The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-19

ofssA ssrpenis 90 feet IN Length Thrss
Stones at the MoustsFs Hut Failed 20
Wound Thtm,
GREENPoRT, /. 1, Nov, 1S,-In the
mouths OK two witnesses a truth Ia es-
tabllshed, Therefore there were two
sea serpents, each fifty feol long, and
certain citizens cast stone at them as
they whirlsd through the frothed wa
ters of the Sound. The Oldest inhabit-
ant does not recall 80 marvellous a sea-
con In sea serpents, The summer
boarder is departed and the bather is
n memory, yet do these scaly monsters
OF the deep appear 10 alright the gentle
villagers.
Two Of the best citizens saw these
creatures, all the esteem of their towns
men rests upon the brows OF these VIII
nesses. Two men, two serpents, ono
man to a serpent, and there you are.
Doubt and sceptieism flee away. These
serpents were so big 1t took two men TO
see their whole length.
c. Edward Slauson and George II,
Corwin are the men. The identity OF
these serpents 10 unknown. G. Edward
Slauson is a clerk In the drug store OF
George II. Corwln. They went fishing
this morning, Down on the shore Of
the Sound they took their stand and
cast their lines through the gray fog to
lure the dusky blackfish. The wave
rolled and the lines swished hour after.
hour, but the blackfish could no be
tempted, Corwin was cold and disgust
ed and c.. Edward Slauson's teeth chat
tered,
zone more cast and I'm going home"
said Corwin, He Topped up his line and
suddenly stopped.
'Linsced and p%aragoric!' he gasped,
"what's that?"
c. Edward Slauson looked where Cor
win pointed, and there wal a gasping
duet.
"You mean what's them,'" he said,
In a minute, There's two OF EN-"
AS Corwln tells II, they saw, some six
HUNDRED 6r seven hundred feet to the
eastward, two weird objects that tore
through the water In a westerly dlrec-
tIon. SlHuson saw two heads. each four
feet In circumference, and turned the
Job over to Corwin. who attended to see
Ing the bodies. He had the big end of
the job, really. There was fifty feet of
body behind each head, and they wrig-
gled so 1t was hard TO see all at once
In no spot, says Corwln, were these SER
penis less than three feet in clrcumfer-
ence.
The monsters derived their motion,
which was swift but wabbly, by twist
ing their bodies into coils or half loops,
and they pounded through the water
with toamiug waves on either side.
They travelled about one hundred feet
apart, Corwin declares, which was little
enough room, goodness knows.
III a line could have been made fast
TO either monster II would have taken
fifty men to land It," he said. This Is
a conservative estimate, beyond doubt,
as It allows m man 10 each foot OF
monster, 1t would be a daring man, in
deed, who would undertake to haul ond
foot of a fifty foot sea serpent whose
interests lay seward.
As the creature tore past Slauson
thought OF a plan TO capture them, He
took stones from the beach and cast
them at the serpents, but 1t was no easy
matter to stun a fifty foot sea serpent
at GOO feet with a small stone, and he
soon deslsted. The scaly monsters had
business. toward the west and never
paused In their hurried progress thither.
Corwin and Slauson looked and looked
until the spiashing coils disappeared In
The distance and only the swell remain
ed, and then came home and told the
story to the villagers,