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Updated: May 17, 2025
The steamer had disappeared in a few moments, its prow sinking in the waters and then its smokestacks taking on a vertical position almost like the leaning tower of Pisa, and its rudders turning crazily as the shuddering ship went down. The narrator began to be left alone. Other shipwrecked folk, telling their doleful tales at the same time, were now attracting the curious.
"No " said Lord Hastings; "this cruiser has four smokestacks; the Emden has but three." "They could easily rig up another one," said Jack. "Lord Hastings, some way I feel that all is not right." "Nonsense," replied Lord Hastings. There was the sound of a shot from one of the Russian cruisers. "She'll show her colors now," said Lord Hastings. All glanced toward the approaching vessel.
Not far in the distance two tall smokestacks of blackened tin rose high in the air, above the roof of a steam laundry, one very large like the stack of a Cunarder, the other slender, graceful, with a funnel-shaped top.
And pretty soon we could hear her puff, and see all the lights and see the fire and the sparks shoot out of the smokestacks; and as far as I could see, there wasn't no one but Mitch and me watchin' her and waitin' for her to come in. It seemed she'd never get in. She puffed and blowed. The current must have been awful strong.
And sure's you're born, they all got off Afore the smokestacks fell; And Bludso's ghost went up alone In the smoke of the Prairie Belle. He weren't no saint but at the judgment I'd run my chance with Jim 'Longside of some pious gentlemen That wouldn't shake hands with him.
Sherman went in person on the 16th, taking with him Stuart's division of the 15th corps. They took large river transports to Eagle Bend on the Mississippi, where they debarked and marched across to Steel's Bayou, where they re-embarked on the transports. The river steamers, with their tall smokestacks and light guards extending out, were so much impeded that the gunboats got far ahead.
Her cargo was a very rich one, and among the passengers were twenty-nine Spanish soldiers and officers. These were taken on board the Nashville. Meanwhile, the Marblehead and the Eagle had disposed of the gunboats. It only took them half an hour to drive them back into the harbor, with their smokestacks shot off, and several of them in a sinking condition.
The people on board of the strange steamer must have been as much in the dark in regard to the caliber of the naval vessel as those on board of the Bellevite were in respect to their confident rival. The chase was a long craft, it could be seen now, with two masts and two smokestacks, all of which raked in the most dashing style.
I watched a moment, and presently she ambled across the street and rattled the door of the "ladies'" entrance to the saloon on the corner. Then I turned my face toward the reddening east, against which the shabby housetops and the chimneys and the distant spires and smokestacks stretched out in a broken, black sky-line.
Going along the dock I saw two small smokestacks sticking up, and looking down saw a little boat. 'Where is the steamer that goes across the Channel? 'This is the boat. There had been a storm in the North Sea that had carried away some of the boats on the German steamer, and it certainly looked awful tough outside.
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