Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-11-22
THE DEADLY CREESE.
IT WAS IN THE HAND OF THE MALAY
 SAILOR WHO RAN AMucK


 Made by the Wild Man In Ton Minutes.
 4 rorrible Scene Described by Sailor
 Who Was m Eyewitness.
 ''In 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 Fortunate ly I saw 1t from position of perfect safety, but the sight was enough to mako me staer clear of all Malays after ward and any vessel that has them on board, ' said I1rdix Deering, who as boy and man sailed many seas in deep water ships 1t was in 1865, when was q boy on my first voyage, on the ship Harry Warren, which sailed from Boston to India with cargo of ice We were lying at anchor in the roads off Madras, unloading our middle deck cargo into lighters, and 100 vessels of all nations were anchored about us, dis charging or taking on board their car goes. The ship nearest us, about two cable lengths away, was the British ship Mahratta, which had come from Singapore III ballast with a crew of Malay iascars. It was one day at noon that, as our crew lay round under the awning i'll the foreeastlo waiting for the order to turn to- one of the sailors sit ting on the capstan sung out:
 Hi, mates, just look over to the limo juicer They're having some kind of rumpus there Sec 'em going. I be- lieve it's ono of those Malays running amuck
 We all jumped to our feet and looked at the Mahratta, and some of us ran up into the rigging to get better view. From tho topsail yard could see all that was going on on the deck of the British ship Amidships a lascar, naked to the waist. was slashing and stabbing at 0 European officer who had tried to grapple with him, while everybody else ill sight on the ship was running fore or aft or taking to tho rigging On the quarter deck the captain was hurrying two ladies down the companionway into tho cabin, supporting in his arms one of them who had tainted. As the officer fell lifeless to the deck the Malay bounded past him, following three sail ors who had run aft, along the port gangway, upon the poop As he ran he swung before him long, slender knife, its crooked blade curyirg in and out itisea5he Writsings of Q snake. He over took the rearnost man on the poop and cut and stabbed him, as he had done with the officer, until the man fell Meantime the second man leaped over board, preferring to take his chances with the sharks and water serpents to remaining on board, and the third man ran across the quarter deck and up into tho mizzen rigging like a cat The man in the water swan for our ship and some natives in lighter picked him up ahead of tho sharks.
 The Malay left the man he had killed and looked around as if for fresh vic tims, but he himself was the only liv- ing person i'll view on the decks. He ran fore and aft, searching, but found no one, and he tried the cabin door, but it was closed fast Then he went to the mizzen rigging and started up the rat lines after tho man who had taken refuge there When the Malay had got as far as tho mizzen top, the man he was after took to tho topgallant fore and aft stay and began to go down it hand over hand toward the mainmast The Malay kept on up to the topgallant crosstrees and began to follow tho man down the stay.
 There was something frightful i'll the relentlessness of his pursuit. He had got about ten feet down the stay when the captain appeared on the poop with a revolver and began firing at him. Ono, two, three shots he fired, and the Malay kept on down the stay. He was two- thirds of the way to the foot when at tho fourth shot the arm that held the ereese fell helpless by his side, though his hand still clutched the weapon lie olung to the stay by ono hand and his feet and kept on down it almost as fast as before. A fifth and sixth shot, and at the last the Malay stopped still, then fell like a lump of putty to the deck, full 40 feet below Whether he was dead when he struck the deck do not know. but the mate, who must have UG6n WbOCh4uS 4IOIl HIS IOOIIl, Fiu out from the cabin to where the Malay was with a handspike and made sure work of the fellow before he could rise Then the lascars came running from the fore castle and down tho rigging, and with capstan bars, belaying pins and knives struck and thrust at the dead Malay un. til if he had had dozen lives in him they would have been hammered out of his body before the officers could re- strain the excited sailors.
 "Our captain got the full story of tht affair from the captain of the Mahratta the next day The Malay had been brooding and sullen for days before, though no one knew what his grievance was On this day as the men were pip ed to dinner he had gone into the fore castle, got the creese from some place where he had it concealed and had flu riously attacked his mates without word. They raised the cry Amuck, amuclzI' and scattered, but not until three of them had been killed or nor tally wounded and two more of them