Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-21
FREAK WRECKS OF THE SEA.
How One Vessel Was Used by Town
of Ocos to Supply Lights.

other. with smelly kerosene lamps for
illumination, and the luxuries of life
fewer than you'd expect to find in an
Arizona adobe. And then suppose a It'd
i al wave came along and smashed
/ things up pretty generally. but ended
by picking up fine big steamer and
| washing her over the bar int shoal
water near the beach. leaving her
| thei .. high and dry.
And then suppose an enterprising
| citizen of the village, seeing that the
vessel was intact and all her machin-
cry undamaged. sent to the nearest
| source of supply-whieh in this case
was Tehautepec. just $50 miles distant
and obtained q goodish length Of
electric cable and quantities OF lamps,
assorted sizes. and rugged UP the caple
between the ship and the shore, aud
pumped current from the wrecks dy-
namos which he retailed at strlctly
commercial rates. to all ambitious ma
tives who fancied the glow of the in
candescen. bulb in their palm-thateh-
ed. corrugated homes Wouldnt that
he interestingly it were true, that is!
OF course, you don't believe Ii couio
he true. It's too much like chapter
from story about South American
revolution. and an athletic youhS
American engineer thrown in.
'rhe funny thing about tins parliea-
lar story however. is that II Is troe'
II actually happened 1t was along
about four years ago that the ssealliei
Osiris. of the Kosmos line, Oh ssh
Francisco, was lying off ocos, .'uh.e
uala. when an earthquake SHOOK tna'
mart Of the world and was followed by
a tidal wave big enough TO PICK up
steamship and carry her over Inc III
terveuing sand banks to a point near
The beach. where ii dropped her hea'is,
between two reefs just sufficiently lar
anart to provide her with co}nlorsd-
BILE cradle. ,ar
when her crew left her, judging her
tn he of no further use, CUE" u
occs. who had some experience 81 CIV
,i,oa ,ife. rowed out to the unin)urea
wreck ana cast a speculative eye oaei
her contents Later he sent TO aeNie'
for the necessary materials, anu
eeedea to form the Ocos Electro Lis,i'
aod Power Company. Ocos TOOK .,,s
hoo, all the way down its guiie.,a'..
iron struggled for more. 10 th'''h ~
having a real electric lighting pant
,.as hardly to believed. Ana every etsi
v.n If Oeos lerded it over the cieiAe.is
Of the other village seaport atoi.e "
Guatemala coast. which co''io nv
haast such munifieent luxury. :,
M no anywhere in 0cos soeie.E :.
,,.cessary to be able to point W a.
least one eight-candlepower iiieahoe
cant nendent from the roof OF tue ns
;,s,, room rrhe Mayor and Councit even
,,,.,,,esded 10 have the principal streses
80 Rnsiness hummed. The padfe
ia tho church wired. People came
60 60 and near to admire. OcoS
,,as NV way of becoming ore Oh 'te
principal points of interest III a.. ~.
.omaIa and it was rumored that 'ie
President himself contemplate p
ing a visit to such an ehteip''s''e
community. ,, ,,are
.r,en. behold. as joy and priae W.
Al their height, what should nappen
| hut a brief communication 10 the 80
Electric Light and Power ooi1ip".'
from, the Kosmos Line oil Sah
ca stating that salvage opei a'.s -
would shortly he begun Win an 'u ,.H
ri yettinc the undamaged nun VI
,,siris into deep water, $50 'ha' 81
r,igbt resume her pereSrinatiohs aiono
the Pacific Coast.
can vou imagine the grief In ocos
e.n Won conceive the misery vi
u,vor. who saw his streets oepi
| f their glowing decorations anu
IIons of progress2 Can you e'ii.
| the misery of the padre, VINO oeieiu
| at,,r,b hereft of one of its most sim
ing ornaments? Can you even
l ~ .oonv of soul of the citizens "i
.nt;cinated their return to dePehae
-, kerosene. with all the Fieoe
| ..,ol,iress which it entailed!
- +.s been almost too great ou
| 90 aisappointment for Ocos W oeo
- have seen their source OF iliui'.i,
a.;on cut off. the salvage crew
~, on the lighting plants Iese"1
-, nresently. they Will even
na - witness its actual dei.at'ui
1VHe e., of the wrecking tug II VIZ
| GROW smaller and smaiier ". "a, dis
! If the waters, until at lae. 49, d;rec-
| ennear over tie horizon III ~, Norte.
| ZION Of the F,stados uniooe 49, and
wnore every one has eiec'iie Nv" .,,e sub
| ,ha osiris will cease to OCCUPY oiv,,i-
| ,;.r,a POSITION of a foreruhhe' ocean
| ,.tion and become an
'fa ,main IT should be iterated, ,n,a
60 story. And let any CON- art,on
erae that doubts the ass sen to
eo na one Of it's cleverest young INT MT, $50
seha Gu GHuatemala-which is aoe sa re-.
49, fron the terminus OF LUZ
miles Railway-with ins., STU and
'l'u aas the Mayor and the pay rnere is
TO see citizen of the place. "a nc - in
ee.. like promoting nau'' If lux
i,o NOT - belief in the necessity ocos,
a ',u,as The incandescen's y .erosene
uries, ,feless: the reek OF ks'o Coos
g sm Tho streets at night. AM no.
ms Ills. tue it's descent from the pr ,,aa an
. oo.", If a municipality ooas'.a mere
s,tl. .r,o u light power company 10 'nackle
eies of huts behind ra'''s
wharf. ., inf the OSIRIS
A,s AN lone for tragic interest," shins
sla'' at,or Instances on record y,
are ashore and used for pu'p Per
a.a. 70 the builders inten,loas - the
tor ore, TIC most noted case is tha' war e.
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