The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-09-21
SLAIN BIZ THE KILLERS
Terrible Fate of Two SealerS
Off the Japan Coast.
SEATTLE MEN BARELY ESCAPE.
The Agar Returns With Thrilling Ac-
count OF How Rattler's Men Per-
ished-A Fair Catch.

The sealing schooner Allie l. Agar, cant
r.. Z. Jones', the first OF the Puget sound
feet % arrive. came into port yesterday
morning. bringing confirmation OF the re-
ports Of the loss OF Mate Nelson, or the
san Francisco seaIer Rather. who was
brother Of the captain and sailor. Ihe
two disappeared in a hunters boat, ana
were probably devoured by killers. This
happened in May. on the Japan coast, and
the captain searched for days for his IN
fortunate brother, ard gave the alarm 10
every passing schooner, but finally gave
up hope.
These killers are as large as whales. and
they destroy those animals by the score,
tearing them into pieces and devourlng
them. bones and all. TIE only variety OF
the killer which has been known % attack
a boat is found on the Japan coast. They
viii locate a boat and come UP beneath L.
drag il into the depths and not leave a
splinter 70 mark the spot As the missing
men we're in the immediate locality where
these monsters abound. no doubt is IN
tertained that they met this terrible fate.
The Algar's Boats in Danger.
Not many miles from the supposed spot.
and shortly after that time, the fleet OF
hunters boats from the Agar, with hunt.
ers and crews aboard. had terrible fright'
from these sea monsters. The horrlhed
crew beheld a large school of fully thirty
OF IneT1. WIFI great ms eFttks VIII llhA@
above the surface. throwing water fifty
feet into the air. Instinctively the men be-
gan rowing with all their strength 10 try
10 make the schooner. but though few or
the killers came nearer no ntshap &C.
CURED. one boat. Of probably another
schooner. was on the opposite side OF the
school bat after all the animals had djsap-
peared the little craft was seen TO be safe
and quietly on her way. The Rather Is on
her way from Unalaska, and viii reach
San Francisco October I.
The Agar reached Rering sea by August
/. in time TO begin with the season, but
loco ~ her ! go skins had been secured on
the japan coast where guns are used.
The men did not complain so much Of
scarcity Of seals as of the poor chance of
killing them with spears. no guns being
allowed IN Boring sea. The weather was
not favorable. by any means. For twenty
two days during one single storm the yes
sci hove to. and as one sailor remarked.
he did not dare open his mouth for fear OF
swallowing sea water, which. by the ma
ture OF things. should be below instead OF
above the sturdy craft.
The Loss OF the Brenda.
At Unalaska Capt Locke. of the schoon-
or Brenda. which was wrecked July | at
Shumshu island, Siberia. came aboard the
Agar, and William Dewitt. one of his fin
est hunters. engaged for the remainder of
the Agar s cruise. lie came In Yesterday,
and was greeted by his old friends not
having been in Seattle before in eight
years. He went TO Victoria last evening
on the Rosalie, and will he an important
witness in the investigation of the loss of
the Brenda. His story is the same as that
of Capt. Locke. whose statement appeared
in this paper upon the last arrival of the
Excelsior. on Shumshu island Dewitt kill
ed A very large bear. He first shot it in
the hip, and il charged on him. When the
animal was coming toward him he fired
again. striking it in the forequarters. and
the ferocous animal fell over, dead. 1t
weighed 200 to 500 pounds.
sailors TisIike Seal Hunters.
The Agar left here shortly after Janu-
arv |, and some of the crew say that they
viii never go on another sealer. They say
that hunters, as soon as they get on salt
water. regard themselves as superiors.
and think every one else should wait upon
them. One seaman remarked yesterday
that the skill of seal hunters is only a
myth and any one who could shoot as
well as the average man with a shotgun
could kill seals as soon as he becomes aC-
customed to the motion of the boat. In
sixty-three trips in hunters boats. one Of
the uninitiated has formed the opinion that
If a seal is missed, which often happens
al less than twenty feet distance, the hunt
er Invariably blames the boatman.
J. c. Nixon, owner of the Agar paid off
the crew yesterday, and all of the latter
say they are glad to get back.
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