Wreck of the New Era
(bold taken to Hapax rev. amplified) The Wreck of the "New Era" on the New Jersey coast, the English captain and crew abandoning 500 German Dunker immigrants off of Asbury Park, 1854 is what the world as a taurobolium would look like. Just the way they shot a line to the New Era off the coast of Asbury Park in 1854, except the sailors commandeered the life boat and saved themselves, then cut the line so no one could get off. 500 Dunkards drowned in that surf. The night was wild. The west wind was cold. Rigging and cordage made a dismal howl. The ships bell secoondied by the griefs and prayers,called out from the frozen and dying abandoned by the Yankee crew. That’s proved. We can only hear it not see it any more than we can see the millions of cows slaughtered in Chicago meatpacking plants of which Bishop Leadbeater said the sound of their cries polluted the entire stratosphere in Chicago with the great slaughter. I was looking at the stars when these moan...