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_ BEAUTIFUL BUT POOR. 181 TERRIBLE STORM! See es WRECKS ALL ALONG OUR COAST! The Heroism of a Miss Hattie Butler Saves Over Four Hundred Lives on a Sound Steamer! OUR OWN REPORTER WAS ON BOARD THE ENDANGERED AND NEARLY WRECKED STEAMER. ; [Full Particulars by Telegraph. } For a little while he was so blinded that he could not: read another word, a mist seemed to come be- tween him and the paper. But ina little time a re- action came. He grew calm, and then he reada long and thrilling telegraphic report of the storm, how the vessel, swept by adverse currents, ran far out of her course, and while battling with a most terrible tempest in a sea which deluged her decks, was on the very point of running on shore, when a young lady who had preferred to watch the wild grandeur of the storm rather than to rest in the shelter of her state-room, had, while clinging to the stays near the pilot-house, discovered the danger neither pilots nor captain could see, rushed to the pilot-house and given the alarm only barely in time to have the course altered, the engines reversed, and the boat backed. The name of the heroine who had saved the ves- sel and so many precious lives was Miss Hattie But- ler, a passenger going from New York to Boston. Further particulars would be sent by mail, written cS mn Gomichboo €oO