New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-14
PARTED ON STEAMSHIP;
TWO JUMPED INTO SEA
Story of Drowning at Singapore
Brought Here by the English
freighter lndraveiIl.
GIRL WAS CLAD AS A MAN
Ordered to Leave the Vessel She
Leaped Overheard, Followed
by Stoker, and Both
Were Drowned.

The big British freighter lndraveih
came in yesterday from the Far East
with a stoke hole romance Yhlch the
skipper declares is about on par WIFI
Shakespeare's dramatic story OF Romeo
and Juliet. Like all the tragic thrillers
Of stage and novel, it began happHS
and ended sadly, causing no END OF
trouble among the Indravellrs crew.
John T. Tickle, chief engineer OF the
Sreighter. who felt that he was parity
responsible for the unhappy finish OK
the romance of Singapore, recalled IL
from beginning TO end yesterday as he
puffed at big black pipe while SITTING
near the forward hatch. His story had
10 do with the engagement OF yang
| Goon-Goon and Mohammed Ali, OF sing
apore.
Some time in January Of this year
Yang Coon Coon. an eighteen-year-old
girl fell IN love with Mohammed ALI
water carrier They planned to get
married. but he who was 70 be head OF
the household had not enough money TO
make the venture, nor was his job suffi-
GENTLY lucrative TO provide food and shell
ter for two. He told his sweetheart ehat
he would make a voyage on big steam
ship. stoke the furnace, save his money
and come back with more than enough
10 provide a home.
While all this planning was going on
the Indraveli was taking on cargo IN
South Brooklyn. but the two in slnga-
more knew nothing IF IT, Yang Coon
Coon and her man Mohammed did not
know that they would meet deatr to
gether on the deck Of the white man
steamship.
Fate took the rreighter n Singapore
in March. and il was fate, according 70
Tickle. that brought about dissenslon
among the crew when the vessel reached
Singa pore.
There was dissatisfaction among the
stekers. and Captain Pitcher decided 20
ship new gang When II became
known that the Indravelli wanted stok-
Ars Mohammed Ali went 70 the front
and asked for a job He got It, IS do
thirty others. on the dsy before the
freizhter started for Colombo the new
men were sent below. and on this day
Mr.. Tickle discovered the romance
While the Lascars we're az work upon
the coal Tickle CHANGED n pc looking
over his engines and there, on the graf
ing he found TWO Lascars IN fond en-
brace. Both we're weeping and their
ycbs attracted his attention. Instantly
he broke their embrace and ordered
them 70 the deck
The smaller of the two rushed below
and tried 70 Jump into an open furnace
but the chief engineer and an oiler who
happened 70 be i'm the stokehole pulled
the frantic Lascar away In doing so
the Iascar's shirt was torn, disclosing
beautiful bare arm. which the chief rec
ognized az once 70 he that Of woman.
The stoker who attempted suicide was
Yanz Coon Coon. the eighteen -year-old
sweetheart OF Mohammed Ali
She confessed that she had disguised
herself az man that she might not be
separated from her sweetheart. She was
then ordered 90 leave the ship.
As she was about 70 go ashore she
leaned over the rail and sank Moham-
med Ali Jumped in after her, but neither
came 70 the surface.
Thereafter the crew hrooded over the
tragedy. and several times we're on the
verge Of mutlnN.