Show HOODOO SHIPS SHIP'S CREW HAS HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE EXPERt ENCE Trim Prim Little Craft Reaches San Francisco With Strange Story By Ernest J. J Hopkins Telegram Staff Correspondent SA SAN FRANCISCO May lay 15 Herc's Here's Heres one ship shin that shipped a n hoodoo never know what makes a ship get gel et morose moros But Its It's an ac acknowledged acknowledged ac- ac cd fact CRet among seafaring men that once in a while a ship does doe so soto soto soto to speak get et possessed of or a devil do She may be bo tho the trimmest craft afloat with the thA cleverest captain and staunchest crew And then then then- then suddenly suddenly things will wJ begin to go o wron wrong Sailing through some black nl night ht or orlon lon long gray day maybe the vessels vessel's mood will experience a sea IHa chan change Prom From a n p peace ace ce loving 10 craft sho she will become a manslayer a brute without conscience or logic a logic a Why shrug their shoulders ders The They dont don't know Nobody knows a That's the stor story of or the swift little schooner Z mpa mpa ampa of oC tho the Gulf Mall Mail fleet Cleet which was latel lately r towed into San Francisco In foundering condition rigging blown awa spars splintered crew lying half dead from and and decks bespattered with human blood Sa Say tho owners as fine fino a little ves vessel el as IS ever weighed anchor And she sho Is or Is-or or was waa until something sot got Into her hel FIRES BREAK OUT It nil all began on the trip out from Cram San Francisco Fires sprang up In Inthe Inthe the hold When hen tho rho frantic cre crew ht had successfully doused loused the tho blaze the dreaded Influenza pla plague broke out and for days hardly a man on tho the ship could stand CI erect elect The They could not sail the schooner which drifted from Crom her course then the provisions ran ou out and and the they reached Samoa In a starving condition Here Captain Lindquist was charged with brutality b by members of or the crew lie He was dismissed and Captain William Ferem succeeded him Ferem had to get somo some of oC his crew out of or Jail men being scarce One night in tho the cuddy lying e ex exhausted exhausted ex- ex hausted and snatching a few Cew minutes' minutes troubled sleep Captain Ferem dreamed that the cool cook had entered tho the cudd cuddy stealthily and was creeping up to 1111 kill him as he slept Ho lIe awoke with witha a cry en There Just Inside th the companionway companion companion- way a crouched the Japanese cook The captain leaped up Matsuo swung a stran strange e weapon weapon weapon-a a heavy y potato masher Captain Ferem dashed this from Cram his hand and the Japanese drew a knife and slashed arms hip and chest cheat A tU tug found Cound th the Zampa drifting her deel decks s awash She was towed into port How lIo do you ou explain the hoodoo Seafaring men only shrug their shoulders |