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Show ur UlitW mLLtU - IN DECK BATTLE i I: ODY FIGHT ENSUH8 AT SEA t WHEN 8KIPPER AB8COND3 r WITH MONEY 0 v 'Ivors on Board Hell Ship Loaded o iVIth Booze and Orientals For e Smuggling Tell Tales; p Chinamen Resist v n iw York. A strango otory of n I : on tho high seas, In which flvo lese, two whlto men and two oes wore slain aboard tho stoop r Beatrico, was told hero Thurs- j by ono ot tho surviving Chinese D io Mary Beatrice, a two-musted n sh "Bahama sponger," was found g S'ow York bay without captain or c ', and with fifteen Chinamen n rd. 0 io of tliem, whoso namo is with- v , mado a statement to lmmlgra- D authorities assorting that nftor u md his follow orientals had paid- p apleco to bo smuggled Into the B ed States from Cuba, tho skipper 0 onded with tho monoy, tho crow j I to hold up tho Chlnamon, and f( ensuing battle tho Chinese, whites negroos dlod. g trough an Interpreter this China- told how ho and nineteen com- p ons ombarkod at navana May 8. r v.'oro assured that thoy would r( transported rapidly to Amorlcan 9 and landed without dolay. r, io twenty Chinamen were packed , rd, together with tho skipper, two j, 0 sailors and two blacks. They n 1 Jammod In like nogro slaves on '( ld-fashlonod African slavor, and 3 hey sot sail for Now York. Tho ( is only thirty feet long and wltTi loavy human cargo It wallowed In tho waveB, Bldpplng much u ir. Conditions aboard woro ter u B addition to tho Chinamen, tho per had a cargo ot whisky, a"c Ing to tho story told immigration lals and this he sampled himself ... e |