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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY
THE "POWAN" DISASTER.
STRANDED AT THE GATES
OF HONGKONG.
BRITISH GALLANTRY AND
COMPOSURE.
CHINESE
SURVIVORS NARRATIVES.
9th June,
mishap not having yet been collated. It can It is a Birkenhead tragedy over again that easily be understood that within a few hours of we have to record. It is a plain statement the occurre ice of the stranding of the steamer, in of how men of China can stand by their case where, as at present, the passengers have been dispersed on board no less than duty in the face of death with perfect com.three different steamers and carried to Canton posure and without fear. Everybody in the information derivable by telegram at
tore
TUNE
was the past self to party at the scans of the night's tragedy. The remaining fifty, mine were brought Cover)jito Hongkong ban Chief Eaglaser Mr. H: Smythe, of the Hinthan, was told off to proceed on board the New Sun and report the disaster at Hongkong.
|_ part of the abập bicams submarged the pilet 1oosar, nitund those words than the ship
to be found in observed com or two of the ship angige, alost, strucktwice more. I phan realised my position
Gaming ). Britsto In one of them was a Europend officer and it The chief officer and the purser, 'rushed
Powds, who brienz is believed a few passengers. After con: down below to ascertain what damage the 'ship
the earlier hour of tant siderable persuasion the pilot altimately had sustained When they retained the parser
by stating that all the managed to get the Captain to board her told me to prepare for the worst There
the Poman had left the re which he did and thus he was fatias, The, was ibres fest of water in the hold, he stated..
SAM CHEUNG'S SUCCESS ME Darer'a Eibet of thres Ingine-room oficers and statxhibited He also masseted to mus that it so remarkable presence of mind. Wain deep in to get my coat and boots off as the vessel was Following, In the wake of the Powan on os around the rich and water Chief Engineer E. E. Rodrigues and hit inzing. I then lost sight of him on Monday night was the a.. 8am. Cheung (Capt. well away to losward, Bo comp
McGinly) second Mr. Robson, and the China took his advice I
on her journey to Canton. As soon ascus by the Asherman and he of my boots,
been carried out that the x fark*** Bremen unver wavered. When there WAY to tong off my cost, and rushed aft to the assist he became apprised of the mishap to the could and no traces of Cay var more need of their exrvices in the angina-roomance of the passengers, who, by this time, were other leamer her legraph ring dead slow the water over the entire cindince the past which had become flooded they turned the panic-stricken. The third class passengers and Capt. McCoty promptly brought in attention to pacifying the Chinese men and rushed to the tween deck, thence, to the vassal as close as it was commensurate with reported arterday, Chii zaplatens ty
was given directions Triety to do do. Baxis were lowered la less on the launch, which he did Duties
to procid to Lon Lon women who were the passengers' to 'famais buricane deck. They were in great confusion in the Chip All made, manlys eforts to Mahawbile, the ship was sinking gradually, than no time and, in charge of the officers of theence and qatil, hin, return the cell secure buoys and spars for the frightened stem first, and the water was rushing in great picking up whom they could, and did not of Tuesday morning the Kam Saundra
the ship, they began to cruise around the wreck,
stood by the wrecki, Batwean 1 And Foclock voyagers When they had served whom they volumes. The majority of the passenge abandon the work until there was practically turned to the Passion board beTEWAR could they betook themselves to the water also having gained the hurricane deck, called loudly holding to such floating wreckage was near to affoam-launch, which later turned out to be using more for them to do. That that nigh's Capt. Immes, the Company's marine super
It is flated that while the chief the Kam Saun, to come to their rescue that the rescued on board the San Cassing plated her self-imposed daty the waighed and labour of love was not spent in vain, the fact intendent. When the instant had com
· pat at hand. engineer was struggling in the water to
***When I reached the hurricane deck on her arrival at Canton was no less than chor and shortly after,3 mm, resumed her Jour gain the shore he was held by the arm and lag by a met the chief ang ip ser and the second engineer couple of Chinamen who were unable to swim doing their best to pacify the passengers, which 117 Boule, is sufficient testimony to the andour with which the tank was pur
nay to Canton, 56, As he felt his strength giving way be calle
ened
The number of survivors transferred to the on the man to let go their suicidal hold, The Kew Shun came alongside, attached a A by that means-be was unable to save us aft to the Powas, and rescued some of the
inabus from the Aam SAW RE either them or himself. Shaking himself from passengers from the then partly submerged
Ten prisongerz both to whom he dung some handy Botsam hevesial. Many of the passengers jumped over managed to keep his head above water. By board and swam to the launch, but not many, this time he was almost compítialy exhausted" I believe, were rescued by this meses. I was The framen, who had been taken on board on the point of jumping to the Kam Shus the Kam SAM, sang out that their chief was myself when shecut the fine which held her to the
linking that
vessel":
with what success wan rulated to
wis by now up to my.
19. În that numbar Is, Încluded. thasa
received from the Kam Shun. Detalle of the San Chising's rescue are agpanded
From Mr. Lum Mel, Sasg, the manager of the company owalngthe San Cheung" whokind. ly accorded our representative an interview we learn that the San Cheung left her wharf
9.2 clock on the night in question She was scheduled to leave at nine o'clock sharp, but could not owing to the quantity of cargo to be loaded. The night was dark
,woman, and;
ane of whom was a
: Fourteen of the WANAPETOS
Chipere.
All of whom ware,
The Kinshasay, not more than length off the Powan and right abreast of ha it is worthy of note that while she was at m chor. there were continual rain squalis, só benvy on to be positively, blinding at times & Car Black did not remain long on board the
pers have used the boat, but none would disconnected and far from complete. For the of the launch to look for him,'". And he did;' might be pulled down by the neck in water, and rainy, When the Saw Cheung was neat “Kinskat, After getting a change of clothes: koj to our readers, our reporters have had to rely porter by a Chiossa Aremark on after my fallure to reach the launch for Capiulmoon 'Pass, Captain McGinty, who went back to the wreck in bis own boat: in, the
have dreamt that she would have come to an untimely end in the way she did.
The Pewan embarked her complement of passengers and moved from her wharf at 9.00 p.m. last night. There was the usual bustle and something less than 200 pa sengers carefully betook themselves to sleep. About three-quarters of an hour after-
facts which are herein compiled and presented entirely upon a few of the Chinese passengers who had gone through a perilous experience and who owe their lives to the timely assistance rendered by the steamers which took the same route to Hongkong or Canton and vice veren fast night.
the after, part
of the ship Dettled down 1 waised hold of an aweing spar and at tempted to raise myself, as the water was aradantly rising higher and higher. As I salted bold of the support, a number of passangers caught hold of me--some by the hands, some by the lega➡ali praying me to save caused it to give way, and I and the others fell into the sente
was on the bridge, heard several blaste being blow Then he saw a few rockets test op. and being, certain now that something un- toward had happened the San Cheung was stopped, As quick as clockwork three of her life-boats, ware lowered. Oxptain McGinty took command of cor, Chief Officer Everett left in the hands of some of the Chinese crew. that the Fosas had met bad luck. They reach- By now it was known to the rescuing party of the scene in good time and rendered gallant services, rescuing some thirty-seven passengers from a watery grave, drug
wards, the boat made lurching sound and and the Powan a "night "boat and the weather officers, Chief Officer A. H. Brown'jumped into them.::. The increased weight on the spare had charge of the other, whilst the third was date, our correspondent staten:---" at 20 zarly
Binally grated. All the witnesses are agreed on the point that there was but a slight shock followed by another and another. By strenuous efforts on the part of the Captain and Chief Engineer the Fowan was righted and sent ahead.
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She shifted the first reef and went straight upon the second, where she lies now.
With a couple of hundred passengers aboard, who were naturally out of their wits for the moment, all was pandemonium; but that was not for long.
As usual, the British officers stood by their ports. The Chinese, coolles most of them got excited, but quieted down when they saw or believed there was no immediate danger.
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A foolish Chinaman made the Brit jump over the rall and disappeared. Whether he was rescued or not, it is impossible to tell,
Another Chinaman with his wife in bis arms jumped overboard in the excitement of the moment, but they were saved.
Owing to the fact that the day was a holiday was uppropitious, the number of passengers who embarked on the fateful voyage was extremely small-one hundred and seventy-one to be exach They worn all Chinese, and as exceptionally singular circuentance was that no European passenger travelled by her last night. The cargo carried also was of an inconsiderable quantity, Excepting for the personal belongings of the passengers the baik of the freight on the lower deck of the Pewan last night consisted of some bales of paper which had been shipped by the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Ld.
At her usual hour-9 p.m.-the Powan cust off her moorings at the Wing Lok Street wharl at the western end of the city, and steering a conrus for the Central Fairway of the harbour, then made for Capsuimoon Pass. The ship's Malay pilot, Mahomed Zan, who has been on board the Powon nine years az sacoad pllot and ten years since then as chief pilot, explained to our reporter that it takes from twenty-five to twenty seven minutes on an average to reach the Red Light boos from the wharf, but last alght it was gained about twenty minutes a circumstance which he felt wholly unsble "very curious," Zap, who was on the bridge all the time, described the night as being somewhat dark with occasional heavy rain showers, BO heavy, indeed, that the mist hung over the water like a voil and obscured everything from view.
cruising about we had the unspeakable Joy of seeing European in the
Our second and another Europe engleses, Mr. Robson hit he held it and was hauled aboard the Kam Skun in a state of great exhaustion.
A gallant rescue was made by one of the ship's the water immediately after the ship foundered, and gallantly rescued a Chinese woman, and, swimming some distance, succeeded to reach "The sight was very dark, not a star to be ing a boat Inte which be "assisted her, seen in the heavens. It was raining heavily. It might be mentioned that Mr. Brow The sea was very rough, and a strong current fully dressed at the time, thereby increasing, was running. When I rose to the surface kis difficultios, Mr. Brown, it will be of the seized hold of a piece of board, but was car- terest to learn, is the proud possessor of aried back again into the ship by the tide. Bellios medal, which he earned as chief officer There: I hung on to the railing for life and of the Wingehal.
paper death and vigorously attempted to steady my- On board the Kam Shun were the following self for foar of being carried under by the officers-
snction, as at this time the ship was breaking Mr. A. H. Brown, chief officer..
rapidly Mr. C. P. Archer, parker,
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Mr. E. E. Rodrigues, chief engineer. Mr. E. Robxon, second engineer. Mahomed Zan, Malay pilot. Mr. Gomera, tally clerk. ; Ad-fùdina watchman.
Most of the firemen ƒ and ́about half a dozen passengers. None of the crew are missing."
Of the steamers which came to the Foarte rescue were the s.a. San Cheung, as. Kwong Tung, and & Kinrkan-all outward bound to Canton. To these vessels the Kam Shun trast- ferred almost all the survivore with the excep E. M. Evans, second officer, got safely on board the Kinahan, subsequent transferring on board a steamlaunch in which they stood by the wreck.
Capt. Branch, of the s.a. Kinskem, told off"
How many persons did you pick up al- together that night?" asked our reporter.
Mr. Lum replied: 117. Out of that number about eighty were put on board the San Cheung from the steam launch Kam SMIL
-"How many of the Pordan's cLOW WOTD TOS- cued by you, and who were they?" followed
bext
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We picked up five of the crew, Two watchmen, two members of the compradore staff, and a boy," replied Mr. Lum.
"How many women were there raucted 73 "Between fourteen and fifteen."
While in this position, being bumped abou between wreckage andship, I saw the ship's ste. ward (s Chinaman) and a woman struggling in the water. Leaving my position I swam out and seized the woman by the hand, at the same time telling her not to be afraid. With the stewardi an one side and on the other we managed to reach the ship again, after, as you can imagine for yourself, a great struggle. We then helped her into one, of the ship's life basit, which was still stached to the davite. The steward and an old Chinamas followed. I hung on to the sides. We were loud crash, the boat gave way, and we got adrift again. Then part of the framework-to-bring slipped away-and this proved our saviour. We swam to a sort of a raft-pot a properly constructed raft, but apparently a platform
The rain was falling at the time and to describe and entertained the belief as belag | tlon ofthose just hamed. Capt. Black and Mr. there for about ten minutes. There was a
land was only slightly visible, and yet when the ship struck those doomed Chineso stood as one man. ". Then the ship struck the second and a
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"We remained there for nearly three quarters of an hour, balieving avery moment would be car last. Then we sighted about coming in our direction, and our happlaess was untold.
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pouring rain, While he crossed over to the Kinthen the second mate was left with tome of the crew to stand by the wreck In order to Prevent locting, if any was contemplated, pa
CANTON'S PRACTICAL SYMPATHY Writing from Canton, under last evening's: hour this morning, on learning the sad, tidings of the accident which had befallen the 2.5. Portan at Capsuimoon Pass, the Canton Fong Fin Hospital at once despatched a special steam-launch with a number of coolles to proceed to Hongkong and to cruise near the wreck for the purpose of recovering sty ́dınd bodies that they may find, flosting in the epa...?". ** A sumber of the unfortunater; who ware passengers by the sit. Posun and were rescued by the s.. San Cheung and 0.5, Kinshan were brought to Canton, on board these vastald to-day,"
WORK THE TUNG WA'S WORK,NMl get The Tung Wa hospital's launch, which had procesded at 1 p.m. yesterday to do scavenging duties, returned at 7.30 luat night. No bodies: were found. The launch set out again: at, 5.30 a.m. to-day, and was followed by another faunch " with a party of Chinese gentlemen at 4:30 6mj53. Nothing was seen, saya da
THE OFFICIALS INSPECTION. Mr. W. E. Clarke, Capt. Innes, Second Ea inner Robion and Parser Archer left for the wreck in the forenoon to-day. The official party returned" about 5 pm, and bad ng Information to communicate for pablication,
A BIGHTERERIVA *** The parties of sightseers who ventured out yesterday afternoon were not rewarded with much of "sight." |In": fact, beyond, the
the beach there was nothing of the wreck to be seen. The launches returned: about: 7.p.50, There were two police launches, a Tung Wa Hospital launch, one chartered by. the Steamboat Co., the 'Nan with Mr. Chon
Leep Chee's party, and several private launches
third time. That was, the end, and wo When the light was passed it was at once bis Chief Engineer. Mr. H. Smythe, to pro- from the Burricane deck-and remained there | left the scene of the wreck at about elever idéralict woodan : superstructuratowad bear- fear to suggest, all the details of the realised that the skin had been carried out of ceed on board the Kum Shunto Hongkong to shanting lustily for help.
her coarse. The helm was put hard aport." report: the disaster. The Kam Shun arrived stories which were narrated to our repte Alas! il was too late, and in another instant the a Hongkong shortly after midnight and news sentatives. One man with his bride caught good old 'owar ran on one of the treacherous of the stranding was promptly communicated to Mr. W. E. Clarke, secretary of the Hong hold of a lifa buoy and was drowned. His submerged rocks with which the sex, bed at newly wedded wife was saved. Another man this point is literally strewn, There was kang, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co., Ld. gallantly put a rope round his waist and after a continuous grating noise which lasted for and Captain R, 1pnet, marine superintendent The boat, which was in charge of Mr. part in the rescue of the survivors of the } This morning að leas tbauten launchas’wOU' sending two people on board the launch ovemi seconds as the stout "hull of the vessel of the Joint River Steamboat Companies? Mansey and another European, from the Sanated Powan, That she did not accomplish counted ́atar the wreck, daarin ganggTQAT
ran over the unyielding sexface of the standing The San Chung, Kwong Tang and Kimalan- which had then appeared, went down. It danger to navigation. Then the bridge tele proceeded on their voyage to Canton where? has often been said that the Chinese are not grapbed to the engine room: "Stand by #addikoy will disembark the majority of "the; "taken on board the Kinshan, thence aboard slightly delayed.' departure from Hangkopf Macao Steamboat Co. was besieged by an armazzi brave; over will those who were present at all to one man, including the native fremen, anrvivors of the wreck. the debacle suggest the same thing again. were there to comply with superior commande After the first telling, the Chinese have been soldier on the boat, mentioned. There were no calle, do shouts, simply an orderly
presence.
upon
any emergency,Hard astarboard," was the heim now put, as the pilot explained to the Press man, in order to get the ship off and gain the nearest beach on Lantas Island. The ship's head answered the balm, but only to plunge into the chasm of water below, and the bow became sugulfed in deep water variously estimated at between fiftees and eighteen fatboms, Within five minutes of the steamer's first impact with the rock her fate was doomed.
THE DROWNED,
So far as can be positively ascertained, the number of actually drowned is seven er eight. That is, we believe, the casualty Hat Capt. Black has been able to make out, although it will be seen from subsequent narratives that the Bumber is variously given at between 40 and 50s Chinese reports estimating as many as over a hundred. That these latter figures are marely guess work can easily be understood when it is stated that no information has yet been received in the Colony by wire of the number saved who have been carried on board the three steamers to Canton. That the small-
INQUIRING FRIENDS, Ay The office of the Hongkong, Canton..and..
of men and women who called in regular streams throughout the day with inquiries y as to their missing, relatives and friendi. – As -- many of the latter were landed at Cauton the glad tidings were communicated to the weeping inquirers who left the office with the grateful hops of receiving good nens later in. the day.
Mr. Lum proceeded to remark that among those who were taken ‘on board the Sai Cheung was a seven-year-old lad. This lad accompanied by his parents and his sister, were passengers on board the Powas. He was the only one of his family saved: When he was rescued he was in a very bad condition and artificial respiration, had to be resorted to
-him-round.—He was brought back in” Hongkong to-day and sent to his friends at Van-ma-dl. There were a number of others who had to receive first aid from the Captain and officers of the vessel. The San Cheung o'clock, and proceeded on her way to Canton with her cargo of survivors..........
WHAT THE "EWONG TUNG" DID. We chronicled the fact fast evening that the 45. Kwong Tung (Capt. Walker) also took
Check was brought alongside our so-called much was due to no lack of will on the part of. raft, and we were assisted, aboard. We were her officers and crew, but to the fact that her
the seam-launch A'am Shum and brought back took her to the scene of the wreck just a few to Hongkong, arriving here at about one minutes behind the Saw Cheng, which had been there to render "first aid," so to speak o'clock,
Continuing, Mr. Gomeze stated that is be Just a few minutes after 10 p.m. the Kwong lived between thirty and forty passengers Tung steamed up the Pass The Arst fedica were drowned. The majority of the people tos that anything was amiss to those on saved were taken back to Canton by the other board this steamar was the shrill whistle of The news of the disaster percolated through
ships-the San Cheung and the Efn Skan-the the Kam Bhun appealing for succour Travel crews of which did valuable work. It is Iers on board the Canton teamer peered Hongkong liortly after midnight lastnight. It
estimated, by our informant, that the ship through the darkness of the night and from was imposible to verify the story-It seemed
fanaderad ten minutes after striking the rack. the approaching · distance' came the cries preposterous that a steamer of the calibre of
of Chinese for what is the native equivalent of the Powan, under her able officers, should
"Save life!" The Kuong Túng's engines were have gone down, but the story is that the very
then slowed down and followed by the order "FIRST PÁNIC—SUBSEQUENT' COMPOSURE. iame rock on which she foundered is one
"Full speed astern. Then the vessel was As soon as the first shock was felt all on
brought to a standstill. Through the dimness of of the spasms which all Admiralty men fear.
the light a distant-flasti-as-of-a-suspended-light- The water round her it is supposed to be board realised that something had gone est figure is probably the most accurate will
"Toth June,"
was, descried. It was probably that of the fourteen and a half fathoms deep, but with Amits. The colage passengers, in belt be borne out by the fact that the police first panic which toon subsided into admir launcher-Nos. 1 and a-put out this morning
·Beyond what has appeared in the extended | steam faunch, Then traces of the wreck became A strong tide it comes within the ten to able composure, made a rush to gain this for the scans all the wreck and have reported report in the lease of the Hongkong Telegraph visible and it was correctly surmised that the fourteen feet which a boat like the Powan upper deck. Some succeeded in their attempt | no further carusliige directors of the Tong "Wet evening, relating' to the' wreck of the vessel in distress could be no other than the
a hospital chartered a launch to proceed to steamer Powan on the night of the 8th lost, Powan How the Powan went down has yet to be given to sound the ship and on the port discovered. But the grand thing to roalde it was reported that the abip bed | Mewan Island; near’where the wreck is lying be gathered to throw any light as to the cause, obeyed. Two out of the four bosts on board
already taken in about three fest of water, to do scavenging duly, in case any corpse may member is that once the order had been The inrush was so great that no pumps be found flosting. At time of, writing, the given to the crow to stand on the after deck could be found powerful enough to cope launch had not returned from her mission,
with the huge volume of water, there was not a man who moved...
The Government tender Stanley also visited After this, no man can try that a China-
apparent that the Powan's fate was beyond the wreck. In the afternoon' severa) lausch man is a failure; no man can say that he the power of mu to save, and all that reparties, both European and Chinese, were won't do his duty under difficult circum mained for the Captain to do is his trying organised and proceeded to view the stranded stances; no man can say that he is less than position was to see to the safety of the lives of vessel.
The passengers on board, Perfect discipline the heroes of the Birkenhtod.....
obtained. Those of the passengers who mani Arrangements were completed at noon to-day. It is all very well to say in smug sancto aged to gain the upper deck endeavoured to between Capt. louca and Mr. Robert Mitchall, that the Chinese are "no good," but they recurs the lifebuoys that were over the ship chief manager of the Hongkong and Whant stood by their betters, and they weat to for such emergencies. A few managed to get pos Dock Co., to despatch survey party regions that people who speak a great deal them out of the racks and feing the sainty the person he, tock with him. Mr.
be dragged under with the suction as the party in Thore Chinese who stood up in presence abip want down, which they sopposed sba White, of Kowloon Docks, and Rooibet Euto have been by the treacherous nature of the to be the bridge, tha: Chief Engineer bor The wreck fission's mud and sand bottom, ing heroes, have the laurel. And their office be feared that--some met their watery grave in. From the position, of the wrack as dosoribed 40. Enavigation, in: and out of the harbour" by Seeing that their well-intentionadmission damage and presumably the bottom platings
takes.
Bover hoard of.
of
to a man, deserve every praise for the gallan- try they displayed which their crew so heroically emulated.
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but others failed. Meanwhile orders were
It was
in answer
In the afternoon the
A SURVEY PARTY.
STORIES OF THE RESCUE.
LIST OF CASUALTIES,
Orders to lower the boats", were
CASUALTY LIke ging'
A summary of the casualty list may ba, come' piled from the foregoing report. It is aspiolo pis lows t
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Discharged at Canton (prope EPA
By the San Cheung badirudi $7.00
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-Discharged at Hongkong
By the Ram Shujaama retkaridesi · 34 bot
Total Survivorsport-200 On her fateful voyage the Powan carried 1-* *1 Crew - Borinoididim · 36 · + theoleida Passengers
in
off Capsuimoon Pais, practically nothing can promptly given and as promptly and cheerfully
*** Thus leaving insanımız sonnenga ba 27 K of the unfortunate mishap. Where nautical were swang out and they were placed in experts hesitate to offer any opinion, it would charge of the Chief Officer and the Chief unaccounted for in dead and missing. Auth be rash to print the hundred and one theories Engineer (Mr. Cordeiro), respectivaly. The fishing boars must have rescued several, the which laymen are bold enough to suggest and boatu ware rowed for some time round and Durbbar of drowned is, fortunately, reduced which they discuss with that degree of would be about the sea which was littered with wreckage. | to a minimum,”
ANTHE DIVERS' OPERATIONS, wisdom born of conceited ignorance. Gentle. It wat observed that seldom as so much. men of the marcantila marine with whom : dłörfs bean witnessed at a single wreck, huga
We mentioned yesterday that the Dock Co.'s. members of our staff have been in conversa- planks of what was supposed to be portions of tion last evening and this morning on the sub the ship's superstructure and immense bite! Taunch & took party of divers to suivis, examine and report on the wreck, The Com ect of the catastrophe one and all declared painted boards floated on the surface, pany's chief manager, Mr. R. Mitchell, amparing that "the night was crael ane, and in the on none of the wreckage was any survivor her Mr. Mitcheltopal
rain which intermittently fell not so discovered, they apparently to much as a ship's length enusid be seen ahead" rescued by the launch and the athermen's Herein, that, probably lies the principal ax: boats previously. Of the latter there were never Mrplanation of the disaster, contributed as it might al. Deserying lighter cewhat appeared
our reporter there is little hope that the Paras can be refloated. Her back is practically broken. All ber upper wood tk has been washed away. The launch Tabad not to torged at 3. p.
Be Ja A Burvivor's Narrative.
hampered by the conditions of the war the divers could not make's thorough investigation,
was by rain clouds
about jan fathoms of water, Apparently, as fár sa
has suffered vital injuries. As the but bad settled in the mid the exact extent of the dam the task of refloating if it can be done an aga could not be ascertained," "In-any-avant- will be attended with considerable almenky considering the depta of, water and the muddy bottom," "The "divers' ware' engagid on the wrack again" to-day.” Should, unfortunately,
be notch-western entrance one of extreme had boan Garren of results and there seem difficulty, sta dem THE RESCUL
ordingly was nothing more for them to do, the The various stories of the rescna effected back to the steamer. Shortly after helt per by the Law Skwe and the three river steamers even the Kuong Tung was once more under
the Sam Cheung, Kwong Tang and Klar weigh to Cantoni ever, to add that the dabing junks in the Capagimoon on the night of the Powan's lose the wreck have to be abandoned, the land accuracy of our Ami report. We have, how.
AGS THE INSURANCEAN the humanitarian work. It is worthy of the ownership of the Hongkong, Canton and mark that when Capt. Black, of the Fowan, Macao Steamboat Co., Ld, Leaving here at Ac is well know the Steamboat Coas boarded the Kinson on that fateful night her deual hour of departure, the Kinston ap large reserve for underwriting its own steamers. by Athens CM THE "ZAM BHOCH" ABBIÍTÁNCEITUA twean" to "and 11 p.m. that night. To be insured with underwriters in Londent
The last of the three river steamers to arrive at
Chins, the feet le commanded and officerad by of the master of the Xam Shun so much 10.that a story which is an often experishi Virid ons-habad the hospitable services of a fishing boat proacked the southern entrance of the pass be: It takes half the total risks the other half; Ja':
excution has already been made of the very precies it was exactly at 70.30 pm. The excellent services rendered by the steam Twig, which had arrived half an hour earlier,
ALTAG AS A TOTAL L088
NORVERY JALTAGE OPERATIONS"
too great haste'to secura their own salvation. UWASHISTANCE WANTED. What_pccarred to Capt. Black, iba comman- der of the Femax, at this stage and state assistance. Twice ware thres continuous blasts PARTICULARS OF THE WRECK -
sounded on the steamer's whistle, and it is of Hongkong at an early hour last night, and of the steamer, Happily, Asof by a representative of the Hongkong: Telegraph
The loss of the se. Poway at the very gates reported that a rocket was fired from the One of the survivors of the disaster wat teen bear out in their esesailal details the 8.5. "KINSKAN "STANDS BY..... furnishes yet another example of the dangers to these calls for assistance sho and risks attending maritime navigation con- the Tak Kis frm of steimelagach owners, this forenoon." The repilemen in question vicinity on the sight of the wreck also assisted was Lat_s.s. L'inakan, another-of-the boats in be bome partly locally and partly-in:England y ducted under the very best and mest experienced hove to. The Kam Shun had only shortly left Hr. Q: Gomers-was seen in his house, in management as the service of the Hongkong. Capsuimoga for Hongkong. Her master at Bridges Street. He was attired, in suit of Canton and Macao Bamboat Co., Ld, can once stested for the wreck, and rendered pyjamas-all be possessed-Easing lost all his claim for itself. Owning a feat of the Anen yeoman service in the rescun of ovar a hundred clothing and belongings in the wreck steamers trading the riverice waters of South passengers. Capt. Black, in loud in his praise
Gomere's account an ample number of British certificated masters we understand, he had mentioned to the Hon. who go down to the sex in shipwatts an and mates and manned by a competent ere Capt Basil, R., B..Taylor, barbour, master, That we left Hongkong at nine o'clock sharp, which, field first place to sane in their the Chinese master's berolim and undaggis There are aboard. 171-passengers, and the able manner in which the rescue work report was communicated to the Athan by the bonad, as you know, for Canton, Mr. Gomeza hunch Kam Shan, but for whose timely anival had stoppad not far from the wreck. The knowledge and local experience of the sealin the cause of humanity under dificult and ardaons duties they are daily called upon pariions, circumstances were deserving of the Ose hundred and sixty-three of thess was conducted under the directions of her former veure! They the Powar was wrecked on to perform in the interesi of hundreds of highest commendation and should receive modated in the lower dock. The remainda pily, le comparativaly very small might have Pass After proceeding: some linia distance she total loss. In that
• third class passengers, and ware accom. Chinese master, the canunity list which, hape Lantas Island within half alle or so of thousands of the travelling public annually and
nadequate recognition..
eight-travelled second class, Altogether thare - open considembly augmented; „As it happened ahead, the
were brought the melancholy narrative of
tto «. sentence; le sammad,up?the Jasi of the shippers of tens of thousands of tons of
THE OFFICERS' GALLANTRY,
WATH Bbagt "thinty, women and children, on ton great pratim cannot be bestowed upon the stop and the 'order " Let' ro anchors freight monthly. Under the circumstance,
While the slaam-launch was pursuing her board, na
and crow the
who Preparations were forthwith made to render overtook, the favourite thth for Chinese population both of Hongkong mission of mercy. the offcams stood by the ship About twenty minutes after satling the chief entered with spirit and determination to filluan assistance, posible to the vessel; le 2013 career of things ou
as many
wasiwas; physle
necessary" (number of boats for gascus tragically brought to ka abrupt facilog the tickets. We had just, jahod, and ally.
took may distress signals the kam) Skan, made for work? The boats lowered wares-One gig, the the right of Monday lamang retired to our respective quarters.
ustorp, she stranded-steamer and, was the first to No. 1 lifeboat god the No. 6 cutter. The full circles this afternoon the cost off end hang it on a page
the struggling mase and women lo' the fiset was sans out on their errand of mercy in wrock by bar owner toʻt
Cast to the Rowan by meant of charge of Mr. J. H. Davey, the chief omcer, discussed. – Following:
prod ThỖ LÀNG on 10 No sooner had MP: Davey's boats cast of the forbwith be made by: Polakieruneka jukwas, fade of the ship than Mr. Everett, chief oficer and Macao Steam
ttine di burzamiral of the 1.0. San Cheung (at one time. Erst math. Poured, WAGO AL., Abaan of the of the Powan) die lopside the Mirano, conabi (thật she | Ha informed those on-board; the latter vessal, inqu dred and Lane, He had cruised around the wreck and that any
therefore, the loss of the old Powas favourite
and Canton cannot but be regarded as one of sod did' all they could by personal persuasion.ofcar, the purser and myself wast round, col. A MESTRALOmdat Attractad by many and the first meniara was to launch ployment on the Canton Rivar
ed to the deck for some fresh,, sooner reached the deck thing. and the ship shiyared from sta
"A strange sensation - passed
those mishaps of the sea which the marlilms to galetes the evident assiety of the Chinese records of the world have dufortunately, to passengers The native crew, it la our pleasant escord almost every day fout of the three doty to record, never occe attempted to aban
oddon their stations until their European officers hundred and sixty-five of the year! .
An official narrative cannot, of course, be told them to quit and each one to try best to save obtained of the disaster tintil the Marine Court himself. This letter order was not given until all of inquiry is bald. The officers have of nocas hope for the ship'onfety had been abandoned. nity toobserva perfect reticence in the meantime. True to the traditions of his profession Capt. there and then it can h Inquifies at the ones of the Company with the Black refused to leave his sinking ship. At words. Rajin mombies of the man, who are invariably most one time it looked as if his too stern sense of happened courts dickedBlaformation as to gennisi datyould bare bout his Brey for lo spits of tarika parper
**Michiáte, zimmon knowledge to every his entoured pilot's reliurated
the details congerning the› uefántuasie, stood by his post to the very end: As the
the Son Cheung'a bosts and bean Instrumental in.