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Show $ THOUGHT IT WAS THE DEVIL & Big Python Got Loose on Vessel and Created Panic in the Engine Room k which was "slum" from the beast and packed in salt soon after its -demise. Beside the asuaad, the eruns, the wombats and the pythons, were 26 monkeys and one kangaroo. All these were kept in the waist of the hold, while many horses lined up in the stalls on either side. It was as the midnight watch, from 12 till 4, was coming on that the snake broke loose, the animal men say. "I was going aft to turn in," said Charles Edwards, a horseman, "when I saw one of the 'greasers' coming tumbling up the ladder out of the engine room with his eyes hanging out on his cheeks. 'What ails you, man?' I asked. ' 'Tis the devil,' he yells; 'he's in the engine room wid a tail a mile long and a pitchfork in his mouth ! ' " Just what would happen if one met an asuaad, two eruns and a couple of wombats walking up Broadway it would be hard to tell, though a first glance rather inclines one to the belief be-lief that there would be a riot, says the New York Telegram. Several specimens of the above named animal goods arrived in this city to-day in the hold of the Atlantic transport liner Menominee, and, according ac-cording to everybody who had anything any-thing to do with them, there was a riot of no small dimensions. Weird stories of a desperate snake hunt at sea, in which a man battled single handed with a thirty-foot python, pyth-on, now deceased, and of the terrible encounter of a horseman with an orang-outang, which bit him up badly and then spent three days in the rig-ring, rig-ring, are being whispered about the hold and the engine room to-day, though on deck the officers said they knew nothing about any such occurrences. occur-rences. Whether it was the mere presence of the asiaad, the pair of eruns or the wombats that did it is not known, but at midnight on Friday last, say the cattlemen, the horsemen, the animal men and the "greasers," one of the two big pythons forming part of the Noah's Ark collection got out of his bag and crawled into the engine room, where it tried to curl its thirty feet of length around a series of hot cylinders cylin-ders and was almost baked in consequence. conse-quence. In charge of the weird bunch of animals ani-mals and things camo Donald Burns, who was known the ship over a9 "Burns, the Monkey Man," and he it was who, with the aid of the ship's flute player, it is relalted, captured the huge reptile and subdued it single-handed, single-handed, though the serpent died the next day. As testimony to the encounter, en-counter, to his prowess and to the snake's exceeding great inches, Mr. Bums has saved the snake' skin, |