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THE WRECK OF THE "NILE,"
STATEMENTS BY CAPT. POWELL
courtesy shown by all on board in the the Japanese steamer putting in at Kobe hour of danger, Captain Powell was also to land the passengers As she was nob very gratified with the conduct of the supposed to call here this was not the officers aus men under him.THEAT least of the many kindnesses which hor. Well-known Kobe residents Bishop Captain had bestowed on those in distress, Foss and his family, and Dr. Ascherson,
THE VALUE OF WIRELESS.
It is somewhat trite to say that this
· AND PASSENGERS. The Japan Chronicle of the 13th Janu ury reporte:With the arrival in Kobe were welcomed on the Hatoba, about yesterday of the passengers and crew of noon yesterday, the welcome being all the the P. & Oreteamer Wife, full particulars warmer because of the danger they had incident affords another illustration of were obtainable regarding the wreck of just passed through almost within sight the value of wireless telegraphy. Of The new P. & O. course, the boats could easily have made that steamer in the Inland Sea As of their destination. mentioned in our yesterday's issue, the stoxumor Nife left htoji about 10 o'clock any of the small islands that cluster Vile, a steamer of 6,702 tons, and one of on Sunday night in heavy rain and thick round in the vicinity of the wreck, but the new class of the P. & O. Com darkness, Captain King being pilot. On to have done so would have added greatly pany, struck a rock off Iwaijima, in the such a night, of course, everybody turned to the discomforts of their unhappy Inland sca, early on Monday morning in early, in hopes of waking up to enjoy experience. It was extremely fortunate and foundered. Those on board left the part at least of the Inland Sea passage that the passenger list was a small one, steamer in boats and were picked up by in better weather. the Japanese collier Fukuyu muru, which
Captain Powell, in command, had not It had boon a full ship as far as Singa brought them on to Kobe
long gone to his room, and was writing pore, but there and at Hongkong and Captain H. Powell, the master of the letter the Second Officer relieving him Shanghai the greater number had left hör, Nile, courteously gave a Chronicle repre on the bridge, when, at about 2.45 a.m., only seventeen coming on to Japan. The soutative yesterday some particulars of the passengers were awakened by a sudden Vile had discharged a great deal of cargo the accident. The Vile left Moji, where shock and crash, with the sensation as well as passengers at the China ports, she had taken on coal, at 10 o'clock on of complete stoppage. Such a shock could but she had taken on a couple of thousand Sunday night. It was then raining hard have but one meaning oven for the most tons of coal at Moji. Neither a passenger the nor any member of the crow suffered any and the sea was wild. Captain D. A. Ginexperienced, but hardly had King was the pilot on board. All went suddenly awakened passengers realised bodily injury in the affair, which was well until 2.32 on Monday morning, when that something had happened, when they very fortunate, but none left the ship the vessel struck the southern extremity heard the still more fearsome grinding with very much more in the way of belong of Iwaijima, a small island on the north and ripping of the ship sliding off the ings than an imperfect suit of clothes. side of the Inland Sea, and the first of rock she had struck. Almost immediately Two of Bishop and Mrs. Foss' little girls the numerous islands which are passed the stowards and stewardesso came along landed with Japanese kimonos by way on the way up from Shimonoseki after to inform the passengers that the ship had of cover-coats, and one of them stocking- the wide open stretch of water known as struck a rock. They began to dress with less. One little alloriation makes the lat the Suvo Nada has been crossed. out waiting for orders, and while they of several of the passengers more easily Through the gloom and vašu the island were doing so word was brought them to to be borne with philosophy. In con- could be seen rising up on the port side be as quick as they conveniently could be sideration of the risks run during the to a height of 130 feet, The engines were and to come on dock. In these circum- present state of war, with one or two at once stopped but the steamer was evi dently so firmly fixed on the rocka that it stances they dressed none too completely, hostile cruisers still at large among the was impossible to move her off without most of them simply getting into the Seven Seas, baggage had been insured great risk. The forward hold was at once warmest things at hand. A few caught against all risks much more generally than sounded, and found to be filling somewhat up a handbag or a rug as they left their is usual. We understand that among the rapidly with water. Captain Powell cabins. The ladies just put shawls over various things lying at the bottom of the thereupon decided that it was necessary their heads, nore of them staying to put Inland Sea are a hundred pounds worth
of books that Dr. Ascherson to order all the passengers to take to the on a hat. boats
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It was one of the ironies of fate that the The crew promptly took up their ret was still raining hard when they out for the Kobe Club was bringin reached the dock, where the crew were all stations and all the boats were swung at their atations, but fortunately it ship should be wrecked at the very end of out On account of the high ges which slackened soon, and the passengers did not the voyage when, to all appearance, all was running, no little akili was required get very badly drenched. For some time danger, whether of war or tempest, was to bring the boats round to the gangway it seemed to those waiting much longer over. Passengers spoke of the great care which had been lowered, but happily no than it really was nothing could be done, taken on all occasions by Captain Powell. sort of accident occurred. The women though the wireless operator was busy The seventeen passengers on the Nile and children were put into the first boat, sending out his signals of distress. First were as follows:-Bishop Foss, Mrs. Foss which was in charge of the Second Officer Mr. Burge. The male passengora took to pick them up was the naval station, anu and 4 children, Miss Hall, Miss Topson, their places in the second host, under the word was sent back that help would be Dr. Ascherson, and Mr. Tyrell, all for Third Officer, Mr. Bates. The third boat sent from Kure, But Kure was sixty Kobe; Mr. and Mrs. Carey and child, took off the Purser, stewards, and others miles from the rocky islet of Uwajima Mr. and Mrs Koch, and Mr. and Mrs. of the European crew, and was in charge (close to Iwaijima), where the ship struck, Connolly for Yokohama. of Mr. Grimsditch, the Fourth Oficer and there was no time to be lost. The ship The fourth boat contained the engineers was visibly settling, and though the water and fireren, and was under the orders had not invaded the saloons or other living of Mr. Vincent, the Third Engineer. The quarters, it was not considered safe for native, crew... The Captain, the Chief bursting bulkhead might at any monent Officer (Mr. F. B. Murray), the Chiof have drowned anybody who ventured. The of mail from Hongkong to Japan is known Engineer (Mr. H. U. Sharp), and the boats were therefore lowered, and the to have been lost; whether the contents. Pilot, together with six members of the passangers put off. A message meanwhile were ordinary letters or parcels, however, orow remained on board until the third had been received from the Fukuyu Maru, is not yet known. ⠀⠀⠀ bost returned for them from the Fakuya collier, bound from Moji to Osaka, to maru,kaj tak
The Nile also carried a doctor, wireless operator, 4 Ohcers, Engineers, 13 Stewards, 2 Stewardesses, 10 Crew (Euro- pean), and 107 native crew.
We learn that most of the mail on board
fifth boat also took off members of the anybody to descend to rescue baggage. At the Nile was landed at Móji, but one bag
From the moment the steamer struck say that she was coming up, and the first wireless calls were sent out calling for beat that left the lile was met by a boat from the Japanese steamer. Learning assistance, the well-known 8.0.8 being that the P. & O. ship had sufficient of her used, but there was no response until
THE SULTAN, OF EGYPT'S
CAREER.
Tho new Sultan of Egypt, Princo Hussein, who was born on Liovember 20th, 1863, was the second and favourite son of Ismail Pasha. He studied in Egypt and proceeded in 1867, to complete his appearance of anxiety. The lascars education, to Paris, where he was the behaved splendidly, standing patiently at guest of Napoleon III., and became the their stations awaiting orders, and not intimate companion of the Prince eren attempting a dash below to save their Imperial. Returning to Egypt in 1969, scanty belongings. The whole business of he acted as Chamberlain to the Empress transferring the ship's company to the Engenic at the opening of the Suez Canal, other steamer was performed as methodi Being charged with a mission to Vittor cally and calmly as though it were a part Emmanuel, he visited Florence, and of the ordinary day's programme. One thence journeyed to Paris, where he of the last incidents on board was the remained until just before the siege. Indian firemen (who, like the rest, were losing all their things) coming up to condole with the Captain on the loss of his ship: q
o'clock, when the Kuro Station answered own boats, the Fukuyu's boat put back that destroyers were being sent to her and helped the passengers on board their aid. Rockets were also sent up continu-own skip. From the time the ship struck ally, while coloured lights were flared there had been not only no panic, but the from the ship's dock. Happily these least trace of confusion and not even any brilliant signals word scen by the collier Fukuyamaru, owned by Mr. Kodera, of Kobe, and she at once stood by to render assistance. The Fukuyu-maru kept about a mile away from the wreck, but dispatched a boat to offer aid. The Nile, however, had sufficient hoats to take off everybody, and these at once made for the Fukuyu-maru, except one, which remained in the vicinity of the wreck in case it should be required before the third beat returned from the collier to take off the Captain and others still on board,
The third boat. returned from the Fukuyu-mari in time to resens the ton persons still on board the Nile, the Cap- tain being the last to leave. By this time the liner was settling down by the head, and the water was already up to the bridge. Those in the boat had to pull very hard in order to go away from the vortex caused by the final disappearance of the steamer beneath the waves.. At twenty minutes past four the Nile began to slip off the ledge of rock on which she had rested and to sink doeper and deeper The Captain of the Fukuyu said he by the head. In a few minutes she was would stand by and see the last of the towering almost perpendicularly out of unfortunate ile. What with the heavy the water, the storn being far above tho rain and clouds the Inland Sea lights had in the boats-almost as high, it seemed, been quite obscured, and, in waters so full as the lofty pinnacle of rock on which of cross currents, navigation was extremely they had been wrecked. One électric
On his return to Egypt he entered public life, starting as Inspector-General of Upper and Lower Egpt, and holding successively all portfolios, beginning with far, that of the Wak? in 1873 and ending with Arriving on board the Fakuys far, that of Finance in 1876. Every Admini the refugees were treated as well as they stration during the period of his control possibly could be. There was not much showed signs of his activity Consider English spoken on board, but there were able progress was made in education, and "old Japan hands" among the passengers during his tenure of the office of public who could talk the language as well as works many useful works were con they could their own. The Captain and structed, including the Ismailia. Canal officers gave them all they had, installing running from Cairo to Ismailis. His them in their own cabins, and then simply tenure was marked by Ismail's greatest effaced themselves...
conquests in the Sudan, and an energetic attempt to reorganize the Army. It is noteworthy that at the time the staff consisted of American oficers orel Stone.
under Con
SHANGHAI TRADE.
On the abdication of Ismail Pesha in 1879 he accompanied his father to Naples, masthead light was still burning, but this difficult. In spite of the utmost care, the where be resided for three years, and was grew dimmer as the vessel sank down ship had got about a mile from her course, subsequently permitted to return to Hussein greatly interested himself deeper Suddenly, with a terrific roar, and had run on to the reef which cul- Egypt after the Arabi affair. thee took her final plunge into the minutes just to the south-south-west of throughout his career in agricultural water and by hall-past four there was not Uwajima in two rocks projecting some matters, the welfare of the fellaheen, and The WASH forty feet from the water he had the Cooperative movement. He frequent a trace of her to be seen.
The boat containing the offers now immediately after striking, the Aile had ly visited the capitals of Europe to study pulled for the Fukuyu-maru, and they slipped off and was settling in about local conditions His solicitude and were soon on board her. Meanwhile the twenty fathoms The watchers had not activities earned for him the title of boat which had been ordered to stand by long to wait, In a manner reminiscent Father of the Fellah." the Nile for emergencies had drifted so of the oft told story of the Titanic, she far away owing to the strong current heaved up her stern, and, with a crashing which was running that she had quite and rending in her interior which blent disappeared in the fog. Fortunately, she into a sound like a prolonged groan, she was in good hands, and about half an slid into the silence of the deep water. hour afterwards every one of the 163 The ahip upended within two or three Messrs. Ilbert & Co.'s Piece Goods- persons rescued was safe on board the minutes of the Captain, Pilot, and First Market Report says: — Ge collier, s
Oficer leaving in the last boat, and in Business continues upon much the same Everything possible was done for the about twenty minutes was distressed passengers, and crew on the submerged. minutes was completely lines as last week, fair demand for
some of the classes of fancy goods and. Fukuyn-maru Naturally the accom
There was nothing for it now but to prints which are not easy of replacement, modation was scanty, but the best parts cons on to Kebe; but first the Captain of and although some desire upon the part of the ship were given up to the women and children, while the others were made tho Fukayu Maru headed for Mitsuno of interior centres to purchase plain as comfortable as possible,
hama in order to telegraph from there. staples is evinced, buyers and sellers have Captain Powell, in describing his experiences to Ho had learnt from the Nile's people that not so far found a common ground of our representative, was warm in his she had been in communication with Kure. agreement as to prices. Szechuer praise of the Fukuyu-maru's Captain and had simply gone on calling. It was exchange is down to 1,120 Szechnen taels and her crew, who could not have been obvious that, however promptly the naval for 1,000 taels Shanghai Sycee, which more kind or generous in their treatment station sent out destroyers to assist, they level than has been ruling for many getting down towards a more reasonable
of the shipwrecked
The could not arrive in time to see any trace months past had should encourage trade Fukuyu-maru,
which was bound for of the lost ship, and, the news having for that outlet a further reduction in Osaka, put in at Kobe specially to land meanwhile been sent out from Kure that the rate is, however, expected soon, and the Nile party, roaching here a little the Wife had been calling up help but had pending its realisation, buyers may hold before noon yesterdayer 2.
stopped doing so and was giving no fur off for the time beings
company.
TASSENGERS' STORIES."
ther sign of being still above water, might For the first time for many months past Dr. Ascherson, of Kobe, who returned cause great anxiety. Bo the news was the weekly figures of Silver stocks in. from a short holiday in England as a telegraphed from Mitsunohama, and the Shanghai show almost go increase over passenger on the Nile; sted by a Chronicle Captain proceeded to scour the town for that of the previous week. The colocant representative, had nothing to add to the foreign food for his guests. The resources accumulation now reaches about 78 Captain's narrative, except to say that of this little port were of the spantiest, million taels, or over 8 millions sterling he wished to pay a tribute to the excellent however; but some fruit, biscuits, and less than half of which amount was con- manner in which the work of disembarka meat were obtained. To add to the sidered, in times when business was wron tion was conducted. There was absolute trouble, the Fukuyu Maru was, by some far larger lines than it is now, amply ly no panic on the Nile when she struck accident, temporarily without a cook, so sufficient for Bhunghar's trade purposes the roots, the passengers being reassured the Wile cook was allowed to have hir own If the present half in the monetary stream by the calm demeanour of the officers and way in the galley, and so the shipwrecked from this country means that the tide is crew. We understand that Dr. Ascherson were fed. About three hours were spent at last full, any indication that it is and his fellow-pamengers have signed a in these telegraphing and shopping opera- going to set countrywards again would testimonial expressing their appreciation tions, and then the voyage was resumed, soon bring a better demand in ite tralu, of the greab efficiency, courage, and