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Show Harpoon Tells the Story of a Whaler Lost Seven Years Ago Philadelphia, Aug. 19. A seven- j years' mystery of the sea may be sol'- ' "d through a mishap to the rjenoan j ' steamship ralarza, which struck a I whale at sea, nearly cutting Uie main- ' Pial in two and disclosing a harpoon j believed to have beien used by the 1 little whaler James T. Duncan, which was lot In l?fi3. . - ' j The Duncan sailed from Halifax, j with a crew of seven ineit. In the : spring of that year and has. not been j Mure heard from. j Captain Fondle of ihe Palanza. vlili.ti arrived here from Hamburg. : reports that he ran Into the whale j on August 11. I The creature firmly Impaled 1 cn the prow of the steamer and died J after a terrific struggle. Members of ! ihe crew were let down to chop away 1 Mie carcass and the sailors found tho liiirpoon ImpcddM In the whale, pn Ihe end of tho harpoon was an Iron band stamped ".I. T. D. 1902 " 1 Captain Fendle keep a close rec- ' ord of wrecks and he came to the con- ', elusion that the whale may have been responsible for the loss of the 1 Duncan. "I think if may be that men of the Duncan drove this weapon Into the v. hale and. in the struggle which fol- j lowed, the vessel was sunk by a b'ow from the animal's tail." be said "You d think so, too, if you bad seen j that whale die." |