Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1911 — EATEN BY HUGE SHARK. [ARTICLE]

EATEN BY HUGE SHARK.

Fate of Indiana Boy Who Became Delirious With Fever While Returning From ' India. Sulliavn, Ind., Feb. 4.—William Henderson, age twenty, of this city, while delirious with fever, jumped into the Indian ocean, four weeks ago, and was swallowed by a huge shark. Ths is the statement made by Dr. E. H. East, a medical missionary to Burmah, employed by the American Baptist Missionary Union, who arrived in this city today to inform David W. Henderson, an oil driller, of the fate of his son. Young Henderson, in company with Hr. East, wa- returning home from the oil fields of Rangoon. The former was sick with fever, and, according to the story of Dr. East, and the sworn statement of the captain of the steamship America, Henderson sprang overboard into the waters of the Indian ocean while out of his mind. Sailors lowered a lifeboat and went to his rescue, but before they reached him an immense shark caught the young man in its jaws and disapepared. A sailor picked up young Henderson’s hat and sank back into the boat just in time to escape the fierce snapping of another large shark. The returning missionary, who is a resident of Chicago and has come home for a' few months* recuperation. brought to the grief-stricken parents, in this city, their son’s baggage.