San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-12-01
SUBMERGED TREASURE.
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From tho Reading ,PaJ Times.

From tho Reading Pa Times.
The international Submarine Diving
Company, whose vessel, the Mary d.
Leech, has been quietly engaged in
searching for the location of her Bri.
fannie Majesty's brig bedrock, which
foundered June 10, 1898, off Loves,
has been rewarded with unmistakable
evidences of the lost vessel. During
the past eighty-three years no effort
with the exception of that made by the
British Government, in, 1870, has been
made to recover the fabulous treasure
which is known to have been sunk. 1t
has been abandoned as being irrevoca-
bly lost, because the depth of water is
so great that all appliances heretofore
invented for raising heavy bodies wer0
useless. The International Diving
Company, which was organizedin Phil
adelphia for no other purpose than to-
raise the abandoned treasure, is fitted
up with all that ingenuity can devise.
The most wonderful piece of mechan-
ism on board is animmenSe diving-bell,
in which diver might live comforta-
bly for a week. Hehas communication
with the upper world by telephone
wires. He is supplied with the means
of making his.own air, and ofor-light,in'
his exploration he is provided with a
powerful electric flame, hich, when in
operation, reveals to him every outside
object with vivid distin ctness, !, At the
side of the bell is mechanical arm,
with machinery so perfect in every
movement it resembles the action, Of
the human arm, eveilslnto the picking
up Of apin. 100 "a sfsssss'1s
a According to the papers in the pos
session of Samuel S.. McCracken, pi-
lot, whose grandfather was the only
survivor, and who was engaged in pilot
ing the vessel in the harbor, about $50, :
100000 of specie and Jewels went down
with her. The money was taken by the.
De Brook from an intercepted Spanish
feet willie on her way to Halifax, Eng.
land, from a successful cruise on the
Spanish Main. With the specie were
taken 200 prisoners. When the vessel
foundered the prisoners were in irons
on the lower deck, aid we're all lost.
Capt. James Drew, who commanded
the vessel, and whose body was, recoy-.
cred two days afterwards, lies sburiedin
st. Peters churchyard in Lewes Two
years after the wreck the British Gov.
eminent sent two frigates to fraises the
De Brook, but without success. Forty
years ago, while MeCracken was on a
cruise, circulars were posted around
Sussex County, Offering the sum of
$4,000 for information that would lead
to the discovery of the .sunken vessel.
It had been supposed uplto the present
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that the hull had Been swept away by
the action of the tides. The Interna--.
tional Company. to keep its real object
from view: had been since September
working at another sunken vessel, near
where the DE Brook was supposed to
have foundered. 2 McCrack zen, whois to
receive majority of whatever treasure
is discovered, in an interview says that
the De Brook lies in fifteen fathoms of
water. The. divers, in going down,
found a long, irregular ridge, about 10
feet high, Is feet wide, and 60 feet
long. NOn each side afetpiles' of loose,
stones, supposed : to be the ballast
thrown from the frigate in the effort.
made to raise the wreck, in rthe year
1S00e Rough weather interfering with
further operations, the company was
compelled to postpone further investi-
CATION, and on Wednesday the divers
returned to Philadelphia. The work,
however, will be vigorously pushed for
ward as soon as favorable weather sets
in.