Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-04-12

Zee. Here there lived n rich and
powerful woman, whose pride. cruel
~ and seliishness aroused the anger
OF heaven, and caused the wicked
+ and misguided city to sink beneath
the waves. a small portion of the
city twhcre the good people livel)
WAS saved. and It's name sun cleays .
10 the small town OF Stavoren. which
Is Wei known TO every travelled GO
ing by water from Amsterdam to
L,cuwardcn and Groningen.
a Thirteenth Century Calamity.
1t is an indusputable fact that in
the thirteenth century. Stayoren was
Il wealthy ana powerful commercial
city; however. due partly TO the port
becoming checked with sand and
partly to the eruption of the Zuydtr
Zee in 1877, It. rapidly lost its i'm
porance. and at the present time what
liz left of II only affords shelter TO
about eight hundred souls. The
roofs and spires of the now submn
rine buildings can. it Is said be o.
ten seen lar down In the depths wh"n
the sea is still aud the weather clcar.
while silent listeners on Christmas
eve Will hear the distant and murticI
k)ne OF church bells nrisin. from
the depths. only to break in bubbles
and r'pples on the surface OF the Guy
der Zee.
Visitors to Sylt. the we'll ksowi.
seaside resort and island in the
her Inc small village of Winnings
ltsit. Although It's present popu-
latlon is only fifty persons, it is none
the less commemorative of the larg;
commercial town of Winningstdct.
which went to the bottom OF the scn
during great flood and storm wni,n
took place on January 10. 1862.
The German Oceans Great Record.
Winningsredt Is by no means ;hc
only town which once STOOD on the
shores of Friesland ard Holland, om;y
to meet with destruction at the heads
Tor rather billows) OF Old Hans. nv
the Tristan Familiarity terms the
North Sea- AS matter OF fact. OF
all the seas In the world 1t Is tho
German Ocean alone which can cstab-
fish record for the number o: towns.
villages and hamlc,s which II has ci-
Their destroyed or engulicd
Since the eleventh century Old
Hans has devastated no less than
swallowing them up entirely or els,
by burylng them under heaps of sand.
Tho fate of the Dutch town of Rung-
holt, which disappeared during n
great storm in the year 1897, is still
sung and told in story by the pres
cnt-day fisherfolk Of Holland
The Baltic Sea has not such had
record In catastrophes as Old Hans.
Yet solo OF romance is thrown
around the legends told about this
sea by the story OF the wonderfu'
town OF Vineta, chimes from whose
church stecplcs may. at the fall o.
cventide, be heard pealing family
from the depths OF tn ocean.
The Legend OF Vineta.
IN the '70's OF the last century ar
ticles were still published In support
of the somem- time existence of a
large, fhbuiousiy wealthy W.ndish
city named Vineta, which in the Mid
die Ages nestled at the foot of the
stakclberg. at usedom. nearly at the
same altitude at which the hamlet
of Damerow now stands. The le-
gcnd states 1t was totally destroyed
by food and earthquake which oc-
CURED in the year 1888. At one
time the city OF Vineta was marked
on the Prussian maps, but geologi-
cni ami lictnr;col tnyo-tiootto,. ,,,odo
locally by Prof. Virchow and others
hbve proved beyond doubt that a
town never could have stood III on
the site indicated.
Researches into the origin OF tho
legend led to the remarkable dis
covery that the name Of Vineta waa
nothing more than corruption OF
Jumneta and Jumne-the old Wen
dish name of the modern town ~
Violin. or Julin. ms 1t was called by
the Danes. The reported fabulouf
wealth owned by Vineta was TO 4
certain extent true. as Julin or Juin--
he was. according to old historian
Adam. of Bremen. very large ald
Remarkably wealthy town in the
trade with Aarhia. Asia. ana the coast
| towns of Northern Africa.
A Mere Fabrication.
TO use the historians own words.
this old Wendish town vas certainly
The greatest of all towns now ex-
listing In Europe" When the Dan
ish King Waldcmar the Great. crush :
ed out the power welded by the
Werds he also destroyed Jumne by
burning 1t to the ground. in lli2;
food business is mere fabrication.