Los Angeles herald., 1890-10-11
Loss Of the Turkish Frigate
Ertygroul.
The Particulars Just Received
From Japan.
About Five Hundred Turks Afforded
Watery Graves.
The Accident Due to a Boiler Explosion.
A Japanese Steamer Lost-Mis-
cellaneous Dispatches.
Associated Press Dispatches. |

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SAN Francisco, Oct. 10.-The steam
ship Belgic arrived this morning from
Hong Kong and Yokohama. Concern
ing the loss of the Turkish frigate Err
tourgroul, Japanese papers place the
cause of the disaster to the explosion of
her boilers, caused by an thrush of wa
ter from an opening made by the vessel
striking against rocks off Kashinosaki
light house, during gale. According
to the reports of the survivors W no were
brought to Kobe, the frigate left Yoko-
hama September IA. On the 18th a
gale sprang up, off Kishinosaki, 25O
miles from Yokohama, and heavy sea
was running. Suddenly noise was
heard and all was confusion. The men
and officers were mostly below in their
berths. Those not Immediately killed
rushed to find that what remained of
the vessel was laundering. The captain,
Ali Bey, was seen on the bridge
for a moment with lamp
in his hand, and was heard to cry out
ssSave yourselves" Then he disap-
peared, and was seen no more. The
navigation officer, Nouri' Bey, also per-
ished. The chiet engineer was almost
the first to die. He went from the cabin
to the engine room just before the ex-
plosion, and was literally blown to at
0ms. The sea was soon full of debris,
in which men fought and struggled for
their lives. Osman Pasha, the admiral,
was swimming towards the shore, when
he was, struck on the head by spar,
and sank. Out of total of six hundred
souls, only six officers and fifty-seven of
the crew reached the land. Many of
these were SO badly injured that they
were not expected to recover. The ves-
sci was an old one, and formerly used as
training vessel. The engines were of
English make, and bore date 1855.
The frigate was overhauled be-
fore she started for Japan, and
it was intended that most of the voyage
should be made under sail. In conse-
quence of her going ashore in the Suez
canal, necessitating docking her for re-
pairs, and her detention in quarantine
at YOkahoma on account of cholera
aboard, all taking some months,
change of the original plan was neces-
sary. Subscriptions were opened for
the relief of the survivors, and Japanese
and German gunboats lent all the assist
ance possible. Up to the 21st of Sep
tember, 130 corpses had been removed.
The Musashi-Mark. which foundered
during the gale of September 18th, to-
gether with Captain Frahm and fifty
men, was the latest addition to the
fleet of the Hipponyusen-Kaisha COM
pany, and was the strongest carrier on
the coast of Japan. The vessel was
built at Renfrew, December, 1889, and
cost about 100000. 1t was reported that
the sailing ship Yorinabu-Maru, belong.
ing to the same company, had been lost
in the Ku channel, and only five lives
saved out of thirty.
The subject of a treaty provision in
order to place foreigners under the ju-
risdiction of the Japanese courts, occu-
pies public attention, and the protest of
. body of three hundred foreigners,
mainly English residents, who met in
Yokahoma, September 11th, is discuss
ed at length by the press.