Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-24

B luCAl duNdute 10 the VI atls ~ hach al ptCu
! beaten in sufficiently 20 lC, them through.
| Ii they succeeded i'm clearing this breach,
they would spread themselves over the
town, and the 0esiegCd too weak 10 re-
slst, would have to abandon lt, and, with
the sanguinary temperament of the pi-
rates, the victory would be followed by a
( general massacre.
| The Gsnd-to-hand struggle at this point
| was terrible. L nder the Doctors orders,
who stood as impossible in the danger as
| he was invulnerable amid the bullets,
| Pierre and his companions performed
/ prOdigies OF yalOr, and Point Pescade
ana Cape Matitou lent their assist
snce, and displayed the most brilliant au-
/ daclty.
The Hercules. with a knife in one hand
and an axe in the other, kept clear the
| space around him.
GO it, my Cape, go it! Down with
them" shouted Point Pescade, whose re-
VolNer, necessarily recharging and dis
charging, was going Ike a Gatling.
But the foe would not yield. After be-
ing many times driven out OF the breach,
they had again swarmed on to the attack
and we're slowly fighting their way
through, when they suddenly found them
selves attacked in the rear.
The Ferrato had managed to get into a
! commanding position within three cable
/ lengths OF the shore. and with her car
ronsdes all brought to the one side, her
long chaser, her Hotchkiss cannons, and
her Calling mitraIlleuses, she opened
suca tire on the assailAnts that they
were mown@Own as the grass before the
scythe. She attacked them la the rear
and cannonaded them on tbs beach at the
same Tune so as to destroy and sink the
boats which had been m0Orcd round the
rocks.
The blow was aterrible one, and wa
quite unexpected by the SenOuslsts. Nos
only were they taken in the rear, but alt
means OF escape would be cut oil if tbeil
vessels We're knocked to pieces by thr
guns Of the FeTratO. The ASSISTANTS hese
itatsd IN the breach that the militia were
defending 30 obstinately. Already more
than 800 mad met their deaths, while the
beaieYed had lost but few.
The leader Of the expedition saw that
he must Immediately retreat TO sea or eX-
pose nls companions 10 certain and COM
piete destruction. In vain Sarcany de-
mauded That they might continue the at
tack on the town. The order was given
to return TO the shore; and the Senousists
drew OH as if they would be killed to the
last man, were the orders given them to
die.
Butit was necessary to give these pi-
rates a lesson they would never forget.
"FOrw ard, my friends! torwardp shout
Ell the doctor.
And under the orders Of Pierre and Iu-
/ igi, hundred OF the militia threw them
selves on to the fugiUyes as they retreat
ed 60 the beach. Between the ire Of the
/ terrato and the fire from the batteries, the
/ SenOusists had to give way. Their ranks
! broke In disorder, and they ran in crowd
to the seven or eight vessels that still
were left 10 them.
! Pierre and Luigi, amid the confusion,
] % "a oil IN
man prisoner. That man was Sarcany.
But they wished to nave him alive, and
it was only by a miracle that they escaped
the revolver shots the scOundrel fired at
them.
1t seemed, however, that fate would
again withdraw him from their hands.
Sarcany and the leader OF the SenOus-
lists, followed by dozen of their cOmpan-
ions, had managed TO regain a small pO-
lacca, which they had cast OF and were
preparing to get under way. The Ferra-
TO was too far off for them to signal ner
to pursue, and it looked as though she
would escape.
At the moment Cape Matifou saw a
deld-gun dismOunted from its carriage
and thrown on the beach.
To hurl himself on the still-loaded gun,
to lift It with superhuman force on to one
OF the rocks, to steady il by the trunnions
and IN voice of thunder 20 shout Come
heIe, Pescadel Here"' was the work Of
a moment.
Pescade heard Matifou's shout, and saw
what he had done; instantly ne under
stood, ran up, pointed the gun at the po-
lacca, and tired.
The shot went clean through the hull.
The recoil hardly shook the living gun
carriage. The leader of the SenOusists
and his companions were pitched into
the water and, for the most part, drown
ed. Sarcany was struggling with the
surfwhen Luigi threw himselfinto the sea.
4 minute afterwards Sarcany was safe
in the huge hands OF Cape Maufou.
The victory was complete. OF the 1000
assailants who had landed on the island,
only few hundred escaped to the eyre
nalc to tell the story of the disaster.
Antekirtta would, it could be hoped, for
many year be free from another attack
from pirates.