Show I 1 OFF thi the life suing giving crew shoot dim him and dra draz ulm ashore special 3 F J Chr chronicle service nov 22 the crew of tho the georgia life baying saving station midway between bridge hampton and east hampton Hamp tun discovered a large whale yesterday afternoon spouting a short distance dia tanco from the shore they bad had no whale boats nor experienced wha lemen among them bridge hampton the nearest place where a whaling outfit la is kept is four miles away and d the men realized that before whale or they could row down there tho the whale might be miles away they launched a common fish dory took a gun fearlessly up to the whale while the monster was evidently asleep far he made no effort to escape the men rowed close op up to him and aimed the gun at what they believed to be a vital soot and BO so it proved they fired and the shot struck right the leviathan pitched and lashed the water for a few minutes minute bat but soon died the victorious crow crew towed the whale ashore where a crowd awaited them the capture of the whale is very unusual nowadays in la these those parts and when the tile landed they were gr greeted eted with a mighty shoot shout the whale proved to be forty feet long and ia is worth about 1000 |