Line 0.0.0 CREW OF MADMEN

Line 0.0.1 DEMENTED DUTCHMEN KILL COM-

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Line 0.0.3 From Grimsby comes amazing reports

Line 0.0.4 of the entire crew of the Dutch fishing

Line 0.0.5 lugger Noordzee going mad and of a ter

Line 0.0.6 rible fight, which resulted, it is believed,

Line 0.0.7 in three men being killed. The Nor

Line 0.0.8 wegian steamer Jonas Reid, outward

Line 0.0.9 bound from the Tyne, sighted a sailing

Line 0.0.10 vessel, apparently derelict about 130 miles

Line 0.0.11 from the English coast. The steamer bore

Line 0.0.12 down to the lugger, and it was seen that

Line 0.0.13 there were men on the deck signalling

Line 0.0.14 for help. Approaching nearer. it was

Line 0.0.15 seen that the craft was almost a wreck.

Line 0.0.16 All her canvas, spars, deck fittings, and

Line 0.0.17 hatches were missing, and aft there were

Line 0.0.18 pools of blood on the deck.

Line 0.0.19 As far as could be gathered, some mem

Line 0.0.20 bers of the crew had become demented.

Line 0.0.21 They had attacked the others on board;

Line 0.0.22 and there had been a general fight, in

Line 0.0.23 which three men were killed. One had

Line 0.0.24 had his head almost severed with a chop

Line 0.0.25 per, and another had been mutilated with

Line 0.0.26 a sheath knife.

Line 0.0.27 The Norwegian streamer took the vessel

Line 0.0.28 in tow, and later communicated with a

Line 0.0.29 naval craft. The Dutchmen remaining

Line 0.0.30 on the lugger were put in irons, and the

Line 0.0.31 vessel brought to anchor off the Humber.

Line 0.0.32 The 10 surviving members of the crow

Line 0.0.33 included two boys, whose loss of reason is

Line 0.0.34 believed to be due to the horrible scenes

Line 0.0.35 they witnessed.

Line 0.0.36 The local Netherlands Consul states

Line 0.0.37 that, in all probability the affair was the

Line 0.0.38 outcome of religious dementia, and this

Line 0.0.39 view is supported by the police. lndeed

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Line 0.0.41 from the few intelligible remarks uttered

Line 0.0.42 by the men sufficient has been gleaned to

Line 0.0.43 indicate that the madness arose through

Line 0.0.44 belief that the vessel was full of devils.

Line 0.0.45 There is no actual proof at present that

Line 0.0.46 three of the crew were butchered and

Line 0.0.47 their bodies thrown into the sea, except

Line 0.0.48 that the survivors declare that they killed

Line 0.0.49 the supposed victims as they were man-