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struck heavy from the northeast, the tide
Immediately began to rise and in half
an hour a foot Of water covered the
island.
SIX FEET UNDER WATER.
At 1890 o'clock the gale was bowling
its worst, and six feet Of water covered
the island. 1t was a boiling, kissing,
seething sea, and the rain, driven by the
gale in binding torrents, penetrated
everything and blew against the faces Of
those exposed like chilled shot
The masters and crews of all the ves-
sells bravely faced the storm and remained
on board, none deserting their ships,
many being on deck from o'clock Sun
day afternoon till the sun smiled through
riffs in the storm-laden sky yesterday
morning to bring gladness to the hearts
OF those who had passed through the
trying ordeal, and to invite by its mild
ness, sleep to the wearied brain.
About $50 o'clock the wharves gave
way and the sea carried them against the
piling sustaining the officers quarters
and its human freight that were trusting
implicitly in their strength to hold them
up to see the dawn of another day. The
wind and sea dashed them against the
piling in its wild fury, and the little
house shook and trembled as the sea
lashed under the building.
DREDGE BOAT ADRIFT.
AS the sea and gale were raging at their
highest, one Of the dredge boats that had
carried away six anchors drifted toward
one of the i'll fated vessels screaming
with its steam whistle, seeming to add
horror Of death and drowning to the hor-
ror of the weight of it. The dredge
missed the vessel bat struck the house of
Light Keeper Johnson. The house
seemed TO turn as if on an axis and quiv-
er Mr.. Hugo johnson snatched his
7-year-old sister in his arms, went down
from the light into the darkness of the
hallway up to his neck in the water,
and calling others to follow, managed to
reached the dredge throwing his little
sister safel. on board, then was jammed
himself between the dredge and the
house but managed in some way to get on
board, how, he does not know, but he only
received a scratch
An old woman was left in the light
room and some one on the dredge threw u
sledge hammer through the plate glass
calling TO her to jump for life, but she re-
mained and was safe.
REACHED THE QUARANTINE.
After drifting a mile or more with the
dredge beyond the Tybee railroad the
young man leaped from the dredge into a
little boat saying II am going to see If L
can do anything to aid the doctor and his
people, and in the teeth Of the gale he
reached the station in safety and climbed
up the piling and was into the house
drenched, cold and shivering to ask If he
could do anything. Capt. Tonnesen Of
the bark Elma lowered his boat in the
gale and sent his men to give aid to the
light house as he had seen the lights 20
out.
THE LOSS MANY THOUSANDS.
The entire wharf of the upper quaran-
tine station was swept away and only a
few pieces Of the gangway were left. The
engine is down in the water. The bark
Mexico lying at this point jumped over
the piling.
AT the lower station the wharves are
gone, but the gangway remains. The dis
injecting plant, which is now in process
of erection, was slightly damaged, but to
what extent has not yet been determined.
But for this the city is not responsible, as
it is being built under contract, and it has
not yet been turned over to the city. A
temporary arrangement for carrying on
the quarantine against foreign vessels
has been made and will be perfected
within day or two.
DIR. Brunner estimates the damage done
the city's property at quarantine at $685.
coo, and he says the total loss of the
wreckage and everything else there will
reach somewhere near $500, 900 He had
received letter from Lieut. Cushing Of
the Boutwell, stating that the British
schooner Beatrice Mclean was lying
high and dry on the west side of st.
Catherine's Island The crews Of these
foreign vessels will be kept at quarantine
for the usual time.
PILOT BOATS EXPERIENCE.
Captain w. T. Daniels Jr., master Of
the pilot boat Belle, came up from Tybee
in the tug Paulsen. The Belle lies very
comfortably on the right-of-way of the
Tybee railway about two miles west Of
Lazaretto creek.
Capt. Daniels reports that his boat was
anchored in South channel under the lee
of Fort Pulaski when the storm began.
Both anchors were put out
and everything male snug The
vessel rode safely until o
O'Clock when she began dragging and
went on to McQueen's island, and stopped
only when she struck the railroad em-
banlxment about two miles west Of Laza-
retto bridge and 600 to 700 feet from south
channel.
The wind was terrific, and nothing was
of avail to keep the little vessel from
going ashore. No one could stand on deck,
and those aboard had to wait for her to
fetch up somewhere. They felt no un-
easiness about the boat, as she was strong
and could stand the dragging over the
marshes with comparative safety. Cap
tain Daniels, as soon as he arrived, saw
Capt F. M. Jones, the ship-builder and
contractor in regard to getting the Belle
afoat.
The complement of the Belle was w.