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scudding 100 feet down the river. This last at-
| tack seemed to satisfy the monster, for, with a
hotyl, ne st1uuenly SUNK beneath the surfara
and shot down the channel, going at speed
which Capt Carraway atIirms must have
! reached forty miles an hour As be moved
! away no part OF the body was visible, but the
pointed wave that rolled before showed its
course, while in its wake the waters rushed lika
| thuse OF mll-uAru
SUDDENLY LET LOOSE.
| In two minutes he was out Of sight.
| In the meantime. Henry Decker, the hand WIN
was precipitatel from the barge, swan to an.
! other barge and c1ambercd safely up the sides.
with no greater damage than thorough dEench-
| ing and slight confusion on the head. made hy
4 falling piece OF coal. The engine had been
stopped when the first shock came. It was mt
| II, motion AS soon as it was apparent that the
danger had passed, and Capt Carraway SCI
about securing the detached barge. By the
time he reached it it was 300 yards down The
river, and in sinking condition. The front end
had already sunk, and the stern was raised ten
feet above the water. As the towboat an
preached the wreck swung around, and close
view showed that the bottom had been ripDe1
in liaIf-:lozen places, tue portions Of the gun.
wales still out III the water were split and snln
tered as il m AZ had been used to cut and tear
them to pieces. At one point the gunwa|e
was torn off the entire depth. As the towboat
foatetl against the wreck, one Of the hanis
called Capt. Carraway's attention to stranca
boat. 1t had the appearance OF q huge splinter
but its appearance was So singular that Cant
Carrawuy's curiosity WIS aroused, and he
steamed immediately BY the object, in orler ia
see what it WIS .Upou close view it wax di,
covered that it was nothing more nor less than
a piece Of tile monsters bill, which had been
splintcred of and left in the gunwale Of the
boat. An effort was made to pull the splinter
out but this undertaking was found too tlitlicult
to accomplish, as it was driven entirely throuoh
ff,at tit,,ft f,ct hor 8:
were part and parcel of the barge. Axes were
brought, aud the gunwale chopped down IN
either side, and the piece containing the splnter
split off. An examination showed the splinter
TIE MONSTERS B1LL.
At one end it was twelve inches broad, eradu-
ally sloping until it reached 3 sharp point Il
was quite thin, and looked as If it might be a
mere outward covering fo7 the end OF the lower
mart Of the bill. 1t was neither hor1, nor bone.
but appeared more like ivory, though almost a.
tough and hard as steel In color it was dark
green and brown, mixed and varied, though The
larger End was almost black. The piece weighed
eighteen pounds, this heavy weight showing the
the beak.
An hour was spent at the wreck, when Can't.
Carraway, seeing that tue coal was total loss
and the barge in such condition that he could
do nothing then to save it, steamed on, reaching
Memphis about o'clock 1T night. where he re
lated his strange adventure, aud exhibited the
splinter from the monsters bill. or conrsc. fhe
majority Of people are skcptical about stories
relating tn monsters. and many we're inrrrtln.
1ous, but those who knew Cant. Carr,way feIt
certain that whatever he might reIate conld h.
depcnGcd on Us truthful in every resnect.
There certainly cannot be longer ilonat that
the Niss;.sjnni Is inhahtcd with = Tnonst.r thn.
not o,jv ran:.s in h,r-ii nronortions 1rth 10
1ahlc,l creatures If t,.Iinn. but nnc That m,r IN
1nt,..l. tn Interfere with frcr and nnnter-T1tsJ
commcrcc On tj,e rrc,r rirer II is nndsn;ahIs
that amone rtvrr 7nrn there isa feel;no ~ in
sennritr and # has l,ren s,,orostei th,t ~.
,natfer;s ~ s1r ,nnnr,anra fha, m arno1;,;nn
n,,~ht ,n hc oroanizrd unlcr Gnrrrnn.p, Insn1
,r7,ncnt to limit down and annihII,ta 1hn 1er;a-
tron The Vow n,iriI Gn-etts 1fro,n NV uh;~h
n1ana +h,. T:inie ns,n,rr,, nuhlishna soa;a1 H..