The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-23
THE SRA GIVES Up TWO THRILLING NEWS STORIES
WRECK OF SHIP IN WHICH EARL
SOUGHT BURIED COCoS TREASURE r !.
Noble Patron Of Gold Hunters and His WiIe
Narrowly Escape With The Crew OF
the Attiquir---Golden Goddess
With Mantle Of Gems
Still UnPeSeuad,

New Orleans, lathe Anselm,,
| just arrived in port, brought the crew
of the steamer Attiquin, a private
vessel belonging to the Earl FitzWilI-.
iam.\
/ The Attiquin was large vessel,
built after the style Of an auxiliary
cruiser. She cleared from Bristol,
England, stopped at Tampa and Be-
lie, British Honduras, which point
she left for voyage around Cape
Horn. her destination being Cocos
Island, off the west coast of Central
America, where it was the intention
of the Earl, her owner, to search for
treasure.
The vessel was beached and
| wrecked off the coast of Honduras
and is a complete loss. /
The owner and crew escaped mar
,, rowly with their lives. The Earl and
Countess Fitzwilliam went to Belize,
where they were cared for by the
British colonial authorities, while the
crew were sent to New Orleans. They
will be forwarded from here to New
York.
This is the second expedition sent
out by Earl Fitzwilliam within the.
past three years to uncover the tabled;
treasure on Cocos Island that has
come to grief In the latter part OF
1904 the steamer Veronique, which
was chartered for the, purpose by.
Earl Fitzwilliam, carried the Earl
Admiral Palliser, retired, Of the Brit
ish navy; Colonel Carter, of the Rrit-
ism army, and several other friends
of Earl Fitzwilliam to the famous
treasure island off the Pacific coast
of Costa Rica. 8
The Earl stopped at Jamaica and
took on two expert miners and six,
teen negro laborers, with mass Of.
equipment and supplies. The steam
er finally got to Cocos after a rough
trip around the Horn. When the
party got to the island an old German,
who was about the only resident OF
the place, told the Englishmen that Il
they looked in the right place they:
could find 100000 pounds OF treas
ure and golden statue OF a goddess;
robed in a costume of royal gems
The German said that he guessed the
statue was buried under a clir that
overlooked the sea. fSfss.
The miners prepared to blow up
the cliff and get at the statue in that
way, but a premature blast blew the
top of the cliff down on top of them.
Those who escaped went to work to
| dig out their comrades, assisted by.
| the Earl. There was landslide,
| which buried the Earl and his men
! in the sand, and gave him fractured
skull. A dozen of the men we're sent
| to the American Hospital at Ancon,
! Panama As soon as the Earl was
able to travel he and his friends went
back home.
Earl Fitzwilliam was born in Can-
ada and was the oldest son Of Vis-
count Milton, M. P, and Laura,
daughter of Lord Charles Beauclerk.
He married a daughter of the Mar
quis of ZetIand. He succeeded his
grandfather, the sixth Earl Fitzwill-
lam, in 1902. He carried dispatches
for the army headquarters staff dur
! ing the Boer war, for which he re-
! ceived the Order of Distinguished
! Merit. He is Master of the Went
worth Hounds and the Wicklow Har-
riers. He has vast estates in York.
shire and in County Wicklow, Ire
land. which are said to aggregate
115, 900 acres, from which he derives
an income OF more than 100000 a
year. He is one OF the wealthIest
peers Of the empire.
| The Cocos treasure is supposed to
i have got there in 1920, when there
! was a big revolt in Peru and the
wealthy citizens at Callao took their
! raluables out and buried them on the
j island. While they were going back
! to Peru a sloop of war sunk all on
! board but two men. The story runs
that these two, men finally got back
10 the island and picked up $500
worth OF treasure, but on the way
back one of them was eaten by
! sharks. The other fitted up ship
al Panama for treasure hunting pur-
poses, but was arrested and narrowly
! escaped being executed. Then he
! died a natural death.