The Holbrook news., 1910-09-16
BATTLE WITH SHARK
FISHERMEN HAVE DESPERATE
 FIGHT WITH MAN-EATER.
Find Human Bones and Part of a Ko- dak in Stomach of Huge Fish After They Succeed in Get
 ting 1t Ashore.

Seattle.-After a terrible struggle lasting seven hours. gigantic shark, SC feet long and estimated to weigh more than fifteen tons. was captured by the combined crews of the fishing boats Goodpartner and Pioneer II. be- tween Port Angeles and Port Crescent recently.
 The monster is believed to be the largest fish ever caught in these wa ters.
 The Goodpartner and the Pioneer IT., much battered and battlestrained, with half of the crews nursing more or less serious wounds, lowed the mammoth carcass into Elliott bay. In spite of the 30-horsepower engine with which each is equipped it took the two boats IS hours to get the big carcass down from Port Townsend.
 When pulled to the surface the tail was seen to be full of splinters and blue paint as the result of the strug- gle to demolish the Goodpartner The shark is IS feet in circumference at its middle and about twelve feet around the head.
 
 under side is five feet across. The fiukes of the powerful tail are six feet apart. The body is gray and covered with tiny spikes which make 1t feel like a file.
 One result of the sharks capture Is that the crew of the Goodpartner will never do any more Sunday fishing. Captain Dragich and five men were hard at work early on Sunday morn ing pulling up their big salmon net.
 They had not pulled very much of it into the boat when the leviathan made it's presence known by thump- ing the bottom of the Goodpartner with it's tail. A minute later 1t ap- peared alongside and hit the Good partner amidships.
 Luckily the shark had entangled its front fins and its head in the stout meshes of the net. Before it could tear itself free three thicknesses of the net were wound around it.
 Then the struggle began. The six men on the Goodpartner worked des- perately to keep the head of the big fish near the boat and the death-deal- ing tail away Again and again 1t would rear its big hulk out of the water and smash in the sides of the cabin.
 Olaf Larsen. the youngest mem- Der of the crew, had his arm broken. Captain Dragich was cut in the head and chest by flying glass. --
 The Pioneer II. came to the assist 4F aeh the Goodpartner after about an hour of the conflict. They lowed the fish and the boat to. a sandy beach.
 Tackle was fastened to a tree on the shore and the Pioneers winch managed to pull the fighting fish into the shoal water. As the tide ebbed the shark was left high and dry and its struggles diminished.
 At 100 D. m. Capt. George Saeher of the Pioneer II. got close enough to the fish to chop hole in its throat with an ax. A couple of barrels of blood flowed out and the long struggle was over.
 Besides the personal injuries suf- fered by the various members of the crew, a big net valued at S1.000 was destroyed.
 When first examined the fish was believed to be a whale or basking shark, but when the belly was cut into after 15 minutes work with an ax. bones were found which indicat~ that it is a man eater. The bono from their size and weight arc h. lieved to be human, although t>S SSfs-s est fragment is only four inches long making it difficult to decide.
 Another unusual find in the stom- ach, which might be taken as an in- dication that the bones are really hu- man, is a piece of aluminium, now in the possession of Captain Dragich. None of the fishermen could explain of what the thin curved plate of alu- minum had originally been a part. AS soon as they came ashore. however. it was identified as part of folding kodak.
 The leather which covered the alu- minum frame and the wooden parts of the kodak had been eaten away by the powerful juices in the sharks stomach. When the deposit of grease was scraped from the plate the words ''No. 3 Folding Pocket Kodak. Model A, Patented" were plain.
 It is believed that perhaps the own CT of the kodak can be traced through the maker of the camera, as there are other factory marks on 1t which may allow of it's being identified.