Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-04-20

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extracted one more wild screech from
me siren at the head or the funnel and
anu bore hand 10 help him get light
~ was second or two before we
could make a flare, what with damn.
ness and excitement. and. meanuhiIe
'hefe was ar ocular row going on over
.ne SIDE the Thing kept running into
- ana shaking the old hooker from
stem TO stem.
we got our fare going at last and
tneh looked over the side. expecting 10
see anything. And we saw Il. too. Al
hfSl our eyes were too dazzled 10 make
OUT single object for we had been
Al least, ! had-fOr nigh on twelve
hours In absolute darkness. The 9th
ers must have got their sight first. and
heard them swearing ana muttering
" lhelr boards like men possessed.
ana by and bye Joined In
within the range Of the fare.lignt
lhere wasn't a single ship TO be seen.
thongh there We're sounds Of paddles
ana painting engines ana fog horns nh
around. ] guessed we were ia the
lahI - spooks, and can tell you. my
te"ih chauered and my knees were
knocking with a noise Ike mill hop
per Then for the rst time became
aware ~ IN oyerpow ering stencil. The
others told me afterwards That they
had nosed Il for hours back, and why
dldn md II out sooner don't know.
unless l. was that All my other senses
weWre 50 actiye that they didn't give
my smelling faculties chance.
You've snelt sesweed and ozone
baths. and rotten eggs. and fish nian-
ure ! suppose. 80 have !. Well. they
seemed 10 be here In IONS and cargo
loads with d few mountains Of them
thrown In. and began 10 feel very
sick
But the sickness was lark cor par
ed with the funk ! was IN. looking
over Tive side and seeing nothing.
while all the time there were Things
moving aboni working paddles and
blowing on steam BY and bye. how
ever, my eyesight same beck. and
cluiched hold ~ the rails like a mad
lnan. The dare III up pretty wide
circle ~ waier. and as far as one could
see i was like a great swamp covered
over with floating sea-weed. which &C,
counted In part FOR the oyerpowering
stencil, Mixed up In The raffie were
trunks ~ trees and what-aii in the
WAY ~ debris and rubbish. aud In he.
tween the patches OF this stuff was a
dark. unwholesome looking sea. stag
nAnt and sinking with scum and froth
and spawn on top OF t. II did not
need much wisdom 10 know where
! waS ! had never been there before.
and never want 10 20 again.
Bni the spooks what were they
Whales. ! suppose. You can call them
that. II you like I'm not well enough
~ % tell you their scientific names
N whales are ike double SIZED ailiRa-
tors. or turtles with snake running
through them fore and aft and with
four great fapp"rs that chnrn IN the
water like paddle wheels perhaps they
We're whalss IN always understood
that these beasts died ages ago and
! tell you, II gave ne a nasty Jar to
see them swimming about IN thai dead
water and every now and again Civ
Ing out a booming roar for all the
world like a for horn Size3 Well,
don't know The alligator things might
Ne Anything from thirty To sixty feet
long az more. aud the others about
halg the size There were dozens ni
them. ard every now and again they
would scrapp their horny sides or their
lins alongside nur iron plates. 90
gpurwr we weren't actually afraid o.
them. because they couldn't reach ms:
hHr can toll YOU we We're deyjlish
disturbed for all that II was Ike iak.
Ing peep into back ages q iind Our
selves III thar dead sea. orprgrOwn
with rank vegetation. and 70 see those
survival sol antpdiluvian times knock
ns ahoni I've seen skeletons and
masrup curpSrS ~ Tho beasts Ia mus
GUMS. At least NJ most ~ them. also IN
books. lint never expected 80 come
across them IN the fcsh
Well. The narc died out, and We All
STAYED on ihr bridge until day-hreak.
listening 10 the Things moving about.
ana may tell You that z night Ike
that needn't happen more than once
10 any man.
A last day broke fine, aud with
,hc water as smooth rs . door. though
right breeze was playing shout M
aInft. II was queer sighi cast eyes
on As FAR MS the horizon, and God
knows how much further, nothing hut
tint blessed tanglc of sea weed. IN
some places thick and piled MP. and
elsewhere with patches of ditch.water
showing. The old Sarah Jane was in
a prctty tight TX. with her propeller
TANNED III IN the midst af this infer
nal stun II was no rise 20 think OF
clearing The screw, FOR no mariner on
earth could navigate her out OF the
moss she was IN A cyclone had
brought her there. and not even a eye
lnno could get her ont again What
did ~ VOL. piped all hands and
mil II 10 them. There was nothing for
/, hut 10 tbgndon the old gas.tauk and
try TO get through with the boats.
must ten you that with daylight the
Tbiprs had gone under so that the
mon weren't So scared Of trusting 70
Inc boats. aud YOU may be sure J did
no, suggest that we might nave to
speud several nights In them briore
No got free. was sicker OF the idea
~ STAYING there than Of getting away.
monsters or no ntrsters
In the course Of the forenoon, then
,Vc go, couple OF bears over the Slde.
nrnyisionctl and ali the rest, ] won't
spIn the y any longer or ! might
enlarge on pnl experience during the
siy nights before we found the open
sra with moving Things all about
ms. and threatening to- swamp us amy
minute. Three OF the nights we spent