The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-11-29
officers and Men BaiIed With Buckets
for Many Days.
THE MACHINERY COLLAPSED.
The Electric Lighting Plant Failed TO
Work and Darkness Was Added
TO the other Horrors Of the Noy-
age Encountered Typboon
and Pitched and Tossed
Heavily.

MANILA. Nov. 27-7.85 p. M.-The trans
port Manauense. with Lieutenant-Colonel
webb-Hayes and three companies Of the
Thirt, first Infantry on board has ariiv-
Cd here.
She narrowly escaped disaster The OF
fcere and soldiers were for twelve days
bailing with buckets.
The steamer was uuseaworthy, UNDER
manned ana short of provisions.
Her engines broke down and she rolled
three days in a Uphoon
Wbeu The NIanauense anchored in Man
liza Bay this morning 80 days rom san
Francisco there were several feet OF
v,ator I'm her hold and four hundred sol
diors and sailors had been passing buck
cts of water since November 18th, night
and dav. First Assistant Engineer Dun
leavv was under arrest, and. according TO
Colonel Webb-Hayes official report the
Chief Engineer would also have been~un-
der arrest if there had been any one 10
replace him. 49,
The Colonels report also declares thdt
tho captain of the vessel told him that
the only thing which brought them
through was the fact that the men We're
green horns and failed 20 realize thelI
danger while experienced seamen would
have deserted the ship and taken 10 the
boats i'm mid-ocean.
FLIES BRITISH FLAG.
The AIanauonse is % chartered snip NY
INK the British flag. She started from
san Francisco accompanied boy the trans
port Pekn. which carried the remainder
of the regiment and encountered heaVy
seas. 90 Honolulu. without accident
After starting. it developed that She was
d.. D.. 4 %. I.U II...
tailed to- act as hremen. coal passers. and
walters. Before reaching Honolulu, the
crew concluded that the ship was not
safe and though they were close watched
many succeeded IN getting away and the
Nanauense left Honolulu with less than
half her crew.
The captain of The transport on NoVem-
Der 18th told Colonel Hayes that the ship
had sprung q leak and an investigation
resulted i'm finding several feet of water
in the hold The steam pipes were tried
but failed 10 work and there were no
hand pumps on board. However. a. buck
els were found. others We're imprOvised
and soldiers and sailors were organized
into fire shifts. and stripped ana form
ing lines, they began bailng, the officers
working with the men.
The bailing continued until the ship
anchored here.
MACHINERY COLLAPSED.
The same day the leak was discovered
the machinery collapsed and the electric
lighting plant and cvaporating, distiiinS
aud reuigerating apparatus fdl.cd 90 Work.
There were no lamps and during the last
week of the passage the Manauense was
in utter darkness at night She had been
rolling iu heavy seas all the way, but on
90 T t.f.
phoon and pitched and tossed alarmingly.
The Pekin became separated from the
Aauaucuse i'm the storm. THE water rose
rapidly and the baiing force was doubled.
The nremeu could only feed the fires
bv beins lifted 0u The shoulders of other
men through water waist deep. The ty-
phoon lasted two days and "a halt and iu
ih. midst of it the engines stopped. The
officers then held a council and found
that there wer. four hundred and twenty
persons on board with llle-bOat accOmmO-
dations for 2i5
I'm the meantime the men below. ieuo-
raut of their extreme peril were passing
buckets and singing what the hen do
We care.
ROLLED HEAVILY.
The heat was intense until the typho0n
passed and then The Pekin. which had
rctraccd her course about seventy miles,
came alongside the Mlnauen-e, which
was rolling SD heavily that the soidIo.s
I'm the hold could 20 each roll s.a the Pee
Kin through the matches overhead.
Colonel James $ Petit commander Of
fhe Mst volunteer regiment ordered tle
Manaucnse Go proceed to Guam and await
relief. but the captain of the Manau.H-e
refused to do s0. tine officers say. becaus.
tt,. ,-,,..rurlluf was renting the shin al