The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-11-20
ALA WEEKLY BAZOO, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1883.

IT, by little. and hot, close, lifeles.
hesviness settled down upon the lone.
ly sea.
Isn't it terribly hot ?" cried girl,
discOnsoiately. Il thought it was going
to be quite nice. aud now It's as bad
rs Broadway in August"
It'll he cool enough before long. |
gu. s." said the leader of the party.
who had scrambled up on to the rock
overhead. There's a big cloud cnn.-
ing along over yonder, and a rain
cloud al that
Every one arose to look, and burst
of admirlDg exclamation broke forth
"How grand y "Doesn't it come on
quickly ?" 1T doesn't seem TO spread
at all, though" ''Is it a cloud, after
all ?" "Why what else can it be p
The careless question was suddenly
and terribly answered. As the pic
Dickers Looked down, with feeling of
wonder that was just beginning to BE-
mingled with vague uneasiness, u
on the long dark gray band that Was
sweeping over the smooth sea, they
siw Il reach lonely rock that stood
gsuntiy up out uf the blue sea-lit wa:-
els several miles to the northwest.
As they passed it in their boat that
morning they had looked up and seen
that rock towering full fifty feet over
head but uow, rs the advancing >had-
ow reached il, il vanished at once be-
meath a mountain of foaniDg water
that lea! Ell up into the air more than
4 hundred feet
Its wave J" screamed their lead
er. springing back. run rum"
Inc warning was hardly needed.
Almost before he could utter it the
whole party were running helter-skel-
Ter toward the top of the ridge.
But quickly a. they fed they we're
only just in time Hudly had the
last one been dragged up by the rest
on to the steep tOwer-shaped rock that
crowned the slope when there came Il
shock and a crash as if the very earth
were torn asunder. In a moment The
whole island had disappeared. and al
around them 10 to the very foot Ofthe
rock was one roaring whirlpool of
boiling foam and lasning spray.
The wave Itself went by them like
the rush of a waterfall. but such a
mighty mass of water could not sweep
over the sea without shaking it far and
wide. Following upon the great wave
came a long train of lesser pillows.
roaring ami foarning and lashing OH
every side, and more than two hours
passei before they could venture to
descend from their place of refuge.
| Wien they did come down at last
thew found themselves in the midst of
d scene of desolation which no words
can describe. b. one stroke the beau
tiful little fairy islet had been changed
into hideous desert. Trees were
torn up by the roots, or twisted round
like straws. Stones and gravel lay
heaped in uneven ridges, between
which lay deep pools of saltwater.
Hugh bowl,lers. hurled from their
place. stood stood gauntiy up amid the
dismal waste of bar wet sand that
Overspread al; the once green and un-
ny uplands, and the sea was rol:i.g
fsthems deep over the spot where their
boot had lain high upon the beach
Onlv few hours before.
To look for any place of encamp-
ment amid such chaos was simply
hopeless Shlvering with cold and
terri r, the forlorn party crept back 70
their sheltering rock. There. with the
waters SURFING about them like dull
funeral "ail. they covered all through
the long, dreary night.
The next morning our castaw ways
were luckily seen by u passing steamer.
which sent boat to take them off.
Nothing more was ever heard of their
own boat. or of poor old Stephan"s.
whose superstitious fears hid brought
down destruction upon him by the
very means which ne took to avoid
it ; and although the excursionists re-
NAMED some time longer in Greek
waters, their first island picnic was
also their last -Harner's People