The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-01-11
Eight Men Saved From
Doomed Hulk.
DISMAST(O IN A STORM
They Had LIVED on Rec and a
Little R,rw,ter fUr
Days.

There is a shipwrecked crew aboard
the Hongkong Maru. which arrived
yesterday from the Orient The cap
tain and seven men were rescued by
the big transpac.flc liner about five
hundred miles from Yokohama, on the
trip to this port. from dsmasted
vessel flying signals of distress
If the Maru had sailed from Japan
on time the possibilities are that those
on the distressed vessel would have
persisted; it was the best of fortune for
those aboard the wreck that the ocean
steamship was late by day or two IN
leaving Yokohama, otherwise they
would never have lived to tell the tale
of their suffering at sea with almost
nothing to eat and in imminent danger
of going down with a derelict hulk.
The Hongkong Maru sailed from
Hongkong on the 18th of December.
She left Shanghai on the 22nd and
Nagasaki on the 24th, Kobe on the 26th
and Yokohama on the first day of the
year
! on January End, in latitude "a degrees
81 minutes North, longitude AS degrees
IA minutes East. the Maru sighted a
dismasted vessel flying signals of dis
IftSS. ! ne Nt5Stl NdS IlSul III Ine
course of the steamship and II it had
been in the night time there might h2ve
been a serious collision between the
great passenger steamer and the drift
ing hulk.
Shortly after the vessel was sighted
the steamer slowed down and boats
were lowered to so to the assistance of
those on board the wreck The half
60,
crew were found in a most pitiable
condition. They had had nothing to
eat for days except a little rice and all
they had had to drink was what water
they had been able to catch in sail
which they spread out on deck to well
come every drop of rain which might
fall.
The captain of the vessel and seven
men in the crew We're rescued and TAX
en- aboard the Maru, where they re-
ceived all that they needed in the way
of food and medical attention.
These men are now aboard the Maru
and will be sent back to Japan on
the next vessel leaving for the Orient.
The captains name is Y. Adsuma,
and he gives the name of his vessel
as the Seisho Maru. The Seisho Maru
belongs to Hakayama Ken. She sailed
from Uragami, loaded with timber and
charcoal, on December 18th, of last year.
bound for Toxic, but was blown out
to sea and dismasted in a fierce storm
on December 18th.
The vessel was in a very leaky con-
dition, and it was all that the captain
and his seven men could do to keep
her afoat by working hard at the
pumps for many hours each of the
long days which passed from the time
the vessel had been dsmasted to the
time she was sighted by the Hongkong
Maru.
The little Japanese were very natu-
rally overjoyed at the timely appear
ance of the Hongkong Maru and well
they knew that if the steamer had not
come along they would probably not
have held out much longer on their
disabled vessel.
The shipwrecked people We're
source of great interest to all on board
the Maru, and they had to tell the
story of their experiences over many
times before the steamer arrived at
this port.
The Hongkong Maru was sighted
afternoon before the de-
parture of the transport Hancock for
Manila. She arrived alongside the Pa
citlc Mail wharf at half-past five
o'clock. Notwithstanding this fact
however, ii was after seven o'clock
before several people who had urgent
business aboard the vessel, were al
owed to pass UP the gangway. Men |
whose business was of great impor-
ance, not only to themselves, but to
he community at large We're COM
)elled to stand at the foot of the gang
way for an hour and a half before
hey were permitted to go on the veS-
hn m mi OF n I
pector was responsible for a good part
# the delay. He was not on hand
When the vessel locked, and 1t was al
most seven o'clock when he arrived at
he vessel and started to perform his
luties.
The Maru experienced variable winds
nd heavy seas nearly all the way
rom the Orient. Notwithstanding
his, however, she made excellent time,
nd made up all that she lost by not
tarting on time. She brought 662 tons
t Oriental merchandise for Honolulu,
nd carries 3,773 tons of cargo in tran
1t. The passage from Yokohama to
honolulu was made in nine days and
wo hours, which is almost record time.
'aptain w, Il. Filmer is her COM
handler and Otis G, Freeman is her
urser, than whom there is none more
accommodating and obliging,
Passengers for this port on the Maru
Iere DR.. Ten kabe, Joseph Dowson,
'ladimir Michenko, wife and three
hildren, and Mrs. c, ShioEaHa, three
hildren and two servants, Passengers
mo are going through TO San Francis
o are as follows:
James f. Bacon, Peter Bergwin, ID,
ID. Bevan, Capt. A. Campbell. C.
'owler, Henry Conway, j. w. Miller.
van Jachinoviteh, Voship Prushinov-
ky. Vicente Totchka, Mitsumasa Mkt,
'eOIE ChO Sam w = Grny II Kn-
lad9. Mrs. Robert NJ, McWade, S. j.
'ishIguchi Kay Suensen Lee Poy,
IRIS, Lee Choy Wing and infant. Lee
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