Show A BOAT TRAGEDY A 14 of the th danber o 0 of this service the union squadron investing charleston Char leiton during the civil war was wa drawler closer and doeer closer to the doom ed od place one of the warship warships that lay closest inshore was the housatonic and that vessel was selected isted Ic ted as the torpedo boat boats victim the cortland lort lani land transcript fill tells the tragic the evening of feb 17 1365 closed in raw and foggy at I 1 capt corlon gave the command and the boat dropped down tas u river ai As the clock clocks we wre striking the bait halt hour in the e city ity the little craft pulled over the bar noiselessly she gilded glided through the water guided by the lights on the housatonic for which the he headed bo go heavy wai was the fox tot that she escape escaped ii the notice of the entries sentries at a quarter to nine ahe she lay directly in front mat of the housatonic Houi at a distance of are hundred yuda she WM was running falter faster now dow and find a little farther on an ahe be bom to submerge two hundred yard yards more and ate disappeared fire five minutes later ater there was A dull roar and the water around the Hoim toni boiled like a caldron the noble ship gave a mighty upward w d h 7 a ye and then be baga tife 01 can to bettie emilen 8 ngu ll iton and four sailors bailors who were below perished but fortunately for tho rest of the crew crow the water was shallow and they rated saved themselves by into the rit rig gini ging the vessel was a total losa lose bat but the submarine torpedo boat was nowhere to be found two years after the war when the wreckage wu being removed from charleston harbor the on fatoula was raised in her hull there was a ghastly wound inflicted by the torpedo and in that hole bole was the torpedo boat with every man on boud still at his hie post where he had died years before the little boat had torn a bit big bole in the cruiser through which the water bad poured in such a volume that the torpedo boat was drawn into it it and there its crew crow died of suffocation in the grasp of the en an emy which they bad had destroyed |