An alarming accident occurred Thursday on the Whangpoo River. The Norwegian steamer Hakon Adelsten, Captain 0. Borgh; arrived from Nagasaki in the morning and moored at the China Ni igation Company's buoy, off the French Bund. She swung to the ebb tide and remained in that position until the tide changed between eleven and twelve o'clock. The flood tide then came in
carried her athwart the river, with her with a bore, and, sisting her on the quarter, stern towards the French Bund, when her heel apparently took the ground, and the hawser, by which she was made fast to the buoy, gave way. An anchor was immediately lowered, but the tide carried her towards the Bund. Her stern came in collision with the quarter of the steamer kind of Wenchow, which was moored alongside one of the China Navigation Company's pontoons—the third one from the Kin-lo-yuen wharf—and then the Hakon Adelsten was broadside on an unusually high and strong tioud tide, and being about 250 feet long and drawing 20 feet, the pressure against her to force her up the river can be better, imagined than described. Her stern scraped along the side of the Wenchow, carrying away the gangway ladder and davit, the awning stanchions, and the bolts over the ports; and then clearing the Wenchow she struck the next pontoon, which was a small one, and so bulged in the front that it sank, and the bridges connecting it with the other pontoons also gave away. Next to the sunken pontoon was a large iron one, which the steamer also forced from its position, and then bumped with great violence against the Kin-lee-yean Wharf, at which were moored the China Merchants' Company's river steamers Kiangching and Kiangkwan, the former being nearer the drifting steamer. The tremendous force with which the Hakon "Adelsten struck the wharf is evidenced by the damage done. The ead which she struck was considerably and two of the Jarge pontoons were placed, nearly turned round, while all the connecting bridges were rent asunder and fell into the river. She then drifted th Latter's stam ta two or three. piaes alongside the Kiangcking, smashing and forcing her stern back against the poate ant the stern of the Kianghwan, he latter vessel received the blow remark ably well, it only bulging in one or two of the planks of her bulwarke, while the Kiangching had a portion of her bulwarks knocked away entirely. The Hakon Adelsten remained alongside the Kiangching during the afternoon until the turn of the tide, when she was again moored at one of the buoys in the river.
Besides the damage already mentioned, some small native boats at the pontoons came to grief, but what number or the extent of the damage done in this respect could not be ascertained, It was generally Delieved that no lives were lost, but one native boatman had his right foot badly crushed and his left leg broken.
During the afternoon several foreigners and crowds of natives went to view the scene, and no little astonishment was expressed at the damage done.
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