The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-30
DoG-INFEsTED ISLAND.
Wild Brutes Which Would Eat
Man, IT'S Said.
From the Boston Globe

man, It's Said,
From the Boston Globe.
Portland, Oct. 25. - Where is John
Stoae" is a question many persons are
asking themselves to-day, and there is no
one who can answer. He may have been
eaten by the half famished wolf-dogs of
Little Green Island, or he may be still
drifting at sea.
Saturday last, Mr.. Stone, Sr., a resi-
dent of Green Island, came 10 this city
and TO the hospital He submitted TO an
! operation, at first seemed TO be better.
then rapidly grew worse and died Sun
day.
Saturday afternoon his son John, a boy
of about IA, left Green Island In n sail
boat and started for what is known as
Little Green Island, where Mr. Stone
owned land.
He did not return, and the afflicted
family made what search they could for
the absent boy. 1t was found impossible
TO reach the smaller island, the sea having
grown very rough after the storm.
Yesterday man came here and asked
Capt. ID. l.. Began of the tug c. A War
rem to go in search of boy and boat Capt.
Began was unable to do so, the sea being
too rough TO make the attempt promise
| success.
There were facts that almost drove the
! ~ ANAuS VI tLt bpN lIhnblC. l4llllC NIfeRn
Island is populated with dogs cross be-
tween ST Bernard and a mastiff, as
wild and as savage as so many wolves.
There Is popular tradition that many
years ago vessel was wrecked there,
aud that four big dogs went ashore. just
how many of these wolf dogs" as they
are called, there may be ON the island
! nobody knows, but at this time of the
year they would be dangerous TO any one
who might land thore
Capt Began ordered a boat to be
lowered, went as close to the island as
he could with his tug and then
|, sounded his whistle.
The boy may hear it," he said to his
mate.
Before it had died away there came a
sound as if pack of wolves had started
out on the track of game, and in an in
slant the beach in front seemed 10 be lit
! orally covered with great, gaunt, savage
dogs.
If John Stone torched there and fell
into the midst of these savage and half
! starved dogs the result of the struggle
need not be told
This morning Capt. Began made an at
! tempt to reach Little Green Island, but
! the surf was too high. He couldn't land,
| and had the boy been there he Couldn't
! have made his way outward through the
! surf
They were mad for blood, and dashed
| into the surf as far as they could. Capt.
| Began does not doubt that If they could
have reached the tug they would have
made life and death struggle with the
crew.
Capt. Began was obliged to put Off. and
blew his whistle many times, but without
| getting a reply from the boy He then re-
| turned to Portland, but will make sec
ond attempt to find the boy and restore
him to his stricken family.
There is still a chance, but apparently
a small one, for the boy. At the time he
made the attempt to cross over to the
smaller island there WAS a head wind,
and Capt. Began doubts if he could have
made landing at all. If he did not he
might have been lost in the storm that
| followed 50 suddenly, the more especially
as it was accompanied bva fog that made
it impossible to make out even the out
lines Of things at sea.
He understood the management of a
boat and was what is called on the coast
a good of shore sailor He may have
made landing on some one Of the many
islaudS along the coast. A search among
them will determine that
The father of the boy had for more
than year run a farm part Of the time
on. Little Green Island MIR. Stone was in
some respects quaint character. For a
JilnJ nc ltNSu III SHdhly AZ oOulu HOft-
land, and devoted himself to what is To-
cally known as small boat fishing" He
then owned a large number of dogs; he is
said to have at one time seventeen. They
were savage brutcs, fed on raw meat and
fish, and dangerous to strangers, or at
least were so regarded.
When Stone bought the farm on the is
land he removed his dogs there, making
decided addition TO the original num-
Der He lived while on the island in q
small house and fed the numerous great
dos there after a fashion of his own
When the boy went down the harbor to
the island, it was after he was assured
that his father was better. He took the
fishing boat his father had used, and
went down with the idea of shutting up
the house on the island. He was never
here before with the dogs, and they did
know him, it is said