Arizona silver belt., 1895-02-16
FROZEN FlsH IN THg ARCTIC,
A Vast shoal of Them Encountered Re
 gently In BehTing Sea.

A Vast Shoal of Them Encountered Re
 gently In BehTinE Sea.
 Some recently returned salmon fish CTS, whalers and Sealers from the Arc tic tell of strange thing-an occur. renee without parallel in the eNperi. ence of those who sailed to the faf north, says the San Francisco Chron- icle.
 A sen captain who was passenger on the salmon schooner Glenn tells the story with much circumstance The Glenn left the city in March last, bound for Behring sea, which was reached May f. In the latter month there is usually little drift ice, but seldom enough to interfere materially with the progress of the many whalers, seaiers and other craft which make for the sea at that time of the year, This season, however, the sea was literally covered with drift ice, extending from the Alaskan peninsula clear across nOrthward to the Yukon The south west winds usually blow off shore, and driving the ice further from the land leave a passage between ice and land. The Glenn intended Co make Bristol bay and stood Co the eastward but wus unable to reach it on account of the ice, and so had to put back toward the peninsula to await the delayed south east winds
 It was while the Glenn and four others passed mp toward Bristol bay that the phenomenon was encountered. The vessel had just emerged from OunimalS pass, about half way between Amoukhta island and Bristol bay, when a vast quantity of dead fish were encountered. They were in the water as far as the eye could sec on each side of the vessel and for sixty miles the Glenn travelled through the shoals of fish.
 On examination they proved to be silver hake, kind of codfsh, but mar rover ana smaller, and having only two dorsal and one anal fin. They weighed between four and five pounds. and were perfectly fresh, the gills be- ing still red, Some of the sailors were afraid Co eat them, thinking they had perhaps been killed by some subterra- mean upheaval or, possibly, through the overflow from the volcano of Wenyalmnor, which was active last fall, Other sailors, less fastidious, did not hesitate to cut the flesh open, and then peculiar condition was revealed. Although the fish were fresh and had not stifrcned, the gills and intestines were found to be full of ice. This was not the case in one instance, but with every fish which was opened. and apparently accounted for their sudden subterranean upheaval.
 The anomalous condition of the flesh was the subject of much talk and spec uTation. That the fish should be com Paratively Timber and that there should be ice within them seemed to indicate that shoal of them had been sudden ly ovcrtaken and frozen to death, and on the thawing ont of the ice the car casses had been released, but had not risen in temperature sufficiently to thaw out the ice in thoir bodies Those of the sailors who cooked the fish said that they tasted as good as ever, and 'hat they were not tainted by sulphur. as they might have besh m their death being due to a sudden subterranean upheaval.
 The area of the frozen fish was not less than half mile wide and sixty miles long. When the Glenn on it's homeward-bound journey reached ounimak pass again, August 29 every sign of the fish had disappeared Many had doubtless been eattn by the gulls and other birds, and others lad sunk in the warm water