Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1913-05-22
Eaten By D|||O|||GF|SH.
Fate Of Maine Fisherman Who
Fell Overheard From Dory.
Physician Had Marrow Escape While
Taking Plunge Right to Exter-
inmate Enemy Of Man and
Fishes OF the Atlantic. ls

Rockland, Me.--""And he said: MY
God. Frank, shoot me quick, shoot me
quick, the dogs are eatin' me alive
4''I hauled up my gun an pulled back
tn hammers, but couldn't do It
though warn't more n ten feet from
him, and could have blown his whole
head OF. l don't b'l've the Lord would
hev called tibet murder either.
Il Easped for air, n dropped my gun
on TIL seat, y, then | looked at Charlie
again n 1t was all over. Jest dark
red in tn water n . hundred ugly
shouts, n shinin' rows Of teeth Jest
gleamin' n snappin' thar in tn gray
Of that October afternoon"
It was Frank Oleson, q fisherman
OF Rockland, Me-, who spoke. He
was telling little group Of oilskin
clad fishermen about q tragedy Of 1885
when he and Charlie Freeman sailed
out Of Tenants Harbor, Me-, one Oc-
tober morning. Oleson brought the lit
tie sloop Alpine back the next morn
ing alone. Freeman had fallen over
board in the. midst of school of dog
fish, which had eaten him alive be-
fore the eyes OF his helpless compan-
panion.
They were bound for the fishing
grounds of Martinicus island. Freeman
had taken along a shotgun. When
five miles from Criehaven a bunch
| of coots, flying low, came skimming
along. Freeman fired into them, and
three or four dropped. The Alpine was
brought up into the wind, and with her
mainsail and jib Tapping the gunner
jumped into the dory and started to
pick up his game. 49, =, .v~.--
There was shout, splash, and
Freeman was struggling in the water.
In reaching over the side of the dory
he had lost his balance and fallen into
the choppy sea. In a moment the hun.
cry, sharkish dogs were after him.
The opening paragraph tells all there
is to tell Ia ....
Many stories are related to show
the ferocity of the dogfsh. 1t was not
more than dozen years ago that two
New York yachtsmen were lolling
along in sloop yacht in Penobscot
bay one July afternoon One of the
yachtsman, physician named Bow
ker, decided to take plunge. He
stripped and dived OF the bow of the
sloop, intending to pull himself into
the tender trailing behind as it passed
him. He had scarcely hit the water
before he let out a YELL He just
managed to catch the gunwale. of the
rowboat when his companion reach
ed him and hauled him in. Three ugly
wounds showed in his legs where the
voracious dogf1sh had bitten out
Chunks. He was taken into Rockland
where a physician treated him fol
several weeks before he was out OF
danger. f..
That the determination or at least
the thinning out of the dogfish is prac
ticable has been demonstrated. Thirty
five years ago the old Gloucester
schooner Water Lily, according to
Fred Lewis of Portland, who was q
member of the crew, sailed from the
Massachusetts, port in command of
Capt. George E. Robinson on an ex.
perimental trip
The Water Lily proceeded to Kettle
Bottom. about Is miles Off Orrs Island.
On the first day the high line dory
from 8 a. m. to 3 p. M had caught
1900 dogfish. From the total dogfsh
catch on the first day 2S5 buckets of
ivers were cut. Livers then brought
81 bucket, as they were converted
into oil. Cheaper and better CONNER
cial oils today have practically ended
their usefulness for this purpose