The Brookhaven leader., 1884-12-25
CAN his BE IRuE2
a Captains Story OF u Horrible Monster
Seen In Lake Michigan.

Captains Story OF Horriblc Monster
Seen In Lake Michigan.
Last season marine circles were all
torn up over the discovery Of an alleged
sea monster few miles of this port,
and subsequently when 1t 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
large, black object about a 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 a 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 NOSE rapidly toward
the tug, and when within a hundred
feet it stopped, raised its head, and
Owed 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 a COW. A great, gaping mouth,
| fringed with two sets of long, threat
ening teeth and two large eyes set close
to the center of the animals forehead,
| gave it a ferocious appearance. Suisse
quently an animal of pretty near the
same description swan alongside the
boat of two fishermen off Death
Door and frightened the pair so badly
| that 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 scoffed into silence. The story
was very forcibly revived Yesterday by
! the experience of the crews of the tugs
Miller and Tom Brown, and, comingas
| it does from two direct sources, it can
no longer be doubted that marine
monster, rivaling even the most
| hideous of Jules Nerne's deep-sea ami
mails in point of size and ugliness, lives
and breathes in the waters of Lake
Michigan. Yesterday afternoon when
about a mile east of the crib the stew
ard of the tug Miller was engaged in
filling his water barrel. He was
startled of sudden by g 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
| then an immense head with distendcd
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, an6 corroborate the
story of the cook, whose description OF
the monster TALES closely with that OF
Captain Brewers. Captain Weiman
ran for the boats pipe-pole, but before
! he could use it the strange object had
| disappeared. A few minutes later it
was seen leisurely rolling about in the
water, 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,
but he watched it until it dived be
meath the surface of the water and dis
appeared 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
templating the water when he was
startled by huge animal rising out OF
the water with roaring sound. II
roared as loud as a circus lion and
darted toward the tug with ferocity
and force which threatened to sink it.
Captain Everatt's attention was called
to the monster by the noise it made
and he saw it also before it disappeared
into the depths of the lake Marine
men regard this story with undisguiSec
incredulity. notwithstanding that the
crews of both tugs stoutly maintain
that it is true in every particular. The
thing to do now is to capture the
monster and bring it ashore, so as tC
give scientists Il chance at it. Every
body who has seen the thing says i
bellows like bull and can be hearC
half a mile away Chicago Inter- Ocean