OCR Text |
Show More Than $3,000,000 Lies in Bark Sunk Off the Zululand Coast. LONDOX, Aug. 3. (Correspondence of tho Associated Press.) To recover more than $3,000,000 in gold, part of the fortune of the late Oom Paul Kruger, once president presi-dent of tho Transvaal, which is believed to be cemented in tho hold of the bark Dorothea, sunk on Tenedos reef off the coast of Zululand, is one of the projects which miay bo revived as a result of improvement im-provement in the science of salvaging sunken ships. Tiie Dorothea is named among tho list of wrecks of eight treasure ships located off the African coast which are regarded by one leading expert as most likely for salvage. It is believed the Kruger fortune stili lies in the bottom of the Dorothea among tlie iageed rocks of Tenedos reef. Some years ago a syndicate was organized to attempt its recovery, but a government steamer, tho Alfred Noble, failed to eal-aeii eal-aeii it. Captain A. P. Gardiuler has located thirty-eight hulls of sunken vessels off the coast of South Africa and believes that one-quarter of them may be redeemed. re-deemed. Fight of tlie ships selected as susceptible of salvage, with their locations and value of contents, are given as follows: fol-lows: Tho Grosveuor, on the pendoland coast, ?$,T.00). Arlston, lUarcus bay, $4,000,000. Plrkenhead, Plrkcnhead reef, $3,000,000. Atlas, east coast. $3.f00,000. Dorothea, Tenedos reef, 13,230.000. Thunderbolt, Thunderbolt reef, $2,750,-000. $2,750,-000. Abercrombie, Black Rock, ?ono.000. Merestotn, Jutton if'.und, $700. 000. A second list of phips luring treasure hunters to tho African coast includes spven wreck e In 1S2. nnmr.ir them being be-ing H. M. S. Candos with ?2no.OOO in gold coin; the troop ship Addison, with $100,-000. $100,-000. Other carried copper, a hold full of lv.ry, or silver ingots. |