St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-12-27
CAN THIS BE TRuE2
A Captains Story of a Horrible Monster
Seen in Lake Michigan.

a Captains Story of a Horrible Monster
Seen in Lake Michigan.
Last season marine circles were all
torn up over the discovery of an alleged
Sea monster few miles off this port,
and subsequently when it was seen
again off Deaths Door by some fisher
men. The original discovery was
made by Captain Dick Brewer while
he was towing big mud scow past the
Marine Hospital Looking ahead out
of the pilot-house of his boat he saw a
large, black object about quarter of a
block distant, which he at first took to
be log. There was something in the
appearance of the object, however,
which impelled him to closer in
spection, and picking up his marine
glasses he leveled them in the direction
of the supposed log. To his astonish-
ment it began to move rapidly toward
the tug, and when within hundred
feet it stopped, raised its head, and
dived beneath the surface of the water
A lookout was kept on all sides of the
boat, but the strange monster did not
reappear. Captain Brewer described
the animal or fish or whatever it was
as being about eight feet in length,
covered with long black hair, and pos
sessed of an immense head, which was
cross between the heads of horse
and COW. A great, gaping mouth,
fringed with two sets of long, threat
ening teeth and two large eyes set close
10 the center of the animals forehead,
gave it a feroeioIs appearance. Subse-
duently an animal of pretty near the
same description swan alongside the
boat of two fishermen off Deaths
Door and frightened the pair so badly
chat they were taken sick and nearly
died. Others claimed to have seen this
inland sea monster, but their state
ments were not credited, and whenever
the story was repeated the narrator
was scofed into silence. The story
was very forcibly revived yesterday by
the experience of the crews of the tugs
Miller and Tom Brown, and, coming as
it does from two direct sources, it can
no longer be doubted that marine
monster, rivaling even the most
hideous of Jules Verne's deep-sea ami
mails in point of size and ugliness, lives
and breathes in the waters of Lake
Michigan. Yesterday afternoon when
about mile east of the crib the stew
ard of the tug Miller was engaged in
filing his water barrel. He was
startled of a sudden by huge black
object rising to the surface of the
water right under the tugs port bow.
At first black hairy body, about eight
or nine feet in length, was visible, and
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jaws, which snapped viciously at the
tugs vale, was thrust out of the water. |
The cook recoiled and called to Cap
tain Neiman and the engineer to look |
at the monster. They all ran to the
bow of the boat, and corroborate the
story of the cook, whose description of |
the monster tallies closely with that of |
Captain Brewers. Captain Weiman
ran for the boats pipe-pole, but before
he could use it the strange object had /
A few minutes later it
was seen leisurely rolling about in the
water, a few hundred feet from the |
boat, ON the starboard side. As the |
Miller had the Mediator in tow Cap |
tain Weiman could not give chase to
the fish. or animal, or whatever it is,
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meath the surface of the water and dis
An hour or so afterward
the tug Success was passing Lincoln
Park about two miles in the lake with
two vessels in two. The deckhand, Ed.
Burke, was leaning over the rail con-
the water when he was
startled by huge animal rising out of
the water with roaring sound It
'oared as loud as a circus lion and
1arted toward the tug with a ferocity
and force which threatened to sink it.
Captain Everatt's attention was called
% the monster by the noise it made,
md he saw it also before it disappeared
nto the depths of the lake. Marine
men regard this story with undisguised
ncredulity, Notwithstanding that the
,rews of both tugs stoutly maintain
hat it is true in every particular. The
hing to do now is to capture the
monster and bring it ashore, so as to
rive scientists a chance at it. Every
BODY who has seen the thing says ii
bellows like a bull and can be heard
laif mile away. Chicago Inter Ocean.
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