The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-11-26

THE SHIP CARRIED on THE ROCKS
In few moments the ship struel
again, bow on this time, and witt
tremendous force. The wind caugh
her under the starbOard quarter, car
Tyi1g her on the rocks aud broadsid
10. She began to pound and thuml
herself, and We all thought she W6ulI
go to pieces /; but after a short tim,
she rested quietly, listing to the star
board and making but little water, no
more th5n she would under ordinary
circumstances. Il was, or seemed t
me, the longest night we ever passes
through, and il was a welcome sigh
to each Of US when dawn first brokl
upon Us. At $50 A. NJ. got a life-rol,
ashore, and the Captain was able 4
make out the ships position she wa.
three quarters of mile below Aber
deem. The typhOOn had subsided By
this time, and the barometer was go
ing up. Shortly after, 1 went dOWI
through the wheel, aud through the
aid of sam-pan got ashore. I wa,
glad when my feet rested once again
on terra-firma. Every one was ex,
hausted, and our Captain most of all
He was untiring in his exeItions in
trying to save the ship and our lives
After getting ashore sat down on 6
rock to rest for q few moments, and
those few moments were the mosi
melancholy ones of my life. began
to realize the terrible effects of the
typhoon.
The water far out to sea was GOV.
cred with floating wrecks, and the
shore was lined with hundreds OF the
most wretched-loOking human beings
1 ever saw in my life. A few hundred
yards from where we are is quite 8
large blight. aud into it had drifted
over 300 large fishing junks, aud sam
pans almost innumsrable. Every one
was broken to pieces. Toe people that
were able to work were striving To
save their used-up property, aud those
I that were not able were trying to
drag themselves to Aberdeen. Oid
men and women ami little children
barely able to walk composed the
thrOng. One old woman, nearly 80 ]
should judge, came totterIng along
with not sufficient clothing to cover
her; {; she was covered with bruises
aHd cuts. No one took any notice OF
her. She would go few feet and fall
exhausted she managed to get to the
dock. yard.
A few minutes after passed by
and found her dead. AT go A. u.
went, at the request of the Captain,
tc Hong Kong 10 inform the COmpa-
ny's agent OF our condition. BY good
luck secured a couple of coolies and
a chair; on the way overlook q man
/ q lrnrcN raakaA ord fSra.1 ~ he
could hardly walk. | stopped q few
minutes to hear his story; 1t was sad
and short. He had b-en Captain of a
Siamese bark between II and l
O'Clock his vessel struck Green Is
land, and in less than five minutes af-
ter striking, went t. pisceS. Tue Cap
tain was the only man saved. After
being washed from the wreck, he
caught hold OF 4 piece Of floating spar.
and with some OT LlIe ropes attached,
he Iashed himself to il, aud drifting
about for nearly seven hours, was f.
Dally washed ashore y few yards be-
low the Alaska.
After rounding the point at Poke
foCIum, / came in sight of Green Is
land, and saw large vessel floating
out to sea bottom up, and another
wreck on the rocks. Shortly after, /
was in full view of Hong Kong and
the harbor, and il was y desolate
sight indeed vessels stranded on the
shore, Others broken to pieces, and
only the masts above water what
few remaining, and of the thousands
OF native boats of all kinds, not a sin
gle one was floating. Lying in front
of the Pacific Malt wharf, or where 1t
used to be, is the wreck Of q large
barge. Nearly all the wall facing the
Praya is gone two steamers are sunk
in front OF Douglas Laprake wharf
the Albay and LeanOre. The latter
| Just arrived at the commencement of
the typhOon from Manila. 1t is said
she had 200 Chinese passengers under
her matches the Captain and nearly
all the crew were lost. The Captain
was found washed ashore near to the
Queens Road-the main street. Alb
erdeen is almost entirely destroyed,
and the Wormpoa Dock COmpany's
property damaged to the amount of
500, 900. Many lives were lost here.
------~- a. .t-.H-is 80 ~na small build-
| ing / counted fourteen dead bodies,
most of them so crushed and disfig-
ured as to be beyond recognition.
Next day we waited impatiently to
hear the account of the effects of the
typhOon at Macao; and the loss OF
life is almost too awful to cOntem-
plate. While the storm was raging
the pirates took possession of the
town, set fre to it, ard destroyed over
seven hundred houses. Tney pillaged
and destroyed the better portion of the
city all the vessels, both foreign aud
native, were destroyed. The Canton
& Macao COmpany's steamer White
Cloud, bottom up, IS high and dry on
shore. 1t is computed that over
ten thousand lives were lost in
Macao alone. Four days after, the ef-
fiuvium arising from the thousands of
decOmpOsing bodies was so great that
the National Guards revoited, and re-
fused to bury any more; and the Gov
ernor, fearing That a plague would
soon follow if the bodies were not dis
posed of, ordered them to be buried.
Four thousand were cremated, first
covering them with tar, and then set
thug fire to them. The loss of life in
and around the immediate vicinity OF
Hong Kong will exceed 1000. l am
very sorry to state that a large num-
Der of Europeans were lost and the
whole number of lives lost will num-
Der over q, 900. The amount of prop
erty destroyed goes far into the mill
ions.
ATTEMPTS To PLOAT THE ALASKA.
On the 9th of September, the first
attempt to fiOst the Alaska was made
and failed. One steamer and two
tugs were employed to pull her off.
The steamer parted g Lew 14-inch
hawser. But you must understand
the first trial made was not fair one.
The Alaska will float again. The
ship is not injured, and is making no
water. Fifteen hundred tuns of dead
weight have been removed from her.
With the aid of ways, hulks to raise
her, we think she will get off during
next spring tide OF the one following
it.