The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-10
RESCUED By,
HONG KONG
Eight Men Saved From
Doomed Hulk.
.D|SMASTED IN A STORM
They Had Lived on Rice and a
Little Rainwater for
Days.

tain and seven men were rescued by
the big transpacific liner about five
hundred miles from Yokohama, on the
trip to this port, from a dismasted
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 10Th of December.
She left Shanghai on the 22nd and
Nagasaki on the oath, Kobe on the 18th
land Yokohama on the first day of the
year.
On January End, in latitude 81 degrees
81 minutes North, longitude 14S degrees
Ia minutes East, the Maru sighted a
dismasted vessel flying signals of dis
tress. The vessel was right in the
course of the steamship and if it had
been in the night time there might have
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 go to the assistance of
those on board the wreck. The half
famished and thoroughly WORKOUT
crew were found in a most pitia BILE
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 a 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 were 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
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 afioat by working hard at the
pumps for many hours each of the
long days which passed from the time
the vessel had been dismasted 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 were a
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
yesterday afternoon before the de-
parture of the transport Hancock for
Manila. She arrived alongside the Pa
ciffc Mail wharf at half-past five
o'oaock. Notwithstanding this fact,
however, it was after seven o'clock
before several people who had urgent
business aboard the vessel, were al
lowed to pass up the gangway. Men
whose business was of great impor-
lance, not only to themselves, but to
the community at large, We're COM
PEELED to stand at the foot of the gang
way for an hour and half before
they were permitted to go on the YES
sci The Japanese Immigration in
spector was responsible for a good part
of the delay. He was not on hand
when the vessel locked, and it was al
most seven o'clock when he arrived at
the vessel and started to perform his
duties.
The Maru experienced variable winds
and heavy seas nearly all the way
from the Orient. Notwithstanding
this, however, she made excellent time, |
and made up all that she lost by not
starting on time. She brought 662 tons
of Oriental merchandise for Honolulu,
and carries 3,773 tons of cargo in tran |
sit. The passage from Yokohama to
was made in nine days and
two hours, which is almost record time. /
Captain w. E. Filmer is her COM
and Otis G. Freeman is her
purser,s than whom there is none more
accommodating and obliging.
Passengers for this port on the Maru
were DR.. Ten Kabe, Joseph Dowson, |
Vladimir Michenko wife and three
and Mrs. C. Shiozawa, three
children and two servants. Passengers
who are going through to San Francis
co are as follows:
James F. Bacon, Peter Bergwin, D.
]. d. Bevan, Capt. A. Campbell, c.
Fowler, Henry Conway, j. w. Miller,
Ivan Jachinovitch, Voship Prushinov-
sky, Vicente Totchka, Mitsumasa Mkt,
Yeoug Che Sam, w. S. Gray, H. Ko-
NADIA. Mrs. Robert NJ. McWade, S. j.
Kay Suensen, Lee Poy,
Mrs. Lee Choy Ying and infant, Lee
Yum Hong, Lee Bing Hong, Lee Seem.
Lee Tong Quail Chez Ii.
Great Lakes to British Ports.
CHICAGO, Dec. 29.-For the first
line in the history of the city, a ship
to sail the Atlantic was
at South Chicago today It
vas the first of four special craft
which will ply between Chicago and
liverpool and Hamburg, carrying
Western products to Europe from this
,ity and returning with foreign mer- {
handiSe. Appropriate exercises accom-