
fury. But these became less and less
frequent, and there were great cleavages
upwards through the clouds, revealing
tho remote sparkle of 6tars, for the sun
had gone down long since. One by one
thoso of the ship's company and passen
gers who remained came on deck and
stared about them. Were they on a
desert island?
A number of square objects, curiously
symmetrical in shape, and distributed
thing of importance to me, though you
may have forgotten it.”
“Oh, you mean young Percy Nolen's
case, don't you?” returned the chief of
detectives. “I remember; he was ac
cused of a robbery in a jewelry store and
you went bail for him in fifteen hundred
dollars. Yes, the trial comes on today.”
“You have a good memory. Well,
you are perhaps . not aware that Percy
left New York on the day following the
examination and never returned.”
“Yes, judge, I happen to be aware of
that, too! You see, we anticipated there
might be some difficulty of the kind, and
“Have you seen this morning's paper?”
interposed the judgo. *
“1 have looked through it. Is there
anything particular?”
The judge held out the paper, with his
finger on a certain paragraph. Tlio in-
pector took it and read as follows:
I New Zealand as at the bottom of • the
| Atlantia No, I’m afraid the poor boy
. is gone. And, as 1 was saying just now*,
j I trust that no steps will be taken today
to blacken his memory. The cause of'
I justice would not lie vindicated, and it
j would add a terrible pang to his inoth-
“A terrible hurricane is reported as er * B an d sister’s grief. Some considera-
having occurred in tho neighborhood of tion should be shown to them.”
St. Thomas, \V. I., on the loth ult. It j “Well, let us go down to the court
is described as the severest ever known j room> ' lbe -ins^.'tor. rising aWd
in those latitudes. It was preceded in j tafejjfg his hat “1 don’t suppose any
the morning by a dead calm and exces- | one wants ^ trample on a dead man-
so we put a inan on to watch liim. Mr.
with an appearance of regularity, be- { Nolen spent that night at Mr. Martin's
came visible in the immediate neighbor- • rooms on Fifth avenue. Tho next morn-
hood of the steamer. They were all of ‘ in S- so«ie ono whom our man took to be
1 nearly the 6ame height, though in their
; other dimensions they varied consider-
j ably; their sides were whitish, the tops
; darker. In front of the vessel, as she
1 lay. tho land rose upwards in a gentle
slope, and these rectangular objects
showed themselves thickly in that direc-
j tion.
"They don't look unlike houses,” re
marked tho quartermaster, peering eara-
Martin walked out and went up town.
An hour or two later, Martin himself
came out. Instead of following him our
man made the mistake of going up stairs
to see whether Nolen was in the rooms.
In that way they both got off. Wo did
everything in our power to stop them,
but it was too late. 4 sincerely hoped ho
would think better of it, and come back.
I cm sorry for you, but there it is!”
“As regards myself, I’rn not a loser. I
stripped iroin me sunaco anu aasnea estly through the gloom. ‘I don t know t ;i tn; ... f i, niirQ
throuirh tlio nir- hv and hv hmvnvor “y coart hereabouts that lias rocks like '° n 1 “ ind tellin g you that, a few hours
through tho air, by and by, however, ^ • after his escape, I received by letter the
waves began to form, but irregularly, w,,uu • - - - J
6ome rolling low, some reaching aloft
and Btalking gigantic, One of these,
hurrying through the blackness, mounted
the steamer’s stern and traversed her
deck to the bows, carrying with it the
funnel, tlio remaining mast and every
thing on board that offered resistance.
That wave 6truck tlie forecastle with .a
report like the bursting of a siege gun,
stove through the oaken planks, and
dashed a hundred tons of water through
the opening. All therein were drowned
and crushed to pieces, and the bodies of
several were whirled out again and car
ried like rags off into tlio waste of the
tornada Heavily the ship rose from tho
blow; it seemed as if she oouVd never
rise again. But up she came, and tlie
weight of water went booming qft,
breaking down partitions and deluging
cabins and state rooms. More than fifty
men were killed or disabled by that sin
gle buffet, and the survivors believed
that the end of all of them could be npt
many minutes distant.
But it so happened that no catas&ophb
of equal terror followed. Thqship/Jrove
on. sometimes threatening to brodch to,
yet maintaining her steerage way beyond
all expectation, bn the whole; axul'whea
ted ono
t, and
some time had passed—how lot
ever knew—the hurricane fell
in a breath or two, as it seemerL died
quite away. The darkness lightened,
and straight overhead appeared a,(3£ch
of sky half veiled by wheeling gtoeda of
mist They were in the center the
tornado; and now the waves leaped up
with a rebound so breakneck and astound
ing that ail sense of vertical and hori
zontal was lost, and the vessel reared and
pitched liked a maddened brohqo. This
phase of the battle between ship and
storm bade fair tQ lie more dangerous
than the opening experience; but, how
ever tliat might be, it did not bi^fc long.
Tho inky cloud shut down agahl; 'again
rose the shriek of rushing winds, coming
now from thp opposite poipt of tlifroatr.-
pass, and once more the dismantJaJ and
bruised hulk sprang forward on hfefr fear
ful race, galvanized, as it were, into pre
ternatural activity by a force n<& her
own. Stripped bare as she W3& and
weighted by the water she had taScn oh
board, she moved more steadily SiOp at
first. Nor could the nerves of. those
who still manned her continue to re
spond as before to the i-^fi 6? hor**
ror. Tlie worst was past forthqm, even
should death itself be in store. *£gbo
knew at thabtiruo who vyei^? flying -qtql
“If they were houses,” said the second
officer, who stood near, with his arm
broken, “we should be in tlie midst of a
town, and no small town either.”
“Harkl what's that?”
All listened. There was the sound of
a halloo, clearly repeated, and in a mo- |
ment it was an swe reel from a further
distance. Then in several directions. I
near and far, were heard calls, cries and 1
lamentations. The listeners uttered mur- ^
murs of surprise and perplexity.
Just then a great mass of cloud in the
east broke away, and tho full moon
shone forth with surpassing brilliance, >
shedding over tho 6cene a fight which, i
in comparison with the previous dark
ness. seemed as bright as day. It re
vealed on extraordinary spectacle.
Beyond the stem of the steamer ex- |
tended tho tossing waters of a large bay, 1
strewn with wreckage and an indescrib- .
able medley of floating objects. In front
and on either sido were the streets and
houses of a half destroyed town. The
steamer had been carried over the sea
yall and. lay beyond tho wharves, be-
ainount #f the bail; it came, 1 have rea
son to believe, from Martin. All Percy’s
outstanding bills were also paid, proba
bly by the same hand. Of course, Percy
shoul i have stood his trial, and had I had
any inkling of what ho intended 1 should
have used every means to prevent his de
parture. But at any rate he left no debts
behind liim.”
“He made tho mistake of his life,”
said tho inspector, emphatically. “As
the reason why will be known in a few
hours, I may as well tell you now. In
tho first place the evidence against him
was not conclusive, and, taking every
thing into consideration, tlie chances are
that ho would have been acquitted. TT»g
looks and manner and his previous rec
ord and social standing were in his
favor, though it is true that he had been
making a fool of himself hero and there,
as boys sometimes will. But a fellow
like thnrt is not likely to steal a lady’s
pocket book in face of the absolute cer
tainty of being suspected of it. The
game wasn’t worth the candle.”
“I quite agree with you,” replied the
\yuii iiuu uiy utyuuu uiu wiiarves, ue- i . , - A .■n,, - —’ - —~
tween the ruins of a hotel and a large J ud S°> was a possibility that
warehouse. A little way off was what had
been a.public pleasure garden or casino;
it looked os if a gigantic roller had been
passed over it. In a terrace higher up a
heavy iron gun stuck out like a half
driven bolt; it had been whipped out of
a vessel in the bay and bomo nearly half
a mile, passing completely through a
house on the way. Nearly every house
left standing was unroofed; many were
torn from their foundations and thrown
topsy turvy. Tho iron shaft of a street
lamp was bent over and twisted like a
corkscrew. In the center of a small fort
to the west of the town was a brig, with
one mast still standing. A floating wharf
just outside the sea wall was sunk; a
steamer was on top of it, and on top of
the steamer, lying crosswise, were the
remains of a three masted merchant ship.
A large provision store liad been blown
to pieces and the stores whirled about in
all directions over the town and ad-
tho verdict might go against him; and
you can understand that a conviction
would be as good as death to l>im.»
| “Even then, if we were innocent, the
guilty party would be sure to turn up
sooner or later and he would be vindi
cated. I could make a guess, even now,
as to who tho thief really is; but he has
not committed himself yet, and as tho
money stolen was in bank notes of coarse
it is more difficult to trace than jewels
or any kind of personal property would
be. But that is not the point I was going
to make. If he had appeared in court
today he would have been a free Tnan
ever after.”
j “How can you know that?”
j “la this way. You have heard all
about that affair of his with tho wife of
tho plaintiff. No actual harm had been
done, but she was compromised and her
husband liad heard of it; they had had
1 some words about it probably; and when
he found Nolen in such an awkward pre-
jacent lands. In the bay, now rap- , . . „ »
idly becoming calmer, appeared the th ca * aeat * naturally was not going to
masts of a score of sunken vessels, lose the opportunity of jumping on him.
m ■ - - So ho pressed the charge, as we saw.
But his wife did what he had not antici
pated—she joined him in the accusation,
and thereby ranged herself definitely on
hia side. Of course that took the wind
out of his sails; it proved that she hated
Percy as much as he did, and therefore
removed his own chief reason for hating
him.”
sticking up like reeds in a swamp.
Among them ^floated casks, blocks,
spars, boxes, quantities of oranges
and cocoanuts, fragments of trees, the
rafters and beams of houses; and bobbing
about everywhere were tho drowned and
mutilated corpses of hundreds of men
and women. But these were not to re
main lonz visifils. Ever and anon there
sive heat. Early in tlio afternoon
weatherwisc persons predicted a heavy
blow. The prophecy was soon verified.
“Clouds were observed collecting in the
southwest; they rapidly increasd in size
and darkness, and advanced toward the
northeast, from which quarter a gentle
breeze was blowing. The storm burst
with terrific fury. Tlio harbor of St.
Thomas is a large basin, the entrance to
which is a comparatively narrow pas
sage lietween two headlands. The har
bor was at the time filled with shipping,
including several steamers and large ves
sels. One of the steamers was at tho time
taking on passengers; the captain gave
orders that this should be stopped, and
steamed out of the harbor in tho hopoof
weathering tho gale. Tlie steamer has
not since been heard of, but fragments
of it have been picked up at sea, and
there is no doubt that she perished with
all on board. Tho storm was accompa
nied by intense darkness, greater than
that of ordinary midnight without moon
or stars. The wind’s velocity waa esti
mated to reach no less than two hundred
miles an hour, and the destruction it
caused was terrible.
“After blowing for a couple of hours
from the southwest it hauled about and
blew with equal violence from the north
east All the shipping in the harbor was
destroyed, and several vessels were lifted
out of the water and carried inland.
One large merchant ship was taken up
bodily and planted in the midst of a
warehouse near tho shore. Tho houses
of the town were unroofed and in most
cases annihilated. Upwards of four
hundred fives were reported lost, and
tho harbor was full of corpses, which
were devoured by tho sharks. One of
the most remarkable episodes of this dis
astrous storm was that of the U. S. and
B. Co.’s steamship Amazon. Sho was
due at St. Thomas on the day after that
on which the hurricane occurred. She
had cleared from New York with six
passengers and a full cargo. She had
fair weather up to within two hundred
miles of St. Thomas, and was some
what ahead of her schedule time. Ac
cording to tho narration of tlie survive
ors, 6he met the hurricane about o’clock
on the afternoon of the 13th. She was
put about so as to run before the gale.
The wind and waves almost immediately
dismasted her, and it was found impos
sible to do more than keep her before the
wind, even this taxing all the powers of
those on board. At one time sho was
pooped by a heavy 6ea which broke into
the forecastle and swept many overboard.
“When the wind veered about the
steamer becamo virtually unmanageable;
she drove before the gale, and it was ex
pected that she must founder. But after
several hours sho was suddenly beached;
and on. tlie storm breaking it was dis
covered that she was lying in the main
street of St. Thomas, close to her own
dock. In tho darkness she must have
been driven through tho narrow entrance
of the harbor, and so across to the town,
avoiding by a miracle numberless ob
stacles. She is, however, a complete
wreck, and half her ship’s company were
swept overboard and drowned, while
many of tho others have received severe
injuries. Of the sit passengers who were
on board the foliowing are killed: Alfred
Harper, went insane and washed over
board; Charles Tupper, neck broken;
James Blair, washed overboard; Percy
Nolen, washed overboard. Tlie sur
viving passengers are Herbert Simp
son and Valentine Martin. Mr. Martin
occupied the same state room with Mr.
Nolan, and is much affected by his death.
Ho says he saw him shortly before the
time when the steamer was pooped; he
was on his way to tho forecastle, under
the impression, it Is supposed, that there
was greater security there than in the
stern.
“Mr. Martin left for Vera Cruz yester
day. It is his intention to return by way
of Aspinwall to hi3 sheep farm, in New
Zealand, near Namier.”
Having read thus far, tlie inspector
laid down the paper, and stroked bi3
not even tlie wotrfan he was in love
with.”
This surmise proved partly correct.
On tlie case being called, counsel for tho
plaintiff submitted that their client was
disposed to abandon the prosecution.
The court asked where the prisoner was,
and the report of his death was put in.
The court observed that the prisoner ap
peared to have intended forfeiting his
bail, and was of opiuinu that the evi
dence of death was insufficient. But as-
the plaintiff wished to withdraw, and;
there was only a moderate presumption:
of guilt, the case would he adjourned,
pending confirmation of the report of
death, when tho question cf estreating-,
the bail would be decided.
[to bk continued.]:
New Administration,
FOR SALE.
15 Shares “Athens Savings Fauk” stcck.
5 ROOM HOUSE and roomy lot on Jaci son
street, in good neighborhood, and must be
sold.
5 ROOM HOUSE and good, garden spot on
college avenue St,750
2 SPLENDID BUILDING LOTS on College-'
avenue, £70 • amt £800.
7 ROO >i i OUSE on Jackson street, good gar
den and well for £1.650.
0 ROOM HOUSE and roomy lot on Bax er st.
G OOD HOUSE and p etty lot, containing one
acre ou on Rock Spring avenue. N ; ust be
sold in the next 6 days, and can he ho ght
cheap.
■QESIRABLE BUILDING LOT on Hill street.
A SPLENDID RUII.DTNG LOT on MiUadg*
avenue, containing 31-3 acres,
prf\ ACRES of level land, lylag between the
public road, le ding t Farmington amt
High Shoals The and M. railroad runs-
Ihrough one cor er of said trac-. Said track of
laud is witniu one mile of the ' o rr House of
W atkins ille and will make a nice little farm
for any mau aud can he bought reasonable, by
applying to
A \; ater power, gin and grist milt, run by a bold
> Y stream with 4 foot fall; 25 acres of land ia
the mill tract. 2 • acres in high state cf cultiva
tion, a nice new dwellimr, containing 7 rooms,
barn and other out buildings, ou a public road,
and only 4 miles from Athens, and can be nought
for §1,000.
J. T. ANPERSOV R E. A.,
No. 207 Bre^d street
TO RENT.
Elevator mills at Northeastern depot.
2 3-room houses on Thomas street.
rphe larg» and pleasant r silence, containing
A 11 rooms or more, with 2 servant houses anci
barn and -oomy lot,which Miss ailie Sosnowski
recently occupied, k own as T» e Home Schoo ,
6 ROOM new house and roomy lot on Br ad-'
street close to .usiness part of town.
J. t., NDERSON.
Real Estate Agent.
NO, 207 BROAD STREET.
Legal Advertisements.
J. A Hunhicutt, et. al, vs the Classic City
*- treet Railway Company, et, al.
Petition for Equitable Relief, Hec Iver, &e., ia
i larke Superior Court, April term, I8S9.
B Y virtue of an order of the Judge of the Sti
pe ior court of larke county, 1 we, the under
signed, the receivers appointed in ’he afcovo
stated ease,will sell before tin i ourthousedoor
of 11: rke county in Athens, a., within the legal
ho-:rs of sale on the 17th day of July,1889, to tfco
highest and best bidder, for cash, tt e following
property, to-wit: 11 tlie property ahl assets
of all i inds now held or owned oy tlie defend
ant, the t lass c City Street Railway Company,
and consisting principally cf the track of said,
company, as now laid in said city, being about 2
miles long; and f nr pissenger cars and the
fr« nchises of < he said company as contained in
an act of Oe eral Assembly of Georgi-, ipjjrov-
ed September 3 th, 1885. ’Tlielaie’dial!'he ?tu>
ject to the approval of the Judge of the Slipt-
rlor court of said county cf f larke. and If said
sale is so approved possession sha 1 be gtvtn to
the purchaser • n the first day of Augu.-t, 1889.
Terms cash, . James. White,
L. Hull,
Receivers for the Classic CityRailway Co.
o-a-w-d d 6J
/ GEORGIA, CL 1 RKE OUNTY—Whereas:
'T R. K. ReaVes, Administrator de bonis non
of the estate of Wm. F. Matthews, deceased,
has applied to me in terms of tlie 1 ,w. to be dis
missed from such administration. Thc3£ are-
therefore to cire and notify all c r.cemed, to-
show cause at the regular term of the court of •
Ordiuiiy, to he hel-i in, aud for said county, on
the first Monday in June next, why such dis
mission should not be granted. Gi eu under
my hand and official signature, this 23 day o|
February,-1889. S. it. IIERRI GTO»
£ Ordinary.
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