The San Francisco call., 1897-08-22

people the deck had either been
that the real horrors OF the COM
nenced and we could do nothing Those Chinese who had
decks the suffer the most
and among that the LOSE oil lie was the
by the fumes OF OPIUM o
up flames had reached them They started
for the upper deck proceed account OF
their Then they rsheo IN
fell another in their wild elor's 10
reach safety enacted in that Inferno WI"
be known.
some tried to get out porthoes but happened
thew we're TOO small Diners crowded and fought
like tigers for place drawn, and 1t
of the strongest getting his head out through the
portfolio and screaming with
'The position such that could do moth
ing They just OF reach and could
nothing been able TO reach them for the
only to poke his head
To drag his body Though would have been absolutely
possible The flames kept growing hotter that
distance.
things happened would as if those who
killed by stronger themselves the best off, for
hey agony of being slowly burned
managed hold places the portfolios lit
orally internal regions For long
me they screamed in The most agonzng manner and then
grew silent Death had to their relief We could
their hanging portfolios then fall
water the rest OF the body having been burned away VI all
the horrible that that night this the worst
although could do nothing for the poor wretches
stopped trying Our captain gave orders when he saw
the things going to try and sink the ship he had
would extnguish the fire and
give OF the people before sank.
But although fred several shots into her hull made
impression her and OF the
trouble was we put places
but had to fire inst above line,
Had there been slight rolling could
thing toward filing ship with water although what the
outcome would have been nobody say.
"Wben there living being left the America
we nnea o and watched her burn. This she did
long when morning came number of Launches
arrived on the and towed her TO place the beach
near Kanagawa until after putting several
the work
"Itseems to me now fate lad Amer
lea should be entirely destroyed day for the
sooner touched ground than typhoon along The
launches barely reach places OF safety before
height This struck the weak hull of
it all to pieces IN very few minutes There
was absolutely nothing left OF it and what might have
of literally forced into the sand that
never recovered Nothing saved from this vessel
the of the managed
way When the storm was over there
make decent sized fire paror
of loss of life
the America all of figures from GO 500 know
knowledge that the latter good deal the
truth Why people drowned when
ladders broke when the he got well along there
pokng portfolio nothing OF who
were burned to inside Add to this
were murdered something awful
fire tie decks crowded With Chinese
and of them saved believe there
show just how these people
on board hut opinion there
of Engishmen and Americans lost also that in
my opinion OF life at the burning the America
a 450 or 5oo
"The loss in money something like
other Then the Ameca had
the finest placed ship 1t
worth least million and consisted principally
silks and ces Add to this the cost of the vessel and the
vauabe and the estimate is high that
considered the burning Of this vessel is sufey
the great catasrophes of history.
'The way the photograph of 1t taken from the
The who took it and splendid
1t showed the vessel rather small though
that small picture that have looks exactly
looked about and haf alter the caught fire,
and her did not change much before midnight