The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-31
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and barkentines stand. erect ana near 70
one another. hiEh and dry, with the per
spective Of an eighth full mile away, IN
land, 90 the right and OF ninth. totally
wrecked ou Tybec beach, 20 the left-tO
have devised this OrGgrOf oismantlemeut,
saddeniug and thrilling Go see. it would
seem the s. hCme of the gale must have
possessed precCuceptiOn and motive not
less than might and fury
At the quarantine landing are two long,
parallel wharyes, at right angles with
the river. They are several hundred feet
apart. possibly twenty feet high AT the
abutmeut. and between them, along the
river front. are groups of driven piles at
short intervals. Three sides of great
quadrangle are thus barricaded, and the
space within is a deep basin or bed OF
ballast rock.
VESSELS LIFTED LIKE TOYS.
One might have a wonderful ideal Of
the maximum possibilities Of full-swing-
inc hurricane. and still never dream it
could have had the tact and power TO put
q pOnderOuS vessel within this corral.
Yet the storm of Sunday smiled as it
grasped two massive banks. and, lifting
them clear Of the hiEh and strong tim
bers, set them squarely upon their bottoms,
in contact with each other, upon the dry
and hard interior.
A noticeable spectacle just beyond the
Quarantine landing is that Of
two banks. similar in size and
general appearance, near TO each
other and about an equal distance inland,
which are also identical as to the charac-
ter of the damage inflicted by the gale.
Both are stripped OF masts and spars,
save only as to their lower mizZen maSts.
So alike are they that one may be said TO
be the mirage of the other
The Cosmo. the barkentine which alone
rode out the storm of that fearful night,
now bows at anchor, saucy in aspect, as
though conscious of her unequaIed feat.
REGULARITY OF THEIR POSTURE.
With the exception of the Harold,
beached broadside on Tybee point. all the
disabled vessels eff the quarantine group
sit solidly upon their bilges, their top
masts straight toward the Sky. While it
is likely that gravity would have much to
do with the settling of a vessel upon her
straightest angle, it must be considered
that gravity was not very much con
cerned with matters on Sunday night.
The theory is that these vessels were
generally on their beam ends during the
first storm, but were righted by the sec
ond, which, at the same time, blew back
the water from under them, having come
from an exactly opposite direction
1t is claimed that but for this, nearly all
the vessels would have been drawn of
into deep water soon after the lull
and with no great effort. Be this as it
may, while the unique assembly of
stranded and dismantled vessels, or any
of them, remain in their extremity they
viii be curious objects to observers and
are worthy some cost and trouble to see.
MAY BE ALL SAVED.
While the devices and characteristics
Of storms may have undergone improve
ment, the strides Of human wisdom and
contrivance have outrun the progress of
the elements: The Borean hand which
held those two ships high in air and then
pompously lowered them into an appar-
emily inextricable pen may some day
find its equal in power in
the different methods of application Of
mechanical strength by which to-day
man standing upon a substance OF twenty
times greater weight than his own can
lift in air the entire mass, himself in
cluded, by simply hooking his smallest
finger into loop and drawing the tensor
sinews of his hand. Thus these ships
one OF which is six thousand feet from
the sea-may some fine morning awake to
find their monster hulls being waited
back toward the deep by agencies aslave
TO the yet mdeveloped fullness of the
genius of man.