Telegram-herald., 1890-07-12

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certain earth for lo,oVo years s~y,
fsllers. If shoGld i've u his age sAa1
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exact date. bar II was less thAn hua-
dred years sgo that wEs n command
OF the French ma2-cf-war Sein, and ny
mission On the high seas was 70 look Out
for and capture African slave traders
One moonlight night Is We were plow-
ing the swelling Atlantic a. the nominal
speed Of seFeaty-hge miles an hour the
lookout Al the mast head reported sal
On our lee quarter. / ordered the helm
thrown down hard ard as the huge snip
obeyoa the rudder her steel prov killed
nearly 800 fsh. But we had more at
stake than Gsh, AID we did not stop 20
take any OF them up. Ia short time
We were headed FOR the strange sail, and
IL wasn't long uneil from the quarter
deck could ses her plainly.
The sInol.-e stacks Of the Sein became
red hot. and one Of them melted 10 the
decks, bat | called for water, and the
ship wgs saved from destruction. We
did not lessen our speed for little thing
like that, bat continued to split tho
ocean open. Soon along, sinuous black
smoke ascended high above tbs masts OF
the chase. Then knew what we We're
after. Hastily beating the men 10 quar-
ters |, in the deliberate voice / use on
the Lincoln Lane gang, told them that
there was fun ahead. The vessel 200
miles ahead OF Us was a slave dhow. and
for the honor of ourselves particularly,
and France as a matter Of course, We
must capture her. And when We do
says /, you fellers know your business. ;
I For two days and nights we chased the
strange craft, and during that time / did
not sleep wink or eat inouthful of
food, was so excited. At xix bells on
the third day we were in shooting range,
and ordered the ten ton rife cannon to
be fred. The eighty ton shell fell ahead
of the SLAYER nearly two miles.
The effect on the water was terrific.
You notice said the shell weighed eighty
tons, and as it fell snto the ocean it ex-
/ ploded. The water raised in solid wall
that was, should judge, 900 feet thick
to an altitude of 1000 yards. 1t made a
hole that you could put the state house,
court house, insane asylum, blind asylum
and Union station into all at one and the
same time-that is, of course, if you had
them there. The slave ship plunged
against, at and into this wall, and then
came q mighty crash--a crash that was
caused, as l afterward learned, by an
island sixty miles distant being washed
from its base by the waves. The ship
/ penetrating the wall caused it to break
and the upheaved water fell in torrents,
while the SLAYER teetered on the brink Of
the huge abyss for moment and then
/ fell bow first into the hole, and the scat
tered fragments of the broken wall falling
upon her buried her from sight forever.
I'm few hours the sea was calm and
for two months we cr-nised in that vicin-
/ ity, but not sign of the lost SLAYER was
found. Two years after we picked up on
the coast Of Zanzibar water soaked
book that am satisfied was the log OK
the lost ship. According to the book the
dhow that we destroyed was the Lemon
/ Eared Nellie, from New Brunswick, and
she had 10000 slaves aboard, all of whom
were drowned. felt so bad about this
that / resigned my place in the French
navy and got job on the Indianapolis
! police force with more pay and less
work. Indianapolis Journal.