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6lO ('REAT STORMS AND) VAST I)FSTR:CTIO'l(N.
whep the sun rose on that inlenorable Sunday morning and cast
its light on the horizon, and the shadows stole across tie ruin
and desolation that was over the beautiful city, Johnson and
Beckway were still in the arms of Morpheus. It was thought at
one time they were lost, but toward the latter part of the week
they seemed to have roused up, and so it was discovered they were
only partially lost. That is, they were lost in sleep.
I Captain Edwin Gouge of the " Kendal Castle," whose good
ship was aground off Texas City, and who, after he was forced to
be a landlubber for a time, was known as " the British consul of
Texas City," was in Galveston. In talking about his experiences
he said the "Kendal Castle" was lying in the coal elevator slip,
at the foot of Thirty-fourth street, during the storm, having both
anchors and about ioo fathoms of chain out. The steamship
'"Romla," which distinguished itself by bumping nearly everything
along the wharf front, and finally going through three
iagiroad bridges, came along and struck the "Kendal Castle," and
followiiil this the little steamisliip " Gvller" piled down on the
"Castle" steamer, breaking her loose and setting her adrift before
the wind.
AWFUL RIDE ON A SHIP.
The wind was so terrific and the rain so blinding that the
captain could not tell where she was going. The ship listed as
she drifted along before the wind. Then the captain felt her
straighten up and he knew she was aground. He has no idea
how far she had gone, but supposed tlat she had stranded'on the
north bank of the inner harbor channel. He put out his ladders
so that any unfortunate who light be struggling for life in the
sea might lay hold of it and come aboard. When the morning
broke he saw a water tower on shore and thought he was still
'lying near Fowler