The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-11-23
THEIR SEARCH REWARDED.
Workers on the Sunken Twilight
Reach Cases OF GIN.

Workers on the Sunken Twilight
Reach Cases OF GIN.
About 3 O'Clock last Sunday night
three wreckers were at work in the
hold Of the old river boat Twilight"
which Is buried in thirty feet Of sand
on the north bank of the Missouri river
across from Napoleon They had
been busy iu the new steel fsson ie-
moving cord wood with viii /, the pas
sages were filed. All the water soaked
wood had been taken out and clear
passage was before them in the wet
sand. Without warning the sand on
one side caved in aud before them was
. wall OF bright wooden cases and bar
rels and kegs. The men we're wild
with delight. Down in the hold Of =
buried ship, with thirty feet OF wet
sand above them, they filed their
lungs with air pumped from above and
yelled and danced and shook hands
with one another. For many months
they had been digging and toiling for
this very thing and by the side OF a
wall Of sand the treasure lay revealed.
With feverish haste, with pick and
shovel, they tore At the boxes, getting
them loose. They had hoe" piled SOL
idly is,iers from deck TO roof and they
stuck tight, says the Star.
The first case taken out was broken
and from it trickled white liquor that
had piney odor. Eight bottles had
been broken by the picks in the mems
hands. The case was stamped s.Old
London Club Gin. 1860" With four
bottles they climbed ont Of the caissor
and rushed mp to the tent Of Captain
Leopold, and sticking their head
through the nap, shouted, "We'v'
found Il, Cap! We've found It." Tn,
captain. aroused from his sleep. go
into his clothes and together they wen
back into the caisson and cpent tn
night examining their find.
Captain George r. Collins, who 4
manager for the wrecking company
was 1t the wreck Sunday, but left at .
O'Clock that afternoon. Yesterday ,
man came up from Napoleon with fou
Of the bottles In q box. The lables o
the bottles had been eaten OF by th
water. The bottles are square faced
Of DARK green glass and hold an homes
qnart. They are sealed with blac
wax, which has not been disturbed b
time or water. The sawdust in whic
the bottles are packed was wet an
mud oolored.
One Of the bottles was opened IN
the liquor strained. It contained som
sediment and particles Of cork, whic
had partly disiotergrated through tim
and the juniper fumes. A number Z
good judges Of liquor we're invited
sample the gin. II was old fashione<
without acid or sugar, and had sliei
TASTE - Of pine or turpentine. A 10
moments after Il was swallowed
began to mako its influence felt, and
glow stole through the drinkers, froI
their toes to the tips Of their care, IN
they told voluminously OF the GOO
quality lof the gin. A man who ":
old enough to have drunk old IIoDdc
gan as far back a. 1860 Was given
drink, and said Il had been unimpairs
by as long ssclusion under sand ~
water. 1t was the old London ''squal
face" that Dickens wrote about au
smacked his lips over.
| There are . great many cases Of g
in sight. Some Of il is partly covers
with sand and mud. This will he TAKE
out at once, as Il belongs TO the wrec
srs absolutely. The barrels OF whisl
will not be taken ont for two weeks
more, - the wrecking company desir
that the government shall see 1t al
become satisfied that II Ia tax ire
The taxes were paid at the distilleri
when the whiskey was made, ov
thirty years ago.
There Is a rumor that abaft OF whe
> the caisson ID now sunk Is the purse
. cabin and that In II Is safe containil
ia large sum Of money being carri
' from st. Louis to up river merchar
I. and army posts. The officers OF
: wrecking crew laugh at the idea 81
/, say they do not believe Il, but one
D them remarked: ave would not s
, anything about it IL we did find 81
full Of money. 1t would be ours .
{ our business is our own." The mon
D question, however. Is forgotten in I
!. joy of the wreckers at the finding
. the whiskey, as it gives hope Of grs
o reward for their persevering labor
the face Of great difficulties.
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