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MORE THAN 250 LIVES BELIEVED LÖST.
stated, all perished, with the ox- coption of two of the crew.
The cargo, so far as is known, consisted of a quantity of live- stock, made up of 29 Head of cattle, about 200 pigs, over a hun- dred crates of eggs and a small quantity of fish. In addition, it Is known that the vessel carried over $10,000 in silver. Presum ONLY TWO MEN SAVED.ably, none of these items is cover.
ed by insurance,
Over 250 lives were lost when the .. Lee Cheung, a locally- owner Chinese boat, went down during a north-easterly gale on Saturday night off Fuklen Point.
A vessel of 162, tona net, she has become a total wreck, and it would appear also that of the whole number of persons on board, only two liave survived. As re- ported yesterday there had been much anxiety when the Lee Cheung did not reach Hongkong during the week-end,
The vessel left Sanmei, in the ordinary course of events, on ber return to Hongkong. On the trip back, she called at a number of Intermediate points, and her movements up to the time she left Shamankwan, were duly recorded. The sa. Cheung On reported pass ing the ill-fated vessel on the way up from Ping Hoi, while at the latter port the agents stated that she effected a clearance at 2 p. and proceeded on her way to Shamunkwan.
Survivor's Story,
Dressed in borrowed' clothing, the two 'survivora' Chung Yan and Leung Kwan were surrounded by a large crowd" of people in the ofices of the Fook Hol Co. the whole of yesterday afternoon. answering the many questions put to them by anxious relatives of the crew,
"My husband's name is Lum He in one of the sailors on the Lee Cheung. Do you know what woman, who, by the way she al has happened to him?" naked one lowed her hair to fall losely over her back according to the Chinese seem very optimistic. custom in Umer of grief, did not
that we had no time to do any
"The steamer aank so quickly thing. It was everybody for him. self. I did not see your husband, I am sorry," was the 'reply.
Chùng You, Interviewed, said, "The mei at 9 a.m. on Saturday morn- Lee Cheung left Sun- Ing. The sea was rough and a strong wind was blowing when wo left but the conditions were no- thing compared to those we en- Dusk had fallen when the Lee countered later. We arrived at Cheung, arrived at Shamunkwan Summun nt 5.45 p.m. the same day at G o'clock the same evening. To and after discharging our cargo reach the spot when disaster be we left again for Hongkong at 8 fell her, off Fuklen Point, the pin. After we had been an hour steamer would have to steam more under way, the sea breamo than two hours in the open sea. rougher and the steamer was bad Conditions approximating a galely buffetted about." set in, and with the north-enet monsoon blowing hard, the vessel found herself in diflculties.
this weather found the vessel and "Another hour of steaming in
the crew in porry state. Tho It is stated by the owners that ship had taken a list to port by the ship was top-heavy, but what this time and, all the puskengers ever might be the reason, It is were ordered down below. Thera evident from the accounts brought were nearly 200 passengers on back by the survivors, that she board including many children. was in no condition to meet the whose screams could be heard at gale of the fores that was then times above the rour of the waves. raging. High seus broke over her decks, the pumps were unable to tried one thing after another "The skipper was desperate and cope with the hillow, and within without success rémarkably short space of Lime, dered all the cargo to be thrown At first he or we are told, the ship became com- overboard. There were pletely waterlogged. She listed heads of cattle and about 200 over to port with the directionira on the ship, but we knew if of the wind, and turned turtle. In was uselest trying to throw less than 25 minutes, the ship eattle overboard, and we did not thisappeared from sight, leaving | dy. no trace to indicate the spot where she wank.
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"He then manoeuvred Lie vessel's head against the wind by putting the heint hard nport, but it was too late then. A heavy gust of wind and a mountainous wave almost turned the vessel over and she,sank before the crew could lower the lifebouls: Some buoys but others were not so for people managed to obtain liy
tunate.
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Heavy Loss of "Life, As to what happened to the two hundred or ma
passengers and grew who were on board, it could be believed that they had very little time or opportunity, under Die circumstances, to save them selves. The necounts brought back by the two solitary sarvi vors, touched on the distressing
A Lucky Man. scenes which ensued when the inevitable had to be faced. There "I was among the latter con- was a laudable effort on the part linded Chung Yau with a grima 2. of Captain and crew to launch the "The next thing I knew.was to bonts. A few rafts did eventually find myself in the water. I was float out, but it was a case of very lucky. A raft was floating every man for himself, and those near me and I immediately grab- who were not trapped when the bed hold of it. Barely a dozen ship turned
over, did not fare persons were in the water when I much better in the open ser. They looked round, among them being speak of over 25 people being Leung So, the skipper. He joined seen at one time struggling in theme and we both clung on to the water.
raft. We drifted along. through- out the night and at about 4 a.m
,
Captain Leung So and a seaman, succeeded in getting on one of the
could see that Leung So was in rafts, so also did another sea- rears were realised a few minutes a very bad condition. My worst man, and they are all who known to have escaped from the and go under. Left alone, I was ard later when I saw him lose his holi wreck. The first-named however on the point of giving up hope suecambed to cold and exposure, when I saw a fishing junk sailing. leaving his companion to be plek- ed the following morning, at 7 o'clock by a passing fishing junk.
The other seaman was also res
in direction: The occupants survivors as they had already were on the look-out for other
cued by a junk. Both had drifted picked up Leung Kwan an hour many miles before succour and it was not long before they' before. at the south of Waglan.
rived.
espléd, me, and took me on board- Upon their return to the Colony and treated me von kindly, givn. yesterday morning, the two HPA-me food and clothes," men reported the disaster at the
One of the crowd of people, fires of the owners, the Fook Hoi, of No. 67, Connaught Road turned to the master of the fish- Central. The Wing Lee, a fairing to the tale and asked, "Would ing junk who was present listen- sized launch, was immediately chartered to go out to look for the you have taken Leung So on board wreckage. I returned later in you had found him even if he the day, reporting that those was dend?" aboard had not discovered an signs of the ill-fated vessel. It had completely gone under, leav in not so much as a plank float Iny, to quote the words of the manager of the Company,
"Yes," he said.
"According to a Chinese saying that would bring you bad luck. Aren't you superstitious?" he was again, asked.
"No. I am a Christian," he answered simply.
Particulars supplied to our re- resentative are to the effect that the Lee. Cheung was formerly the Over 250 Missing, Cheun Chow, and had been in the possession of the Fook Hol soma The skipper, was connected with ten years, not very long after her the vessel for two years, was 55 Jaunching from a local Chinese years old and leaves a wife and shipyard. It was only recently daughter in Yaumati The chief that she had been overhauled and officer was named. Shek Gan. Bu0 reconditioned, at an expenditure. years.old, and was connected with so the Company.states, of $20,000 the Fook Hof Shipping Company for She was then valued at $50,000. over ten years. The, chief eng and the important fact for the ineer, named Fung Woo, was 40. Company is that she was not years old. The whole crew consist- covered by insurance.
ed of 44 Chinese, and it is stated The ship's complement, stated there may have been fully 200 by the vernacular papers that to. be.30, thcluded. four anti-piracy. Indian guards and members of the passengery on, hoard. compradore department. It is not "A police report last night con- known how many pankangera were | firms that there, werd altowether on board," but taking the average 262 persons (passengern and crew): number carried by the ship, on on the ship of whom only two are these trips, there must be about a known to have been saved, Palice hundred taken aboard from the launches are still cruising in the various points of embarkation. As "vicinity":
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