Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-15
DROPPED INTO THe SEA.
Boys Miraculous Escape from 8 Savag
 Oeaan V,1Itrro

Boys Miraculous Escape from 8 Savage
 Ocean yulture.
 An old sea captain says, in relating re- cent incident in his experience to a San Francisco Examiner reporter: "One day the mates son, lad of fifteen years. fell overheard. A sailor named Banning leaped into the water after him. The sea water in this neighbornood is 10 cold that d man can not live much longer than twenty five or thirty minutes in it. The attention of every man on board was given to the two men in I the water, but when one sailor raised his eyes and saw an enormous bird making di- rect for the boy he emitted cry of terror, which was joined in by every one as soon as they saw it. It did not resemble a cloud, nor did it carry rock in ;ts talens, but it was an enormous creature that no two men would care to battle with under any cir cumstances- When Banning raised his eyes and saw the bird his first thought was to turn around and make for the ship. FeaR took possession of him, and his strokes grow less powerful. Seelng Earnings danger James Gray jumped in after him. Just as he reached the water the great creature reached the boy, who was grow ing very faint. At first the bird seemed undetermined what to do. It pecked at the [ boy about the body, needing not the shouts of the sailors who sought to frighten it away. It was some time before the boat could be lowered, and by the time it was let into the water and manned the boy had gone down once His sudden disappearance sur prised the bird, which was about to turn it's attention to Banning, when the boy came to the surface again. I ran to my cabin and returned with 8 rifle to shoot the bird should it grow ugly. When I got ou deck the grst thing l saw was the strange creature rising into the air with the boy, and its mate, which suddenly appeared, almost as large, was attacking Banning. He was on hls back, lodging the beak of his adversary and swlmmlng toward the vessel with all his might. 1 was never more excited in my life. 1 hardly knew what to do The boy was being carried away and was up thirty or forty feet In the air Shoot the blrd, , yelled the mate, running about the deck like crazy man and shouting at the top of his voice orders that were not obeyed. In shooting l, of course, ran the risk of killing the boy instead of the big bird, if, indeed, he was not killed by the fall; but there was not much time to think of this; the bird was still rising, and, after hasty aim, I fired. It was an excellent shot. A wing fell help less, as if l had broken it, and the bird
 
 second bird, when it saw the boat approach, left Banning and made fierce attack on one of the boatmen, striking him with it's foot blow that felled him to the bottom oi the boat. Another of the crew raised an oar and hit the bird with all his might when It flew away. Banning, Gray and the boy were picked up. The latter was un / conscious, but after good rubbing he was brought to Banning was bleeding about the face, and more or less injured about the body The wounded bird fought viciously when an attempt was made to capture It It was finally lassoed and taken on board Three weeks afterward it died The boy said that before he went down he felt him self losing consciousness and grabbed al the enormous bird that was lowering oyer him He caught Its feet and held on witt the grip of a drowning man. He partially regalned his sense in the air, but thought be was higher up than he really was anG did not dare to let Con