The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-11-18
WHEyDoWNE SIREN
All the Coast Was Ratified by the Noise
that Came from All Directions.

FFOut INC no AuAiN W.
The great ocean tug Springhill Of Psrrsboro.
y. =. Is now in the harbor on her wsy home
from Boston. after taking thither a barge q
along the coast by many a person whom Il has
terrified, and, many another whom II has both
Ing on the coast 10 carry one Of those unearthly
siren whistles, that combine the walls OF a lo-t
soul with shrieks OF mortal agony and hercs
whOops and yells. as Of victorious savages.
When the tug was finished and the imported
whistle was first tried in Parrsporo' there was
else, saws Capt. Cook. As the strange, uneSrthly
noise went hurtling among the hill; and valleys
then like a chorus Of ghosts, and then like q
death-stricken animal, a man who was digging
clans near by dropped his clam hoe ana niEIs
tracks for the shore deep ones, too. gathering
the mud In all directions, He tumble ana Tell
hurry 10 get up, and scrambled out OF sight in
the bushes on his hands and knees.
foot In the air as the awful noise struck the hill
behind him. lie cast around one look OF terror.
and then made a bee line for home, ~
An old woman Afterward told Capt, Cook thAs
dulging IN the widest lind 81 a Mt;
one fOggy night the lighthouse keeper at Lit
tie River. near Cutler, was sitting outdoors on
the bare rock, which is full Of great CreyiCes and
g%ullies. IAN ter once" AS he described It after
ward, a yell come out er that crack there, then
a yell come out sr that crack there, an an
other come outer that crack There, and another
went yellin' up the stream / cutler
Mas lac scared Was the Clitf all AT once pos
sessed OF deyilsl lie argued 20 himself after las
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calling 10 their young but he couldn't lo"I NM
self that way.
The next day ne went 10 Cutler. Had they
heard that awful yellin' In the night Ne-. they
had. IL had awakened half the town, one old
man, who lived alone with his daughter, got up
brayely when he heard the nuls', loaded hls old
musket, and went out into the night acCOmpa-
MED by his daughter, who was too frightened TO
remain alone la the house.
They neither saw nor heard anything. Finally
the old man said " IL come from the sea, any
how; Il can't git at US noho~.' so they went
back to bed.
Al East Machias the people thought a bear
was attacking the cattle, aud four men armed
with guns searched long aud carefully, but 10
bTuin or sign OF bTUin could De found.
Al another place q man aud his son were
hunting together. They were some distance
apart when the noise came. The father thought
some Wild creature was attacking his son, and
rushed 10 the rescue only Ia md the latter as
prepared rs he was.
'Oar day this summer a Portland man was Sit
tlng In a CommsrCial street oficc when tbs
Spriughili came up the harhoT and sdluied.
lie Jumped into tho air, brought hs hst down
hard on The ta3ie, and - laIned' There's that
ID thing. w hat - II
several weeks b. fuTc.N bile on treat Diamond
Island. one fu@gy day, the aEuulGlng yrlls OF
that siren Whistl. were catered all over. the
Island by is revolving throat. IL turned the
IUuple right out ~ the cottages in general
thing had happened % the COWS that room
through the NusEls ~ the ISLAND. Egt some
thought the distressed bcllIw iug came from one
quarter and some from another.
Apparently our friend Above mentioned had
hseu wondering ever -llc" VIA made ilst noise.
The siren whistle j. tcgritt 'uE, not only BE-
Ca.-r at tia ,uUud itself but lrstu-r 10 g. aLrlJd
a. Tie cars from 80 man quarters because Il re-
Eo!,es. ltdues not lat long; already LLAt "a
ths sPEinghM = nearly NVfn ~