The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-24
A MALAY's DEADLY CREEsE.
Five Men Killed and Two Badly
Hurt in Ten Minutes.
From the New York Sun.

Hurt in Ten Minutes.
From the New York Sun.
I'm four voyages to the East Indies.
two of them to Malay ports. I have seen
but one instance of that native perform
ance called running amuck. Fortuna tely.
1 saw it from position of perfect safety,
but the sight was enough TO make me
steer clear Of all Malays afterward, and
any vessel that has them on board" said
Erdix Deering, who, as boy and man.
sailed many seas in deep-water ships 1T
was in 1865, when l was a boy. on nv
first voyage, on the ship Harry Warren.
which sailed from Boston to India with a
cargo of ice We were lying at anchor in
the roads off Madras. unloading our mid
dle-deck cargo into lighters. and a hun
dred vessels of all nations were anchored
about US, discharging or taking on board
their cargoes. The ship nearest US. about
two cable lengths away, was the British
ship Mahratta, which had come from Sin
gapore in ballast with a crew of Malay
Lascars. 1t was one day a noon that. as
our crew lay round under the awning in
the forecastle, waiting for the order to
turn TO, one of the sailors sitting on the
capstan sung out:
Hi mates! Just look over to the
lime-juicer! They're having some kind of
a rumpus there See 'em goingl 7 he
lieve it's one of those Malays running
amuckv'
I'VE all jumped to our feet and looked
at the Mahratta, and some of us ran no
into tire rigging to get better view. From
the topsail yard l could see all that was
going on on the deck of the British shin
Amidships Lascar, naked to the waist
was slashing and stabbing at a Euronaan
officer, who had tried to grapple with
him, while everybody else in sight on the
ship was running fore or aft or taking to
the rigging. On the quarterback the can
tain was hurrying two ladies down The
companionway into the cabin. supDortino
in his arms one of them who had fai,,+
ed. As the officer fell lifeless to the decl,
the Malay bounded past him. folloUyine
three sailors who had run aft. along The
port gangWay upon the poop As he ran
he swung before him long sIendar l,,,te
its crooked blade curving in and out like
the writings OF snake. He overlook
the rearmost man on the poop. and ont
and stabbed him, as he had done nj
the officer until the man fell Meantime
the second man leaped overheard ~
ferring to take his chances with ~,
sharks ana water serpents to remaining
on board, and the third man ran ao,.15
the quarter deck and up into The mis-
rigging like cat. The man in the w..
swan for our ship, and some natives II,
lighter picked him up ahead of IA
sharks.
THE Malay left the man he had l,u,o,
and looked around as if for fresh victims. |
but he himself was the only living nerso,
in view on the decks. He ran fore ana 81
but found no one, and he tria5
the cabin door, but il was closed fast
Then he went to the mizzen rigging ari
started up the ratlines after the man WIZ
had taken refuge there. When the Malav
had got up as far as the mizzen tor ~ |
man he was after took to the topgallS,t |
fore-and-aft, and began to 20 down IL
hand over hand, toward the mainmaetP |
The Malay kept on up to the topgaIlant !