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Show II . Valuable Cargo Cast Info Sea 1 in Effort to Float Stranded I Mi n n eli ah a. 1' I ' DAY OF GREAT JOY I FOR SCILLY FISHERMEN i i I Everything From Autos and I; Pianos to Sales of Cigar-I Cigar-I cites Picked Up. I , HUGIITOWN, Scilly Islands, April I' , 20. The inhabitants of the rocky I Scilly islands were fnmoiis wreckers of U primitive times, but they will forever I ' remember this as the grant est lay I' their hisiorv. The Atlantic Transport liner Minnehaha, wrecked Monday, (lis-J1, (lis-J1, gorged part of her 17,000 tons of I valuable cargo, casting it upon the t waters all day long, to bo gathered up by those who enved to lake the trouble. Farming and iishing were abandoned, and even school was dismissed, while most of tho population of the noar-b' islands, men, women and children, ' devoted themselves to obtaining trcaa ures from the waters. The salvagers decided to trv to rcseuo tho Minnehaha 1 by cutting her in half in the same way the White Star steamship Suevic, which J went ashore near the Lizard in March, I J)07, was saved. n Toda- waves beat up too high and strong for tho tugs to go alongside. ' Consequently, goods were thrown overboard over-board from "tho forward hold as fast as tho stevodorcs and a large crew could raise thorn to tho deck. Huge cases containing automobiles ; u and pianos followed one auother over : " , tho side, striking tho wator4 with a i great splash. Sewing machines and ; clocks wont with them, whilo furniture lloatcd overywhere. Mnny bales of . cigarettes covered tho face of the water, and tons, of cheap American - It novels arnica to loo ncnr-Dy snore or j J Bryher. whero thoy wero "pilod like , seaweed. X Tidings of tho jettisoning of wealth spread early, and a flotilla of fishing craft, luggers and rowboafs scurried to the scone. As fast as the caro hit tho water tho enterprising boatsmon pulled up tho smaller eases, while they took the larger ones in tow. Most of tho machinery was taken from the wreck and transported to St. Mary's, whero tho customs officials took charge of it. It will be stored in warehouses and later sold by the insurance companies. Many boatloads of provisions vorc taken ashore by tho islanders. The people of Bryher island fished out boxes of foods, lea and tobacco and thousands of paper-covered novels, enough to lieep tho islanders in reading read-ing matter for a century. Two hundred and twenty-four cattle . ' swam ashore, while ten were drowned. The seamen hero think that it will be impossible to save the Minnehaha, L "and they look for tho first strong wind U to break her to pieces. |