Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1920 — 540 VILLAGERS PARTICIPANTS IN DRUNKEN ORGY [ARTICLE]

540 VILLAGERS PARTICIPANTS IN DRUNKEN ORGY

London, Feb. 16.—Virtually the entire male populatibn of the village of LaGrana, near Ferrol, Spain, was in a state of “helpless intoxication” for.three days recently, the Ashing industry and all other work being at a complete standstill, according to a Madrid dispatch. “Owing to the stormy weather,” it says, a number of cases of spirits, laden on incoming vessels had been washed overboard. The casks were picked up by fishermen, small tradesmen and mechanics, who, after selling part of the wreckage, assembled in a building and consumed dozens of bottles of brandy, rum and other spirits. The orgy lasted for six hours, at the end of which time the whole crowd was found lying in huddled heaps about the floorlnan unconscious condition. I. “A detachment of marines was dispatched to the building and in the presence of the captain of the. port the people were shoveled like coal into six large carts and conveyed, still insensible to the naval hospital here, under escort of marines with fixed bayonets. “The value of the Itauor consumed is estimated at There are 540 patients ranging from 16 to 70 years old, in the hospital.”