| Show A FIGHT WITH WILD DUCKS lallor nal ante u lei antto battla jetti with out oat t to sea capt william T bernard and the I 1 team steam tug plymouth arrived from bos ton at Phi philadelphia Melphia a few days clays ago wit nit three barges in tow after one of th roughest rouff hest passages ever inde end n than tho the elements to cf vi vieb tb cl ing the trip having been attic at i i the vineyard sound during the hurricane of rebr february uary 10 ai by r trem tremendous 0 adous flock of wit will 1 I tlc alc d tiit that had been carried from the ian 1 I 1 11 I 1 the wind they fou fought iii don draper mm aga against epst the side oz oi tho the tu tn s housa a 1 paw powerful erful electric I 1 lihs ig alit on the th ra ni i head which was tha fid object t 1 n r attracted them Wills nii t crt c deck and n d was knocked flat by one c anfu the infuriated rioted birds which new flew direct pt et him striking lAng liim him on the breast T substantiate this strange story told to press pres reporter capt bernard s kavc lv twelve of the birds that tell fell exha exhausted uste from their struggled glea on the decks anu ana thoy they aro am now at hia homo home the plymouth after passing chatham just bedfor sundown on february 19 experience experienc heavy rains soon vie tho wind veered t the northwest and ble blew w a hurricane a 11 companied companies compa nied by blinding snow aqua squa at nine at night capt bern bernar r and mate willard were both in ti th t i pilot house when a fluttering noise wr heard aicard to windward with tho the aid i marine glasses they could discern it hugo dark formation moving directly toward them and soon a flock of full throe three hundred ducks made for the v ael el they flew directly toward the cle ck z masthead liht light and in striking tl ali a polo pole fell by the dozen to the deck soni of the sailors were terrified at first b the fluttering noise but bat on bein being convinced what etwas it was went on deck and caught tally fully fifty of them and stowed them away in the tore foria peak tho the birds were ravenously hungry having been carried miles from the land in the teeth of the heavy gale they could not fly back such was the force of the tho wind a and nd those that failed to light on the plymouth were carried off to sea a and nd no doubt perished for foi fully an hour the birds kept things in a state of excitement cit ement oa board the tug tu and capt bernard co it was one of the cie most remarkable experiences ho he had haa ever seen been or heard of in upward ot of a 2 of a century of sea life |
