Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-07-19
VERYTABLE SHARK SCOURGE.
Numbers of Persons on North Attain
tic Coasts Have Been Killed.

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of a human body was killed at Key
port, n. j., to-day, according to in
formation received at the weather
bureau here from the observer at
Lone Branch, N. j. The shark,
weighing 800 pounds and II feet
long, was killed near the mouth Of
Matawan Creek, n. j., and is un-
doubtedly the same fish which yes
terday invaded the creek and killed
two persons, the weather bureaus
informant reported.
Hundreds Hunt Shark.
Matawan, N. j., July 13.-Hun-
dreds of armed men in rowboats and
launches were hunting to-day for the
man-eating shark that yesterday
killed boy and man and danger
ously injurcu another youth in Mata-
wan Creek, and caused a reign of
terror all along the New Jersey
coast. 1t was reported this morning
that another man, named Baldwin,
was attacked and killed by A shark
"l MY poi l, ~. D., 1T LHe mouth Ol the
creek.
The body of Lester Stillwell. 10
years old, has not been recovered
and it is believed that the shark de-
Voured the lad. w. S. Fisher, "a
years old, who was attacked by the
shark when he tried to rescue the
Stillwell boy, died upon reaching the
SHIRE. JOS. Il Durn, 10 years old
was in a precarious condition in a
New Brunswick hospital to-day,
where 1t was said the injuries he re-
ceiveG from the shark might prove
fatal.
Bathing 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. The tragedy yes
terday was all the more startling be-
cause 1t occurred in waters / 6 miles
from the ocean. Matawan Creek is
a tidewater stream about SO feet
vile and from eight to fifteen feet
deep 1t empties into Raritan Bay.
The mouth Of the creek is at Key
port. The shark to get there from
the Atlantic ocean had to round
Sandy Hook and cross through the
lower bay into Raritan Bay at the
southern end Of Staten Island.
The first person who saw the g.
foot &na' X yesterday was Can't. II. B.
Cottroil, Of koyport, as he started
MP the creek about noon. Fifty, or
more persons were bathing. Capt.
Cottrell says he warned them. About
the sams time number Of men on
draw bridge saw the shark glide
by. Capt. Cottlell hurried up the
creek in his motor boat to warn bath
ers, most of whom LEFT the waters
Immediately. The others ignored
the warning because they did not
believe an attack by a shark proba-
Bile 16 miles from the open sea.
FoLr persons have been killed by
sharks and two manned along the
New Jersey coast during the last ten
days.
Scaboard Infested.
The waters Of the Atlantic sea-
board are infested with shark
While hundreds OF armed men in
motor boats were patrolling the New
Jersey coast to-day in search Of the
man-eating monsters which have
caused the deaths OF four bathers,
the British sloop Sir George Somer
arrived from the Bermudas with a
score of sharks the crew had caught
in the gulf stream.
The last was caught off the New
Jersey coast Tuesday. The crew said
that the big fish were numerous and
hungry. They followed the ship and
snapped viciously at bait. They said
that sharks in Bermuda waters were
common, but that they did not expect
to see them so far north. Those
caught were pulled in with hook and
line and killed as they were hoistcd
aboard.
Dread Of the monsters has virtu-
ally cleared the middle Atlantic coast
beaches Of bathers, according to re-
ports received here to-day, while
enclosing their bathing places with
steel nets.
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