The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-03-08
sTRUoK SEA MONSTER.
J sOreature Scared Sailors Almost 10
Death and Followed Ship for Al
most an Hour.

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f8Wild-eyed, their nerves completely
shattered, and their, boat almost a
1llseomplete wreck, the crew Of the Gold
lie Budd, a local fishing and pleasure
! sloop, arrived here tonight with de
tai OF an encounter with monster
or the deep so enormous in it's size
and SO strange in it's actions that not
q monther's son Of them will express
5 an opinion as to what it actually was.
a That Capt. Hyland H. Parker, of the
i Budd, and the crew passed through
4 4 some terrible experiences there is, no
~ gainsaying, as their physical condi-
Sfilon, as we'll as their boat, testifies.
NM When six miles off Ocean City, re-
AHturping from the fishing banks about
2 O'Clock this afternoon, the Goldie
Budd ran afoul Of a marine creature,
4 fully 100 feet long, with head which
the sailors declared resembled nothing
SO much rs that Of giant rhinocer-
| GUS. The sloop crashed into the side
) OF the whale, sea serpent,
or whatever it was-with resultant
a shock that broke the shaft Of the
boats auxiliary engine, unhinged the
rudder and opened her seams so that
only by @bailing were the crew able to
make the nearest harbor, dit Great
n Egg Inlet.
y Rudder Broke in Crash.
Said Capt. Parker tonight, relating
his experience:
"We were sailing along before
stiff east wind, when suddenly, as the
boat sank into the trough of wave,
she struck something, then slid off in
to deep water again. The shock
threw me from the wheel and brought
} the frightened men from the cabin
pell nell. The wheel was gone, our
rudder broken, and the propeller twis-
ted.
! "We were taking account Of these
injuries when one of my men cried
out, My God, what is thatq' and poin-
ted over the stern. What I first saw
looked like the head of giant rhin-
>lcerous, only its mouth must have
been ten feet across. The top of the
head was covered with hig bumps, and
from each of these it would occasion
ally spout what looked like water and
blood. [ never saw nor heard of any
=, thing like it before nor never want to
again. l never took much stock in
. sea serpents, but this creature was
not whale. It's body was black and
must have been fully one hundred
feet long, tapering toward the tail
Men in Panic Of Fright.
"Thc thing following lis for nearly
an hour. My men nearly died of
fright as they bailed and helped re-
set tht ruddcr. We must have wound
ed the fish pretty badly when wc
struck it, for the water in its wake
was bloody. Every once in a while
it seemed to have a sort Of spasm,
lashing the water furiously and
spouting. We we're about two miles
from shore when the creature sank,
,sand we did not see it again.
>&:lisH l we been following the sea for
nearly fifteen years, and it has been
the most eventful day on the water.
Going out this morning we discovered
the wreck of four-mastcd vessel it's
sails still set, about twelve miles
southeast Of Ocean City. Boats from
the inlet have been traversing this
part Of the coast every day during
the week, and this wreck was never
reported before.
Found new Wreck.
cit was not the barge Bala, which