The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-06-11
'Ts o
4 STEAMER sTAsps HON AND DRy
OVEN TWO MILES INLAND.

OVER IWO MtA&0 INLAND.
a 1sdai wave That Carried Away Every.
tAiAg bat . LiShthoase and Daseroysd
over 10000 Lszjil-The stsamer Intact
sa. i. In tn. Of : suasl..
Tourists that M Batavia nowadays
are ouite ont Of TIL fashion Il they fail
TO make the pasSage through Sunda
strait and zee all thst b left Of Krakatua
and the vestiges os tha ruin wrought by
the terrible erupttpn OF 1882. II they
push up the Bay az Laxnpong, on the
6umstra side Of the channel. they are
likely TO land on the low shores occu-
pied by the village u Telokh- Betoug,
and hire carts for . Sh0Ft jaunt into the
interior; and when th9y have gone about
two miles they win panqe to take In the
curious scene preeenteai Cor here 10 seen
one Of the most interee N1 results Of the
great wave Of Kraksta
There was just one meA amid all that
Wild scene Of death and yastation who
was not overwhelmed 81 the common
ruin. He escaped while & 400 persisted.
He was tho lighthouse E4SpeF, who lived
alone on an isolated rock the strait.
It was broad Daylight wfRR Krakatau.
burst asunder, but in aS1sN moments
the heavens were 90 denseahrouded by
dust, mud and smoke that NJ darkness
Of midnight covered alt fh1 channel
The guardian Of the ighth6Aee was in
the lantern 100 feet above thaGsea level.
Here he remained safe and sound in the
midst Of the terrible commntion.
he felt the trembling 90 The light
house, but it was 90 dark that he could
not see the threatened DANCES. He did
not know that tremendous wave had
almost overwhelmed the lighthouse,
and that its crest had nearly touched
the base Of the lantern. He did not hear
It because he was deafened By The awful
defamation Of Krakatua.
In few moments tho ware, over a
hundred feet in height, had sWept along
. coast line Of hundred mild On both
sides Of the channel
Scores ofpopulous villages were buried
deep beneath the avalanche 81 water.
Great groves Of coeoanut palms were
leveled to the ground. Pro4ntories
were carried away. New bayeNieed dug
ont Of the yielding Httoral ExSe2wofk
Of human hands except that house
was destroyed, and 10000 pell06 per-
ished In the deluge that mou4t from
the t.. :e :. Of beneath the rain Of M that
A little 6dewheel steamboat Wa borne
on the top Of that wave through f1rests
and jungle. over two miles into It'd eoun-
try. and was left as the wave re0eded
It win b remembered. that fol- 4eeks
before the final cataclysm at Krak3tau,
the volcano was In state Of esaplion.
Pleasure parties were made up ~ Be-.
tsvia 70 visit the volcano. Not q few
people landed ON the island, little dxHasn-
ing that In the twinkling Of an eye Two
thirds Of It was to be blown into the air
% though shot from gun. They wieiisd
70 Get a. neAE a. they thought theyt AlRht
safely venture to'the gzowling. steaalng
crater. sYs
This little steamboat, on the day 10
fore tho explosion, carried one Of fAese
parties to the ialand. There were only
twenty on board besides the crew. 1hey
spent couple Of hours around thnTiS.
land and then steamed up the deem and
narrow Bay Of Lampong. and It 4 snp-
posed they anchored for the nighf In
front Of the big town Of Telokh- Beton8,
which was one Of the largest settlements
on yho t0uth coast Of Sumatra.
4Ns u fated pleasure party wae never
beard oe again. It 10 supposed that the
boat was turned over and over like an
eggshell in the gurf. It had every ap-
peaFsnce Of suc@ 1nugh usage when it
wss found somS SAUuths later. The ma.
chinsry and furniture were badly broken
and were strewn about in the greatest
confusion. But the vessel held together,
and was finally set down in good shape.
erect on her keel.
Only two bodies were found in the
vessel. They were, Of course, below
deck. As it was morning when she was
picked mp by the wave It 10 supposed
that nearly everybody. was on shore.
Not q .yestige rewsins. Of the villages
that lined the water edge. But the hulk.
Of this little boat still stands. battered
and broken. though. 80 erect 40 when
she pjowed the channel. and she 10 the
most curious and interesting relic of the
greatest volcanic eruption OF modern
tines. New York Sun.
The VenOm ar snahna