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Show BURLY SNPPQt QUELLS MUTINY U. S. Destroyer Force Helps Put "Hard Boiled" Leader in Irons NEW YORK, May 11. Captain John Bergstcn. a two-flsteel .skipper. Wednesday warped the shipping board steamer Eastern Ocean alongside her pier with the pithy remark that he hael completed one- of the toughest voyage In hi life romribuUnK to the toughness was la series of fights which roue to a full fledged mutiny, reejuirini? ih" assistance assist-ance of a I'nlted States destreiyer at Nuvorossy.sk before it could be quelled, according to the captain's story. Also Jotted down In the log was B collision at sea with a submerged object ob-ject that nearly spelled the ship's 'doom, and a forced landing on the Ishores of the Black sea. whence the I Eastern Ocean bad yjn,:' with 7100 Iton of wheat seed for starving Rus-isians. Rus-isians. By way of a finale, customs men tO-day tO-day found 30 bottles of rum aboard the Ship nd aslel the captain some rather pointed questions The-y completely com-pletely exonerated him after he; hael told h's story. This is the stor. The Eastern ucean put out from Philadelphia In January with .i crew recruited along the Philadelphia water i front. This crew, tho captain said, turned out lo be an old-fashioned I hard-boiled" outfit, such as seldom sails the high seas nowadays. BATTLE WITH KNIVES ; Two days out the first fight started. i ooUs and stewards staged it in a !ring made by their cronies. Tho cap-jtaln cap-jtaln overlooked it For the next three days tho battling I continued steadily. It could not be overlooked. Twice the captain, a 6ix footer weighing 30 pounds, said he h id been compelled to break into the ring and "beat up" tho combatants i On th' fifth day. two cooks staged a I knife duel, and went to the hospltaL iTwo stewards picked up the duel where the others had left off and they. I too, went to sick bay for repairs. Then I thei four sick men started to fight iLmong themselves. For seven days the fighting was halted because all hands were compelled com-pelled to fight nature The' Fant.-i a Ocean hael run Into a storm. At it? height she struck something beneath th.; waxes and shipwreck loomed Ith automatic in h:end, Captain Bergsten kept his ugly crew bailing although several times some of them tried to man boats and go over the side Fin.illv 1" days out of Phibidelphi-i Captain Bergsten beached his Bteamer near N'ovorosyssk. threw 2000 tons Of Wheal overboard and lightened the ship by loading the rest onto smaller vessels he had called to his aid OAI&S IN NAVY MEN Steaming out of Novorossj sk. how-cvr. how-cvr. tho real mutiny bogan Then th chief engineer, the captain said, de-nittnded de-nittnded salvage tor saving the ship .nd the crew backed him up. "My officers and myself fired revolvers re-volvers over the heads of th- nun several times." said the- captain, "and kept thorn at bay. In tho harbor was a United States destroyer, and I finally fi-nally asked them for help "They sent forty men and officers aboard There; was a short but vicious fight, the chief engineer was put inter irons and taken aahore and the men were sent to quarters. "It was then I learned the men had brought rum aboard. They were members mem-bers of a notorious water front gnng. and did nothing but fight We went to Constantinople to load before returning re-turning home " Captain Bergsten on docking learned that two cooks, mlnnlng when he left Constantinople. had been arr. lb thero on a charge of murdering two British soldiers. |