The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-10-01

menade on East Battery, which on
Saturday night last was thronged with
promenadera, was almost entirely sub.
merged. The angry waves dashed
over the stones in hinge pillows and
flooded the street below, tearing up
the huge fiag'stones and washing away
the shell road. On South Battery the
destruction was equally sudden and
terrible. Tie water poured in vol
umcs over the abutment, and long be-
fore O'Clock wus fully two feet dsep
in the lawn Of White Point Garden.
ihe beautiful bnitery is now sceae
OF -uin. and it is calculated that it will
take o: least 500, 900 to repair the da-
mage done at this point alone.
at 8 o'clock, q messenger arrived at
the main Guard House. with the news
that the frail bridge, leading to the
bathing house, had been en ept away,
and bathing house itself, With it's owner
and his family, who were in it, we're in
i'm minent peril. The news spread like
wildire. and in short time hundreds
OF excited spectators had assembled on
the battery to satisfy themselves as to
the truth Of the report. The gale at
this time 10 o'clork) was absolutely
furious; terrible hurricane, hurting
huge masses OF water over the high
battery and rolling huge breakers
breast high nlong the South walk.
The garden was fully four feet under
water, presenting clear sheet from
East to South Battery. But all eyes
were turned from the scene of devusta.
ton Immediately around them to
point of more thrilling interest. The
bathing house, cut of as it was from
all communication with the land, was
rocking on its foundation, and it was
OF once ecen that every effort must be
nude, without delay, TO rescue the un-
fortunate inmates. These were Mr..
McManmon, his wife aud two children,
and young man who occupied one o!
the rooms.
The first attempt was made by s
number Of colored fishermen and
policemen. headed by Mr.. II. Mott
Parker, the stroke oar of the Palmetto
boat crew. A yawl boat gas procured
from the numbers usually moored
around Moreland's Wharf, und with
twenty-five or thirty volunteers, the
leaders dragged the long and anxiously
iooked-for boat through the wu,er,
which was quite sufficient to float her
across the garden to the spot imme
diately opposite the bathing house on
tho South walk. The bridge in it's
fall had torn away considerable por-
ton of the masonry, and the sea sooE
increased the rent to wide gap. This
was deemed favornble point from
which to launch the craft, and 20, with
tue hundreds of hands which were
now ready and willing to uesist the
daring spirits in their peri.ous venture.
the boat wns launched at an opportune
moment. and five men. two policemen.
two fishermen and Mr.. II. N. Parker.
threw themselves into her, seized the
oars and made strenuous efforts TO
head for the bathing house. A line
had been attached to the stern of the
yawl to draw her in TO shore in case of
s"amplng. This piece Of pre- caution
was the Cause Of the fist fuiluIe. for
the men entrusted with the rope, when
1t was seen hy every one that the boat
could not lie tnaunG"d with the strain
oil the line uD her stern, i..:nard to let
Z" until the BOAT had i,ern bonn. too
lar To l,ewmr,!, ana nothing was left
ter The crew hut to keep her how to
'he breakeIs aud let her d,;ft on with
.h2 surf aud current. They elected Il
landing under the lee Of th.. iattnyv
WALL without serious .liffirn.ty The
situation now bcSOu to .ntk De. pernte.
The bathing house irrinb.ed at .very
fresh gust a: wln1. nuu til. iuointuin-
IKE bli!u"s we're luI.d n so many
batteiing rams with merci,css lupiditv
against the crumbiing foundation.
Previons 10 this the little tug Relief
had hove IN sight, and her captain
! oiade heroic efforts to rtscne the in.
mates Of lie rapidly falling house.
The little vessel breasted tho storm
gnllnntly, pitching ard rolling in the
ilraVy sen to an nirrming extent. and
every time She made an attempt to
round to the gale she was 1.-rc,i.ssiy
beaten back, and in short time she
faded from sight like phantom ship
IN the mist and rain, driven III, the
river n u frighsfn' speed. The future
ot the tug to relieve the inpnt,s OF the
house. and the iruitleas effort Of the
ynwl boat crew, tended to increase to
fearful pitch the excitsmcnt of the
crowd. An unusually heavy blast of
wind, together with an enormous wave
ut this time. stove in the rear portion
of the doomed house. the shattered
timbers swayed hesitatingly for mo-