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21 y 1987 Tenday
Digging for gold
CAMBRIDGE, Ohio (AP)
Family legend in
the Watson family has it that a jar of gold had been
buried under the old homestead.
Last week, somebody found it.
A backhoe operator was removing the remains of
an old house Friday.
"Something kind of said to me, jokingly, 'That
jar might be full of money," " the operator, David
H. Rice, said Sunday.
He opened the glass Mason jar, which was stuffed
with tattered newspaper, and found 27 gold coins.
"When I unrolled that newspaper, my eyes
probably got bigger than the coins were,' Rice
said.
The coins, the size of nickels and quarters, were
neatly stacked and looked as if they never had been
circulated, Rice said. The 22 $5 coins and five $10
coins are from the 1890s and the early 1900s.
Mark Watson said his late father, William, used
to tell of buried gold on the land.
"It was just a thing in the back of his mind that he
had always known, that there was a Mason jar of
gold buried out there," said Watson, who believes
the gold was buried by his great-grandfather,
Jefferson Watson.
The coins, worth $4,500 to $20,000, are going to
stay in the family, Watson said.
"If it's worth $10 or $10,000, that's not what's
important," he said. "They will be considered
family heirlooms."
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te court, Matei ist,
ate of PATRICK BOLAND, late of
Haven. In sald district, deceased.
Court of Probate for the district of
Haven hath limited and appointed
onths from the date hereof for the
ora of sald deceased to bring in
claims against said estate Those
neglect to exhibit their claims within
time will ta debarred.
persons Indebted to sald estate are
sted to make immediate payment to
JOHN J. BOLAND.
Administrator.
RICT OF NEW HAVEN, aa. Pre
to Court, March 30th, 180
ate of CHARLES C HALDWIN,
New Haven, in sald district.
J
ry Staldwin of Durham. Conn.
* made written application praying
administration of said estate may
anted, as by said application on Ale
s Court more fully appears. It is
red That said application be heard
etermined at a Court of Probate to
at New Haven. In said district, on
th day of March, 19, at ten o'clock
⚫ forenoon and that publle notice of
endency of said application, and of
me and place of the hearing there-
e given to all parties Interested in
state, by publishing this order three
In a newspaper having a circula-
n said district.
order of Court.
Sip
ALBERT F. WELLES.
Clerk.
TRUSTEE'S SALE.
March 1900, at 10 o'clock a. m., in
7. No. & Church Street, New Haven,
the undersigned will sell at publie
n all the real estate and all the per-
estate which is not exempt belong-
the bankrupt estate of Theodore
s of sald New Haven. The real co-
ersists of the land and building in
New Haven known as Nos. 101 and
wn Street. (land about 255-12x110
And will be sold subject to the in-
aces thereen. (Principal of 3 mort-
2001. The personal property
fe of 3 pool tables complete, cash
erate., show case, ce box,
Ightera chahs and tables, clock and
xtures, now in saloon on sald Crown
remises
Haven, Conn.. Feb. 27, 1900.
HENRY FRESENIUS.
Trustee on Bald Estate.
7,21
OR
and double work.
Paine's Celery Compound is a medicine compounded to strengt
nerves, stomach, liver and kidneys.
TREASURE ELUDES HUNTERS
a curse. They were undismayed, how-
ever, and went back to the place. They
raised the stone which covered the
treasure and managed to get out some
of the silver. Their mother took it
Buckeye State Spiritualist's Patience in away from them, however,and warn-
a Hunt After Silver.
BURIED TREASURE AND MINE
Latter Bald to Have Boon Located, but the
Former Causes Extreme Exertion-Tra-
dition That Counterfoltors Made Use of
the Cave for a Storehouse Years Ago.
Chillicothe, O., March 21.-The ignus
fatuus of hidden treasure has lured
from their homes the people of Twin
and Huntington townships, this coun-
ty, and they are spending no little time
in trying to locate a cache of silver, val-
ued at $25,000, and the mine from which
it was taken, and which is believed
still to be rich with ore. The mine has
been found, but just how rich the ore
is will not be known until a chemical
examination has been made of it. The
[AD] $25,000 mass of pure silver still lurks
coyly in its hiding place and has thus
far refused to be discovered. The
story which is the cause of all this ex-
citement follows:
In the year 1797, there came to Ohio.
three Kentuckians, accompanied by a
negro slave. They were seeking a loca-
tion, and while looking about among
the hills of what is now Huntington
township, they chanced upon a mine of
silver. They tested it, proved its value
and at once set to work to mine it. In
a cave near by they set up a smelting
works. The ore, as it was dug out, was
taken there and converted into bar sil-
ver. Tradition says that they were not
content with the profit thus received,
but proceeded to coin counterfelt mon-
MAY NEVER RETURN TO
ed them never to go near the place Julia Arthur Will Retire for Tw
again. The silver she replaced beneath
the stone. Minney was so impressed
by the warning and the nature of the
curse that he made no further attempt
to secure the silver.
A short time ago, a spiritualist by the
neighborhood. He declared that he had
had a revelation that there was a lot of
silver burled in the neighborhood. Ho
fell in with old "Pomp" Minney, and
"Pomp" was moved to tell his story.
Stretcher, it seems, is of Indian extrac-
tion, or at least one of his ancestors
lived with the Paint Valley Indians for
many years, and had brought back with
him to civilization the story of a rich
silver mine in the Paint Creek valley.
This may explain Stretcher's revelation.
At any rate, he took Col. G. S. Coover,
one of the best known residents of that
Bection of the county, into his confi-
dence, and the colonel was so impressed
by the story that he consented to take
charge of the search expedition. A lease
was secured from the owner of the land,
Mr. John L. Baum, and the search com-
menced.
The abandoned mine was discovered
without especial difficulty. It consists
of a trench 20 feet wide, 35 feet deep and
about 1,500 feet in length. The sides
are badly caved in, but the vein of sil-
ver ore is plainly visible, and runs along
on top of the ground for nearly half a
mile before it dips out of sight. Speci-
mens of this ore were secured and will
be assayed, to determine if the mine is
worth working. The cave in the hil
where the Kentuckian had their smelt-
ing works was also located, but thus far
the silver which is supposed to have
been buried has eluded detection.
THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN.
sons, at Least
ALL DEPENDS ON HER HE
The Actress Loves the Stage, and
Back to It if Her Doctors Wil
Her to Do So-Her Husband Ontli
Vacation Plans.
Philadelphia, March 21.-Julia
will not return to the stage f
seasons at least, if ever agal
present illness made it imperat
disband her company, which was
ing "More Than Queen" in the
Street theater when the actres
prostrated. All dates for the
season have been canceled. N
Miss Arthur go before the foo
next year.
What the popular actress will
the future, her husband, Benjan
Cheney, said yesterday-dependз
ly upon the condition of her heal
her personal desire. Miss Arthu
known, is devoted to the stage.
anxious to go back to it if her
will permit. Should she do so a
season of rest, she will only apr
ten weeks, and in Philadelphia
York, Boston, Chicago and Sar
cisco. She will only. play in st
productions which need no "bl
out."
Mr. Cheney intimated that if f
thur goes back to the stage her
tory will include the "Mercha
Venice," "Romeo and Juliet," an
er Shakespearean plays, "She St

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17 Feb-1982 New Haven Evening Regul
1907 marine disaster
is still region's worst
WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) - It was
on a freezing night 75 years ago that
332 people died when the sidewheel
steamer Larchmont bound from
Providence, R.I., to New York City
collided with a coal-laden schooner
off Block Island in New England's
worst marine disaster.
The three-masted schooner Harry
Knowlton was plying from South
Amboy, N.J., to Everett, Mass., when
it rammed the port side of the Larch-
mont, ripping a hole almost half the
vessel's breadth. The Larchmont sank
within 15 minutes.
The crash occurred Feb. 12, 1907,
at about 11 p.m., only three miles off
the mainland at Watch Hill, R.I., but
because of the winds and the sea,
neither the crew nor the passengers
were able to row the eight lifeboats
and four life rafts toward Watch Hill.
The survivors, the boats, the de-
bris and the frozen dead encrusted
in ice - all washed ashore 15 miles
away on Block Island, still known for
its treacherous riptide at Sandy
Point.
"Men and women were bumping
into each other and struggling like
mad for a place in the boats. It was a
terrible sight and one that I will
never forget to my dying day," said
George W. McVay, the Larchmont's
captain.
McVay who was accused by a
passenger of cowardice for allegedly
leaving in the first and largest life-
boat, and ignoring "piteous pleas for
help" from women passengers - was
among 19 initial survivors, many
critically injured. Eventually, the
number of survivors dwindled to
nine.
According to newspaper accounts
of the disaster, the 252-foot Larch-
mont, built in 1885 at Bath, Maine,
left the South Water Street dock in
Providence at 7 p.m. and stopped at
Point Judith, R.I., at 9:30 p.m.
Many passengers had stayed up
until 10 p.m. to hear a Salvation
Army concert before turning in to
their bunks.
McVay was in bed when he heard
the danger warning of sharp short
whistle blasts. The Larchmont's pilot,
George Wyman of Taunton, Mass.,
and Quartermaster James E. Staples
of North Brooksville, Maine, were
signaling to the Harry Knowlton to
get out of the way.
"I sprang from my cot and dress-
ed hurriedly," McVay said.
McVay said later that the Harry
Knowlton did not hold its course and
suddenly veered down upon the
Larchmont. Frank T. Haley, the
Harry Knowlton's captain, said he
assumed the Larchmont would give
him the right of way, to which he
claimed he was entitled.
At the last moment, the men in
the Larchmont's pilot house tried to
steer the Larchmont away and avoid
a collision. They failed. When the
Harry Knowlton crashed into the
Larchmont, the Larchmont's main
steam pipe broke. An unknown num-
ber of passengers were killed by
steam.
Conn
p23
Passenger Harris Feldman of
Providence, who had been a sailor on
the Black Sea, said people were
panic-stricken.
Even before he and his wife left
their cabin, Feldman said, "I pulled
myself together and decided that
only those who kept cool heads would
have much chance of getting out of
the trouble alive."
Amid the screams and wild confu-
sion, the Feldmans managed to get
into a lifeboat together. Others were
not so lucky. Sadie Golub, 19, of New
York, said she saw a woman with a
little boy in her arms pleading to be
taken into a lifeboat.
"She was thrust aside. 'My baby,'
she cried. 'If we must die, we will die
together.' She snuggled the babe to
her breast and then with a shriek she
jumped overboard with the child in
her arms. It was awful."
Before winding up with the Feld-
mans, Golub begged to be saved by
men in a lifeboat who refused to help
her. "I was nearly crazy with the
terror of it all," she said.
In the water, another passenger,
Oliver Janvier, 21, of Providence
used a rope tackle to haul in two
men who grabbed the side of Janvi-
er's lifeboat, but Janvier said when
he asked the men to help a woman in
the water who was crying, "For
God's sake, save me," they ignored
her. Janvier said the men froze to
death in the lifeboat.
McVay had seven men in his boat:
a deckhand, two waiters, two fire-
men, the purser and the chief quar-
termaster. He said he was unable to
circle the Larchmont looking for
survivors, and did not see anyone in
the water to pick up.
"It was inky dark and you could
not see your hand in front of you," he
said.
Two steamers bound from Fall
River, Mass., to New York City pass-
ed by in the night, but no one on the
ships the Kennebec and the Provi-
heard the shouts of the
people in the lifeboats.
dence
One by one, the passengers in the
lifeboats suffering from hypothermia
lost consciousness and died. It was at
least seven hours before any lifeboats
reached Block Island.
Frank Hiergesell, a 16-year-old
runaway who was returning home to
Brooklyn, was the sole survivor in
another lifeboat that caught on the
sandbar at Sandy Point. Hiergesell
swam to shore and stumbled to the
lighthouse where keeper E.P. Little-
field heard him screaming at the
door.
The collision had occurred Mon-
day night and by Wednesday morn-
ing, 48 bodies had washed up on
Block Island's beaches. Many bodies
were caked in ice and floated only
because they had life preservers. A
wrecking company searched the area
but found no substantial debris.
The final report was not written
by Quartermaster James E. Staples
until 1950. It contained the toll: 332
dead, nine survivors.