Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-14
MONSTER SHARK IS
KILLED AT KEYPORT.
Part of Human Body is Found
in Stomach Of the Big Fish
Caught Near New York.
IT KILLED MAN AND BOY

New York, July IA monster
shark whose stomach contained part
of human body, was killed at Key
port, N. j., today, according to in
formation received at the weather
bureau here from the observer at
Long Branch, N. J.
The waters of the Atlantic sea-
board are infested with sharks,
While hundreds OF armed men in
motor boats were patrolling the New
Jersey coast today in search of the
man-eating monsters which have
now caused the death of four bath
ers, the British sloop Sir George
Somers arrived from Bermuda with
score of sharks the crew had
caught in the gulf stream during
their twelve days voyage to this port.
The last was caught off the New
Jersey coast the day before yester-
day. The crew said that the big
fish were numerous and hungry.
They followed the ship and snapped
viciously at bait Those caught were
pulled in with hook and line and
killed as they were hoisted aboard.
Dread of the monsters has vir-
tually cleared the middle Atlantic
coast beaches of bathers, according
to- reports received here today,
while many summer resort proprie-
tors are enclosing their bathing
places with steel nets.
The shark killed today weighed 800
pounds and was eleven feet long. 1t
was killed near the mouth of Mata-
wan Creek, N. J., and is undoubtedly
the same fish which yesterday in
vaded the creek and killed two per-
sons, the weather bureaus informant
reported.
Shark Kills Man and Boy.
Matawan, N. J., July l3.-Hun-
dreds of armed men in row boats and
launches were hunting today for the
man-eating shark that yesterday
killed boy and man and dangerously
injured another youth in Matawan
creek and caused reign of terror all
along the New Jersey coast.
1t was reported this morning that
another man named Baldwin was at
tackled and killed by shark at Key
port, N. j., at the mouth of the creek
The body of Lester Stillwell, II
years old, has not been recovered and
it is believed the shark devoured the
lad.
w. Stanley Fisher, "a years old,
who was attacked by the shark, when
he tried to rescue the Stillwell boy,
died upon reaching the shore.
Joseph Ralph Dunn, 10 years old,
was ina precarious condition. in a
New Brunswick hospital today
where it was said the injuries he re-
ceived from the shark might prove
fatal.
Bathing Nearly Suspended.
The scare that has been felt along
the New Jersey shore, mainly in sum-
mer resorts, since the first shark raid
on bathers, has virtually suspended
all beach bathing. Even at Coney
Island precautions were taken against
4 visit of the shark. The tragedy
was all the more startling
because it occurred in waters sixteen
miles from the ocean.
Matawan creek is tidewater
stream about fifty feet wide and from
eight to fifteen feet deep. 1t empties
into Raritan bay, The mouth of the
creek is at Keyport. The shark, to
get there from the Atlantic ocean, had
to round Sandy Hook, cross through
the lower bay into Raritan bay at
the southern end of Staten island.
The first person who saw the nine
foot shark yesterday was Captain
Thomas B. Cottrell of Keyport, as he
started up the creek about noon.
Fifty or more persons we're bathing,
Captain Cottrell says, and he warned
them.
About the same time number OF
men on bridge saw the shark glide
by. Captain Cottrell hurried up the
creek in his motor boat to warn
bathers, most of whom left the waters
Immediately. The others ignored the
warning because they did not believe
an attack by shark probable sixteen
miles from the open sea.
Four persons now have been killed
by man-eating shark and two
manned along the New Jersey coast
during the last ten days.
J