Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1915 — Sea Gave Up Old Car. [ARTICLE]

Sea Gave Up Old Car.

A unique instance of the sea giving up its dead—although in this case the fullest allowapce must be made for poetic license —came to light recently at Newport Beach, on the southern coast of California. The “dead” took the form of a Southern Pacific flat-car, which was washed into the ocean a quarter of a century ago, and ever since had lain at the bottom of the sea; In 1890 a terrific storm washed part of the pier away, three flat-cats thus being lost. Two were later washed up on the beach, but the third was never seen again until a recent storm of unusual violence brought it to light not far from the spot where it had disappeared so many years ago. Though covered with rust, the iron ' truss rods and couplings are in fairly good condition, and the wooden beams do not appear to be much the worse for their long immersion.—Argonaut.