Show A TORPEDO DOAT tragedy A sad bud of if tile ilia danger Iii Kr of TO thin 1 fr arvie vIe tho the union squadron squad ion investing charleston during the ibe civil war was wa di dialing aa ing closer and closer to the doom ed cd place one of the warships A that lay iny closest inshore was aaa tho the and that vessel oa as selected as tho the torpedo boats boat a victim ibe portland land transcript tells the tragic story rho rhe evening of I 1 teb eb 17 choked in raw end and foggy at 8 0 clock capt coi bisou gave the command and the boat dropped down tho the river As aa the clocks beio striking tile tho halt air hour in the city the little craft pulled over the bar noiselessly she glided through tho tha water guided by the lights on tho the housatonic tor for which sho headed so bo heavy was the tog fog that she eho escaped the notice of the scuttles at a api to nine she lay directly in front fron t of the at a distance of five hundred yards she was running taster now and a little farther on she eho began to lo submerge I 1 i w 0 hundred bardi more an I 1 she disappeared live 1 ive rill minutes litter later there was vas a dull roar and the tha water around the lions Hou Bitonto boiled like a caldron the noble phlp gave a mighty upward heave and then began to settle I 1 insign hazleton and four sailors vho aho were below perl perished shed but fortunately tor for the lest of the crew the water was as shallow and they saved themselves by climbing into the ilia rigging the i essel ni was as a total loss loso but the submarine boat was waa nowhere to be found two years after the war when the wreckage was wan being removed from charleston harbor tho the was raised in her hull bull there was aas a glattly wound mound inflicted by the torpedo rind and in that bole was the torpedo boat with eory enory man on board still at his post where ho be had died years before the little boat had bai torn a big hole in the cruls pr through which the water had poured in such a volume that tile torpedo boat was drawn into it and thora there its crew died of suffocation in the ginop of the enemy which they had |