Show MYSTERY OF SEA SEEMINGLY SOLVED BY Iii AN ACCIDENT Harpoon of Long Missing Vessel Found in Giant Whale PHILADELPHIA Aug 19 A A seven een years years' mystery of th the sea a. a may be solved through a mishap to the Gorman German etc steam steam- am- am Pallanza which struck a whale at sea sea nearly cutting the mammal In ln two and disclosing a e. harpoon believed to have been used by the tho little whaler James Jamea T. T Duncan which was lost in 1903 Th TM Duncan sailed from Halifax with a crew of seven men in Sn the spring spring- of ot that year ear and has bus not since been heard from Ca Captain Fendt of the Pallanza which arrived ed here from Hamburg reports that ho he ran late into the whale on August 11 The creature was firmly Impaled ton on the prow of at the tho ste steamer mer and died after a a. terrific struggle Members of the CrOWS crow were let letdown letdown letdown down to chop away the carcass and the sailors found the harpoon Imbedded Inthe Inthe in inthe the whale hale On the end ond of the harpoon was wu an iron band J 3 or T. T D. D 1902 I keeps Fe dt keeps a close r or orand wrecks and he came eme to the conclusion that the whale may have have been cn responsible Bible sible for or tho the loss los of the Duncan I I 1 think It safe aate to say may that of the Duncan drove this weapon into the whale the whale and in Iri the struggle which followed the vessel was sunk by a blow from the tho animals ani ani- ani animals animal's animals animal's mals mal's taU tall he said think so too if It you OU had seen that whale die |