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Show FISH WRECKS BOAT; " BREAKS MAN'S LEG Specimen Captured off Washington Washing-ton Coast to Be Given to University. Dungeness, wash. Destroying three expensive salmon nets, breaking one man's leg and wrecking a row-bftxt, a gigantic wolf fish, fifteen feet long, paid the death penalty after two hours of fight off the sand spit here. ; Fast In the nets, the wolf fish lay quiet and subdued until disturbed by j Two Hours of Fight. the fishermen, when with a swift rush he overwhelmed the party. The fish possesses a head as large as that of a cow, massive Jaws studded with barrow teeth, and Is endowed with powerful strength. It Is said to be one of the largest of the species ever caught in the north Pacific. Pa-cific. The huge Jaws and teeth are used for crushing clams, crabs and other shellfish, hen cleaned for preservation, preser-vation, this wolf fish monster had In Its stomach a recent breakfast, consisting con-sisting of nearly 200 pounds of oysters, oys-ters, el am whole fish, three salmon heads, a tentacle of a squid, a hair-seal hair-seal flipper, the neck of a ketchup bottle and threo cork floats from the nets. The state un'terslty will get the specimen. |