Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1889 — Found After a Century. [ARTICLE]

Found After a Century.

The Pall Udall Gazette reports a strange tale of the sea from the Baltic. More than a hundred years ago two vessels went to the bottom of the Gulf of Finland, the cargo of one of which consisted of glittering silver. Two diving companies at Bevel have lately begun to explore jthe submarine regions near Jussaro, where the vessels sank, and the divers have now really come upon them. But, like the castle in which the “Sleeping Beauty” lay, the hulls have all been overgrown by a century’s growth of sea-weeds and tang. Now a way has been cut through this wet wall of weeds, but as yet the interior of the vessel has not been explored, as the divers fear that the deck is too rotten to carry them. Of the treasures of silver nothing has so far come to hand, but the remains of apples, cucumbers, buckles, coffeepots, and shoes with pointed toes have been brought to the light of day, together with some well-corked bottles, all of which, however, burst as soon as the “air of heaven” touched them. The second vessel lies farther out to sea; on its deck lies«a great heavy stone, which is evidently part of the cargo.