Fight With a Shark.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 19, 20 December 1884, Page 4

Fight With a Shark.

A fearful shark adventure is recorded from Passade, a small (isliing village between Nice and Villefranche. Two fishermen returned late m the evening with a shark, measuring 10ft m length, m tow. The monster had been harpooned and lost considerable blood, which fact enabled them to draw it on shore easily, and secure it m their hut, intending to take it for exhibition to Nioe the next , day. : About, two o'clock m the morning a horrible noise arose -, from the hut, the. unearthly howling of a dog and screeching of children predominating, i The two iisliermen hurridly. lit their lamps and hastened to the spot* when a terrible sight met, their gaze: The monster whose wounds,,were not mortal, had so far reepverod that he was seen flapping about snapping at everything witHiri.reach. The! dog, which. had .been left sleep-, ing by the bed^of the twp phildWn; who: with their mother^ occupied the hut, had been nearly bitten iv two. ; The mother herself, m trying to shield the infants, had her two legs cut off. below the knee. Qne : of the' men seized a harpoon aTtdt managed to strike the brute m the eye, |but m the terrible: ;bounds; "it gave the lamps were knocked over and extinguished, and^i struggle of unprecedented horror took : place' inthe dark. ' < The fisherman suddenly mad 6 for the door, but Were Unable to open it. In the meantime a neighbouring fishermen Tlii'd' been drawin-tothe spot- by hearing the fearful dii^. .^yjtli his he|p tli£ two. diik|reflti»wjere first rescued tjirougii lsk smal window above the door, after whioli this w.as/ broken down, -by the united efforts of the men. 1 "The' shar^ was held by means of the thbiq, .thelegs^of -which. were almost bitten through as so much straw, and, directly the door was opened, it : flapped, jts. w.ay, outside , and s,ought the sea.^ Tt' ( was mastered in" the 1 ; end, however, through/ a /harpoon thrust m the remaining . Dr Gabrielli wasiiiimecliatiely sent foi", and amputated the stumps from the mother's legs; it is expected, sjbe . will recover. The children tuclcily escaped unhurt. — Galignani's Messehffkr.