Cleveland County herald., 1921-01-06
MEET GHOSTS IN
 OCEAN DEPTHS
Apparitions That Have Appeared to Divers While Exploring Be-
 meath the Seas.
WHEN HIS DREAM CAME TRUE
Diver Has Desperate Struggle for Life When Companion Suddenly Goes lnsane-Tapped on Shout
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 London.--Considerin the number of people who have found a last resting place at the bottom of the sea, 1t is not surprising that divers should oc- casionally come across what are pop liarly known as ghosts.
 A diver. while employed one day in bringing up various articles from the wreck Of the Royal George, which went down off Spithead on August 28. f7S2, being seized with sudden fit of drowsiness, fell asleep. He dreamed three times in succession that just as he was about to pick up curiously wrought silver dish from among mass of debris, a very tall figure, dressed in a diving suit, sprang at him and tried to cut the lifeline.
 As at this time the other two men he was working with were both of short stature, not in the least degree like the figure in his dream, he soon forgot it.
 But great was his trepidation one morning when on turning up at his work he found one of his mates ab- sent and a newcomer-a very tall man-in his place. Indeed, so alarm ed was he that, on descending Iie took with him a stout cudgel and warned those in charge of the com munication rope to be on the alert for a signal. however slight. On arriving ~.k I,o ha4 hn o4 oVN the wreck, and, amid a pile of loose spars, he came upon a dish exactly like the one he had seen in his dreams.
 When Divers Dream Came True.
 He was staring at 1t in a kind of fiazed fashion when suddenly he saw his companion, the new diver, coming toward him. just as he had seen the figure in his dreams, and the next mo- ment he was engaged in the most desperate struggle for his life.
 lie succeeded in administering such q severe blow on the hand of his as- sailant with his stick that the latter dropped the knife with which he had been armed, and before he could pick it up again our friend the dreamer had pulled the communication cord and was drawn up out of danger. It sub sequently transpifed that the new diver had gone ravlng mad.
 Another curious case occurred not so many years ago off the coast of Galway Some divers were employed in looking for the remains of Spanish treasures when one Of their party, wandering little apart from the rest, saw a dim light in the distance.
 Advancing toward 1t. he discovered that 1t proceeded from the porthole of wreck of very ancient date
 Approaching the ship not without trepidation, he peeped in, and saw, to his amazement, an old man. with a very long beard, kneeling down ex- amning an iron clasped oaken chest. By and by he raised the lid, and dip ping his hands in, drew them out full of golden coins, which he played with like a child plays with some new toy.
 Tapped on Shoulder by Double.
 The diver. happening at this junc- 2ure to make noise, the old man turned round, revealing a face of the most ghastly pallor, which so terrified 4he diver that he turned tail and fled back to his mates with far more haste than dignity. Pooh pooling his story, they went back with him, and there, sure enough, in the very spot he had described, was the ship. and what was even more wonderful, the chest of gold, Lastly, there is the case of the diver who was repairing one of the London bridges. He had made his descent into the water, and was kneeling down ex- amining the masonry, when he felt something tapping him on the shoul- der. He looked round. when to his utmost terror he saw standing at his shoulder, peering down at him, an ex- act counterpart of himself
 The following day, against the ad- vice of his wife. who was Scot and very superstltious he again went down in the same place, ard, piece of loose masonry falling on him, he was killed.
 COAL DROPS-SLOWLY
 St. Louis, Dec. 31.-Reductions of from 25 to 75 cents a ton, effective January l, were announced by three large coal companies here today.
 Such liberal liberal reductions, it is feared, will cause a riot among the consumers, and the police re- serves may have to be called out. es*********sv. *****: 4 '