Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-08-04
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s5slslnsF " sstphzlls frs1a Hamburg russ-
day, Let -IEh saeA startling s4rpFts~
~asn BE iA1isi a. Castle 64rdsa 1n2t hs
tainted dad away, AL q Is feared thAs he
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siOnsrs II ELni graEi0a frOa2 Tscsi sing in
sa0s immigrants.
Whsa AugsascAiAser ssnt Oh boArd the
steamer a. Hamburg - succeeded Ia
anu ggllng as favoFits d4ehshaad Biaehsr
into Lhs ship. de had heard that there
we're foxes in the State Of Wisconsin
where be vas soiag, and hs wanted his
daehshgnd ~ ~ into the foxes holes and
pull them out
TIE body Of the dachshand was fully
two and half feet long, bgt the length Of
bis legs as noG more than SIX inches. His
body was q mixture Of black and tan. and
his fore paws stood cut as right angles
with his body.
Everything went well with Augenschls-
ger and his dAehshund until one day the
burlssqns on toe canine species escaped
from the steerage, and was soon after
! found by the cook ia the galley, helping
himself 20 huge piece OF meat Augen-
schiager missed the dog just in time 70
run up or deck and sos the cook drag
Bluehsr by the tail 70 the ships side aud
| hurl him into the middle Of the Atlantic
Ocean
Augenschlager had committed an ofense
IN smuggling his dachshund aboard tho
ship and, Of course. had nothing 10 say.
/ He merely went below and wept
It was durln. the forenoon OF Thursday,
May 2l, that Augenschlager saw his dog
thrown overheard On stepping ashore at
I Castle Garden Tuesday his attention was
at once attracted 10 dog shat lay curled
up and trembling on one corner OF the
dock and which looked remarkably like
his lost dachshund.
"Komst du HER Blucherl" said Augen-
schlager with half stified voice.
The dog responded by creeping up TO
Augenschlager's feet, for sure enough 10
was Blucher.
Augenschlager threw up his hands, ex-
claimed "Mein Lieber Gott IL is Blucher's
ghost" and then swooned. He was cared
for by fellow passenger, as was also the
dachshund, which had manifested no sur
prise at all on meeting his master under
such strange circumstances The unfort-
innate immigrants talk became very wild
and incoherent, and it is thonght that ne
will become permanently insane.
News Of the remarkable occurrence
spread rapidly, and finally came To the
ears OF Ernest Picard, who was passen-
ger in the French steamer Normandie,
which had arrived a few hours ahead of
the Westphalia.
Picard said that on the afternoon OF
Thursday, May 81, the Normande ran into
a whole SCHOOL of iceb rgs. The wealth
er was foSgy and the ship laid TO or pro-
ceeded under low sail for several hours.
While the ship was at standstill the at
tention OF some of the sailors was attract
Ell to a strengthening animal in the wa
ter, which was taken for a seal brought
from the Arctic regions by one of the
bergs.
The animal swan straight up to the
ships side, and sailor got down and
easily pulled it in. The animal was then
found To be German dachshund, and,
what seemed strangest of all, he had in his
jaws beef's liver and lungs. commonly
called the "pluck-"
The dachshund was Augenschlager's
Blucher, aud the buoyant pluck which he
had stolen from the galley OF the West
phalia had helped him to keep afloat for
nearly six hours
The Normandie, after getting clear oi
the icebergs, passed the Westphalia, and
Blucher was landed at Castle Garden with
the rest of the passengers, in advance ol
those who came in the steamer from Ham
burg. He refused to follow Picard, who
had adopted" him, and remained on tn,
dock, as if he expected his old master Il
arrive in due time