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Show HUGE DEVIL-FISH IS MILLED AFTER FIGHT OF FIVE HOURS m in 1 I .JOH.Nso.V. X. V . Sn . i;;l ( , l -jond !lCO. MILTON. Ala.. July 24 After a terrific sen battle lasting five and one-, half hours what Is believed to be the second largest devil-fish ever taken' from the "'t:n was killed here by a party of fishermen headed by W. B.I llarbeson, president of a large lum-l ber company The flah was 19 feet across the (back The largest of record was 22' feet. Hurbeson's monster weighed! 3.000 pound Harbeaon aighted the beast late one afternoon! while Bailing the Gulf of; Mexico In a light fishing boat He drove home a harpoon, but after a ' 3j-intnme fight the devil-fish broke away carrying his tackle Th. following day, armed with the' heaviest harpoons and lines, Harbeson,' his two sons. alter and William, and four friends, embarked again to flndi the monster. SKilfTS DFX IL-FI-nH. That day and most of the next he searched. Finally he sighted his quarry. quar-ry. Driving tho boat alongside, his son, leaped to the back of the brute and drove the pronsed harpoon deep Int the flesh Then began a battle royal The blood gushing from the devilfish's devil-fish's wound, stained the water The; j spouting stream by which the blgi j Oephlapods propuel-themselves was a' 1 red geyser. I I The devil-fish lore through the wa- ter and headed for the miter s. a carrying car-rying the little boat and its paaaengera so rapidly that foam dashed at the bows Sharks were attracted by the blood and followed the boat. Realizing the peril from sharks, yet unwilling to give up the devll-fiah Hurheson lashed two life preaervera to the grass rope holding the harpoon, har-poon, cut the rope and then turned back to take his son from tin water Hampered by the weight of ih? dragging life preservers, the devilfish devil-fish slowed lis course and the boat overhauled it CHANGES VGAIN. Once, howexer, the octopus felt the boat behind it again, it redoubled Its efforts to escape and with the occupants occu-pants clinging to the gunwalea, tho little vessel headed once more for the open sea. Four miles from land, the devilfish devil-fish suddenly changed tactics, sounded and. when It came again to the surface, sur-face, headed with top speed back to Milton Bay To the surprise of the fishermen, the monster made for shallow water and llterallv dashed Itaelf on the sand The blood loss from the Jagged harpoon har-poon gash and the exhaustion of the long race for lift made it easy to kill on the beach. Those who aided Harbeson. beside his sons, were: Henry Wesley of E'eFuniack Springs: W L King.. Ted Muldon and Lieut. J. A W'hllted. all of Pensacola. |