Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-01-17

had run down a ship in fog. Inc
shin had gone down with all on boaru
before ANYTHING could be done TO save
them, and this man had seen the iaS'
of her crew leaning over the SIDE ana ,
cursing at him horribly, just before |
he was sucked into the water
He promised to find me out ana
TO do for me wherever | shoulo 20,
| said the shuddering wretch, and ne IL
| do II. too. | look for him every night
! and | know he'll get me before long
Il warned him to keep quiet about
his fears and not mention MS story ~
Captain Stebbins Ror to any OF the
crew for as luck would have 1t, with
such a captain. we had on board about
az superstitious a lot as / have ever
seen. Italians most OF them, and so
bound to tell their stories OF apparf
tions that the captain had already
caught one of them at it and had him
logged as an example to the others
MY man didn't look any more con
tented as the days passed ana
caught him more than once whisper
ing with some of the Italians. | asked
. him what they were talking about ana
at first he mumbled that 1t was moth
ing. but at last he admitted that the
sailors had several of them seen
, strange sights during the night watch
They all decided that again and again
: thew had seen a figure with Wildly
r waving arms appear from the dark
aluQVC pnrS1no
: horribly, but he was gone in SECOND
), and thew could not tell exactly wha'
A. he said.
II ct tried 20 comfort Gould with the
% idea that since the man had not ap
,e peared to him there was no reason
Il that he should regard the apparitiol
a as that of the man he had run down
m but he would not let this ease nj
" mind in the slightest. 1t was JUS
II the night after our conversation whe
VS. he was on watch that the climax
by the thing came.
10 81 heard a terrific scream from IN
DIV bridge. and so did everybody else
ne board. | was the first up there oi
lg the poor fellow. who was whittier tina
no anv human being | have ever see
ne could not tell me what had happene
Ter before Captain Stebbins had run
wn on the bridge and was shaking NIL
wn declaring that he had a relapse OF Il
to fever. which we all knew he had 81
eli fered after coming OFF the voya
or when he had run down vessel.
,ay THE fellow had been too mu
[ startled. however, this time to
did managed even by Captain Stebbins.
"I did see him., he declared. "a
of he was cursing and waving His arr
ON ar me lust as he did when he we
tie, down. The ship came up just II
ipt n did before out of the fog. The
Ma it was all of sudden a great or
4zil. thing. and there was he waving
d. arms and screaming curses at
the And then we kept right on, runni
for straight through the ship
per- THAT was all of it. and so far
to know he never saw the APART
lral again and he had no more hard tin
en-. than fall to the lot of most sailC
Is | But here was the remarkable part
han the thing If he had been the o
we're one to know that anything stra1
me. had happened. then you might tn
hem il. Just the Pigment of a brain o'
help wrought with fever. But 1t wa
and only his scream that brought capt
and crew running to his side. Just
@ to the time when he saw the phan
look ship and as our own vessel "
hite through it, every man on board
deck a peculiar sensation. 1t was so
thing like an earthquake and SO
ears thing like the shock that might G.
e OF from running vessel down.
Neen It was on board the Marienne
they tebohm, a freighter sailing betw