The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-06-05
CAST UP BY TIE SEA.
Strange Recovery Of Ship That
Was Sunk Fifty Years Ago.
The Wreck Literally Incrusted with Sea
Shells Presents Picturesque APP
pesrance-A Mystery of
q the Deep.

THE Norwegian bark Elsa Andersen
ccame into Galveston day or two ago
with a strange-looking vessel in tow.
This was a very small brig of English
build dismasted and in need of repairs,
which had been sunk more than fifty
years ago, judging from its ancient ap-
pearance and awkward rigging, SO
sailors who have looked at it told
IPliitadelphia Times correspondent. On
1.-THE afternoon of the nth of February,
off the coast of the Farce islands,
+. where the Elsa Andersen had been
blown by a recent gale, there was VI
: rSttznt upheaval of the sea, about two
miles distant from the spot where she
was riding, that sent several waves
sweeping over her which did much dam
age and threatened to submerge her en-
tirely. When the alarm which this
sudden sea had subsided there was seen
about a mile off wreck which had not
been there before the upheaval OF the
DO ottom of the sea, a phenomenon cor
responding to an earthquake on land.
The wreck excited much interest among
tho officers and passengers OF the Nor
V1egian vessel and an order was issued
to approach the strange craft, when it
was seen that the remains of her rig
CIng, stumps of masts, and the hull it.
self were covered by thousands of sea
shells, causing the wreck to present the
appearance of the miniature ships of
sheIIworlx to be purchased at any sea-
side town. The leaks which had sunk
the vessel were now stopped by an ac-
cumulation of barnacles, and the dere-
Hct rode the waves like a duck.
A boatload of sailors was dispatched
to board the wreck, and they found the
save for n few feet of water, which,
covering the cargo, had sunk her. But
this cargo and the other contents of the
ship were entirely destroyed, most of
the former having been devoured by the
lIenizens of the deep. In what had evil
IDENTIFY been the captains berth were
found several iron-bound chests, which
had resisted to some extent the ravages
OF the time and the sea, but, on being
opened, the contents were found to be
reduced to a sort of pulp, with the ex-
ception of leather bag. This had be-
come hardened until 1t was necessary
to break it open with an ak, when from
1t poured a quantity of rusty disks;
which, being cleaned, proved to be
golden guineas of the year 1909 and
amounting to the sum of five thousand
and twenty five dollars. There were
also several watches of gold and a
stomacher of pearls; these, however,
are valueless, having been blachened by
the action of the water.
The wreck was attached to the Elsa
Andersen by cable and towed to Gal
weston, where it attracted crowds of
visitors. On the fourth day after its de-
tachment from the bottom of the sea by
the quake, the water was all pumped
out of the derelict, when it was found
to contain three skeletons, two of them
of men and the other a woman's, this
last being of a person of gigantic build,
and in life of nearly seven feet in
height. About the neck of one of the
male skeletons was a chain of gold, to
which was attached a silver crucifx
and evidently rosary.