The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-21
.HARP0ON. |NWHALE
SOLVES TRAGEDY.
Initials Of Lost Ship on Weapon
Found in Nam
NAL.

| Philadelphia. August 2o.-A sever
years mystery may be solved through
a mishnp to tho steamship Pallanza,
which struck a sleeping whale at sea
while running at full speed. nearly
cutting the mammal in two and dis
closing a partly Embedded harpoon be-
1 lieved to have been used by the whaler
James T. Duncan. which was lost in
! 1903.
According to Captain Fendt's state.
ment. when the Pallanza arrived from
Hamburg. tho huge freighter was
travelling at her best speed at s:as A.
M. on August IL. when in the gather
Ing dusk what seemed to BIO a large.
shiny "roller" doomed up ahead. Tho
lookout had only time to distinguish 1t
and cry "Whn1e-ho!" when the Pallanza
flesh and bone, partly cutting 1t in
Tho whale awoke to the pangs OF
a mortal blow and with head and tall
dashed furiously at the vessels bow.
upon which It was securely impaled
For more than a quarter Of an hour
tho Pallanza lay at rest, vibrating
with tho mammals dying struggles,
while all on board gathered at the
forepeak to watch the unusual spec
tacle over the rail.
AT length the whales pain began to
diminish. until, half hour after It
had been struck. the doomed animal
would lie motionless for five minutes
on end. now and again making des-.
tibly more feeble than the one before
Finally all struggles ceased and with,
them all remaining life.
Carcass Prfed Loose.
Nine OF the crew were let down over
the bow to pryS loose the huge carcass.
This was the work OF more than two.
hours. as 1t was necessary to hack
inert mass could be wcdged free. III,
schopping ut tho animal one Of the tarss
struck What he thought. to be a spar.
Mhfh gpoysa 20 e non e os te
weapon Was an iron band. stampe g,
with tho initials u, 6 D., ! 902. z
was this that. led Captain Fendt to
connect the incident wit the ill-1ate =
IAN inquiry has failedb to reya5 10
ing Initials" he said. "and as ZOE the
e eapf '9st The p Sn1ss
pooh made the year before ne sniiea
from Halifax With "a crew ! 81 y seven zen
men, never to /, e. heard OF az III. ~,
the Duncan drove this weapon Int. Int
the whale and was sunk in the strug-
gle which followed by blow = q y
tho Infatuated beasts tail. you'd stnink
so, too, II you had seen that Wn Ela.I1
die. The whalerS was INQnly a st 1''ltii
vessel VI. a 81 !. Il,
'."rhe whale was In q nYch higher
LATITUDE when It encountered the Dun
can, I supposed behave tina THIS y ",
animal sunk the Duncan, because " IS
q very rare occurrence for ], W Y tp
their quarry and then losing them "
seems strange that this VERY. w nale,
which was the means Of abruptly enc,
ing eight human lives. slo uld IN turn
die at the hand $ OF man al ter g &lApse
Isl cut into a whale once before In
1902. but this one had been Lead Ior
some time and was merely tioatlng
that accident was the UNPLEASANT odorf
from which the vessel 81 fere
TESTIfY AT RICE INQUEST
Car Men Tell OF Passengers on Night
NJ III a OF Murder.
Cleveland. o., August Is, Street car
men on cars that passed the SO enc OF
the murder OF William I. Rice, mill
5lionnire attorney axl club ma n. short
" before and aftergit took 8placeson the
night OF August s, were with esses at
.thes inauest into his death to "a ay. Cor
5one ~ IS oesgar hoped to- got from them
tho identity8of every person on cars
in the vicinity Of Euclid Heights that
William u i sNelsqn cromwell' Riee's New
.tnyNtake the stand tomorrow. The
authorities do not expect any !. resu is
from he arrest at Cambr! Id sc Strings,