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the forecastle until the gale was over and the forecastle cleared. Witness knew no- thing more of the gale after 2 am, on the Bist. He was thrown 80 yards by a heavy sea. His legs were injured and his head
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Tam Kuey, a Chinese passenger on board the Glenlyon, stated that he came from Malacca, where he had been for 19 years. Eleven others dame with him. He had two boxes with him. He fastened them to the ring bolts on deck. The gale com- menced on the 30th. He took refuge on the top of an iron house, from thence he looked after his boxes. He went down to the two seamen who were going forward, ope baving an aãe and the other baving bie money, and some of the money got acat- tered about. The man with a large package pushed him down and got away, and wit ness could not save any of his money. He could recognise only one man and not the other. He heard that 40 men bad been washed overboard; with his own eyes be saw only 10 washed overboard; one of his 11 friends died of exhaustion on arrival at Hongkong. This was when the anchor was first cast. He took the body ashore to be buried. On the 3rd, when off Green Island, he beard that a man jumped over- board. The 10 men were washed over- board because they could not hold fast. He was not allowed below. None of the 10 men were dead before being washed overboard. He tried to get below but was prevented, He did not see any Chinese going below. There were some women and children on board. After the gale was over, he asked these women where they had been, and they replied that they paid something for getting into some place. After the gale was over he saw one dead body thrown overboard. Witness had $1,000 of his own and about $200 of others' money. Witness was accustomed to go to sea, and he did not feel sea-sick this time. Witness had been trading in boats on the coast of Sin- gapore for about ten years. When he was struggling with the seamen for his dollars, a ne came over, washing over them. He was not washed overboard because he held on to some iron. He believed there were 40 men washed overboard because it was rumoured so,
Captain Thomaett said if the rumour said 100, would he say 100?
Witness replied that the people talked amongst themselves and said there were 40 washed overboard. A Fokien man went to the agents and obtained 280 passage tickets for all the men. He was not sure that the whole 280 tickets obtained by this Fokien man with a view to profit had been disposed of. He did not know how many landed at Hongkong. Noue of his friends went below during the gale.
Edmund Frost, able seaman on board the Glenlyon, stated that he had been at sea for about 14 years. He was on board the Glenlyon on the 30th Oct. He was on deck during the whole of the gale, except an hour or so. He knew a good many Chinese were in the chart room.
He re- ceived $9 from the men in the chart room. He got it from them because he handed in their luggage which was lying outside the door. The money was handed to him, in fact he had no time to receive much more. Witness handed the money to be divided amongst the quarter masters. Witness had $7 for his share of letting the fore- castle. He could only see two Chi- nese lay dead on deck; these were the deaths he knew of. He heard an out- ory of some men having been over- board; this was from the engine room. believed these were men round the engine room door, because the door was broken. He thought the two men whose bodies he saw on deck died from their luggage knock- ing against them; one was black and blue all over his body, and one was covered with blood. He heard an order passed along the deck to put the Chinamen where they would be in safety, and to clear the deck, or something to that effect. He saw no Chi- naman jump overboard until they came into harbour.
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Wong Sai Me stated that he was a pas senger on board the Glenlyon. He had been in Singapore selling old clothes. The typhoon came on on the 30th; during the gale, at the height of it, he went on to the
place around the funnel, His boxes were left on deck tied to some iron. Witness remained on the deck-bouse till the vesBol's arrival in Hongkong. He saw three or four washed overboard. He saw one man jump overboard; he did not see any one killed du- ring the gale. He did not see any dead bodies after the gale. Those washed overboard were alive at the time. On the morning of the 31st when he came down from the deck house, he missed his box. About 3 or 4 in the morning, two seamen came and wanted to remove his box; he called out to them not to remove it, as it belonged to him. They stopped and went away. In the morning he saw seaman walking aft with two packages which he recognised as containing money, and belonging to him. The red bag contained $650, and the white bag $600. Be did not go below, for the sailors would not allow him, At the begin- ning of the gale some of the passengers couldn't hold on, and bired the room of the sailors,
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He could not say whether thera was yet room in the sailor's room to hold more, because he was not allowed to go in, and he could not see. The women hired some room from the sailors, he heard this He heard a man speaking English bargain- ing the place for them, but he did not see any money paid. He saw the seamen take the women's boxes inside, and be concluded that they had paid money. A friend of his, who bad died before reaching Green Island, paid some money, and witness saw
it.
The women gut in about 11 am. on the 30th, just before the gale com- menced but his friend paid "after the women. During the gale they could get no water. He did not see any dead bodies on deck; they might have been thrown overboard before. $600 belonged to him and $650 belonged to friends of his, who eutrasted it to him to deliver to their rela tions. The body of the man who died on the 4th after arrival was buried in Hong- kong, All his party lost their money.
The Court was then adjourned till to
i morrow the 14th, at 10 a.m.
MARINE COURT OF ENQUIRY.
8.8. **GLENETON,” The Marine Court of Enquiry was rebum. ed to-day, 14th inst., at the Marine Magis- tracy to enquire into the circumstances attending the loss of life on board the Bri- tish steamer Glenlyan during her voyage from Singapore to Hongkong. The Court was composed of the Hon. C. May (first Police Magistrate); H. G. Thomsett, Esq., R. N. (Harbour Master); Henry Lowcock, Esq., (unofficial Justice of the Peace); R. H. Cairns, Esq., (Government Marine Sur- veyor); and Seth Doane, Esq., (Master Ma- riner and Commander of the S.S. Mikado).
Sum Aloi, a Hakka, stated that he em- barked on board the steamer. at Singapore. He had been living in Batavia for seven years. He had a box with him when he went on board, which he placed on some iron structure near the place where the? stokehold was. Many men came with him from Batavia, but he knew none of them.. On the 29th October, it came on to blow, and he could not stand. He went down into the stokehold taking his box with him, and placing it outside the door. When he first went down, he did not pay anything, but about 6 p.m. two men in the engine room took hold of him, and asked him for one dollar ; witness did not pay, and they searched his purse, taking from him 18 coins similar to the one he now produced (24 guilder piecus). The o in produced was kept in his box. The men did not return him any of the coins. He remained below during the gale. Witness did not nʊs any body washed overboard, as he was below all the while. He lost nothing from his box, which contained $47.45 and clothing.
Mr Lister said he had ascertained that of the 280 tickets, 25 bad not been accounted for.
Captain Thomsett said that he could understand this; he learnt that some of the men who had taken passage in the Glenlyon would not go in her on account of her be- ing so deeply laden, but came in the Bin- dostan.
Chan Sun, a boatbuilder at Batavia, stated that he took passage in the Gleniyon from Singapore to Hongkong. He had bis
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