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Show $17,000 Ship Is Burned to Foil Devils Aboard Seattle, Wash. To foil the devils which Japanese seafaring men were convinced brought her misfortune, t lie "death ship." Hyo Yel Maru, has been consigned to the flames. The vessel, a fishing smack, drifted on the broad Pacific 11 months while her crew of 12 Nipponese fishermen shkened, starved and died. The Kyo Yel, valued at about $17,-000, $17,-000, was secretly towed to an Isolated Iso-lated beach on Puget sound recently, her hold filled with, waste and soaked with oil, set aflix? and reduced to a mass of smoldering ashes and twisted twist-ed metal. It had been planned to ship the Hyo Yel back (o Japan and arrangements were made to place the 8.Vfoot boat on the after-deck of an American mail 1 1 nor for the return voyage, but the fisher folk of Misukl, Japan, where the ship was built, were convinced that evil spirits had taken possession of the ship and her return to Japan might bring other calamities. i |