The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-26
FROM THE ORIENT.
The Details of a Great Marine
Disaster.
Loss Of a Man-of-War and SEVENTH.
four Lives in the Inland Sea of
Japsn-A Serious Fire.

By the arrival of the Oceanic from China
and Japan we have adyices from Hong
Kong to December and from Yokohama
to December 8.
The sinking Of the Japanese man-of-war
Chishima Kan by the British steamer
Ravenna on November 80 in the inland sea,
briefly reported by cable. is the chief item
of news. OF the Chishima's crew of ninety
only sixteen persons, Including Lieutenant
Kaburagi. acting commander of the ship.
aud Lieutenant Tsuchiyama, thirteen sea-
men and French employe were saved, the
remaining seventy-four being all drowned.
There was no loss OF life on the Rxvenna,
but she was too severely injured to render
any effective aid. Her officers had to think
first OF the safety of those under their i'm
mediate care. The time of the accident was
58 A. NJ, many hours after the setting Of
the moon. The scene was enveioped in
complete darkness, and as The Chishima is
reported TO have sunk Immediately, 1t is
probable that even though the Ravenna had
been able to lower boats Immediately Q
number Of lives would have been lost
The passengers and crew OF the Ravenna
were taken on board the Empress of Japan,
which passed the place some time after the
Chishima had gone to the bottom, and
when there was no longer any possibility
of succoriDg the crew Of the latter.
The ChlShina WAS despatch vessel OF
750 tons. 5000 horsepower and carried q
compliment OF three guns. She was built in
Francs and was to have been attached 10 tho
Saseho admiralty station On her arrival In
Janan. She was not insured. Delivery
had bsen taken of her in France and she
was brought ont at Japanese risk, being re-
garded as unit OF the navy from tho
moment of her transfer to japanese pos
session. She eess ever S70eeoo, so even
from the point OF view of pecunia rY loss ths
catastrophe hits Japan heavily. The Raven
ma Sustained serious injuries TO her bow.
Her stem was twisted TO the right and the
plates were broken and bent.
The British man-of-war Palias wens
aground on the Peseadores on November
20, but succeeded IN getting off without sus-
tanning serious damage.
I The German steamer Taiyiek has brcughs
the captain FulikD and crew of the Japan
ese bark ChiAaaya-maru to Hong-Kong.
their vessel having been totally wrecked oa
Barren Island, in the Chusan Archipelago.
while on voyage from Shanghai to
Kutchinotzu. The ship was in ballast
All her people except one apprentice were
saved. The vessel was uninsured.
News has reached Shanghai of the strand
ing outside Newchwang Of the N0rwegias
bark Aron while on voyage from that port
to the south.
A violent gale, accompanied by heavy
rainfall, visited ShiZuoka Prefecture on Sire
afternoon of November "a. Thirteen houses
were damaged at Nishikida-mura Iu tha
Kimizawa District. One female was crushed
10 death and FIVE dwellings damaged at tne
foot of Fuji.
The rinderpest is apparently spreading ia
Japan, and the authorities do net seem
energetic enough in their efforts 10 stamp
it out.
Count Ito is still confined to his house by .
the results OF his accident, and Count
Inouye, who is temporarily acting as Prime
Minister, read TO the House memoraudum
from him on the policy OF the Government
from which. however, little can be learned.
Writing TO northern contemporary, an
old resident of the interior of China says
the recent flooding of the country with mis-.
sonaries. especially the West, has seriously
alarmed the officials. partly out of proper
anxiety for the stability of the Confucism
ethics, with which their whole social system
Is bound up, but chiefly on account of their
responsibility for the safety of the foreign
ers. which it is not an easy matter to secure
in the face of ignorant mobs, goaded on by
the falsehoods of an ill-dis sp0sec, conceited
and irresponsible gentry
The first locomotive ever seen In Bangkok
was started on November on the tempo
rary siding adjacent to the the Korat Rail-
way terminus. The native population took
immense interest In the trial run over the
half mile of railway now laid.