SAVED BY A PORPOISE

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 20

SAVED BY A PORPOISE

BBOWNING. MAN PUSHED ASHORE The Miami (Florida) correspondent of tho ','New York Times " states that when the steamer "Vela was threo miles off the United States coast, on her way to Germany, two young German stowaways, Gustavo Danielzik and Wil* lielm Kierserling, jumped overboard, taking with them two lifebuoys, a gangway, and. two oars. The incident having been reported by wireless to the shore stations border patrol officers began' a watch along the twenty-five miles of coast between Fort Lauderdale and Miami. The same afternoon Kierserling was taken to Fort Lauderdale on board a motor-boat, which had foundi.him. drifting in the.sea supported by a lifebuoy. At night some fishermen passing along Danis beach, a few miles south of Port Lauderdale, saw tho nucle figure of a man sprawled in tho surf, making feeble efforts to crawl ashore. It was Danielzik. He was more dead than alive, and was taken to. a hospital, where in broken English he said: "I'could not swim. I tried for hours... The waves kept carrying me ' farther away. I could not think. I gave up. Then someone push. Ido not care. Again a push and I see. First I was scared. I think walrus. Then I know porpoise. They do not want to hurt me—just push, like lam in the way. How many of them? I do not know. Before I get there I know nothing." Old .fishermen along the lower Florida coast say that the story is entirely plausible, as. porpoises will bring in dead bodies in the same manner.