Mr. Sr. Jouxs, the chief officer of the ill-fated barque, soys:—On Friday night at a quarter to eight, I came on deck, the Chinaman having been at anchor for twelve hours. The Amhurst Rock bore S.W. by and the North Saddles about S.E. [am not so sure about the latter bearing as T am of the former. There was a full-rigged ship anchored astern of us about a mile and a half distant. The Saddle Light was dipping. The night cloudy, and there was no moon. came on deck, I had the vessel's light put up about four feet higher. Ten minutes after I came on deck, the Craiglands ran into us amidships just abreast of the mainmast, and her stem cut into the Chinaman as far as the Kelson. At that time the captain of the barque was on the poop with his wife. When the steamer struck us, I called out, There's alody on ard; send saline!" Two of our men climbed on to her bows. I then ran up in the main rigging and called again for a me. Some one began getting one ready. I cast our own life-boat adrift as the Chinaman was sinking, and as it floated between the mizen-mast and the rigging, I got jammed between the latter and the boat, gotting #0 badly bruised that it was half an hour before I could reach the mizen crosstree, 'The barque sank in about five fathoms of water. 'The steamer lowered life-bent containing her chief engineer, third engineer, and the two members of our crew who' had got on the steamer. The boat has not been heard of since. The Oraiglands then lowered another boat, but it had to return in a very short time because it soon got half full of water. 'The jolly-boat was then lowered; it came and fotched away four hands who were in the rigging, and returned and rescued the remaining' eight. This operation was one of considerable iioaliy, owing to the position of one of the yards, which made it impossible for the boat to approach the mainmast: all the men therefore on it had to get to the mizen. The soa was not rough, but a strong weather ebb tide was running. The amer's starboard' bow was Knooked in, thirteen of her ribs, I believe, being broken, but hor water-tight bulkhead prevented her from sinking. She cruised about all that night and part of the next morning looking for the missing boat, but could see nothing of it. She returned to Shanghai on Saturday evening. The Craiglands is in Mosars. Boyd & Co's. New Dock.
Jats Haztey, ordinary seaman, who was on deck at the time of the collision, has supplied us with the following statement saw the Craiglands about a minute before she came into us. She was on our ort beam two or three hundred yards off. was standing on a spar on deck and shouted to the Craiglands to keep off. When she struck us, f with the other members of the crew, made for the boats as well as we could, but we had not time to get the lashing off before the barque went down. I made a spring for the fore-rigging, but missed it fell on the deck, and. went down on the ship; but I grappled hold of the after swifter and hauled myself hand over hand to the surface, All the others, I think, were then in the rigging. On the fore-top-sail yard were Henry Menna, Frank Lord, Frank Carlsen, Ernest Brace, and William Bailey, all seamon, and myself. On the main-top were William Potts,. second mate, John Lamont, carpenter, Arthur Leech, ordinary seaman and John Stern, able seaman; on the mizen cross-trees were John St. Johns, chief mate, Frederick Bush, A.B., and Seraffin, the sail-maker. We could see the steamer's lights, but I cannot say how far they were away. It was blowing a pretty stiff breeze, and a strong ebb tide was running. The night was cloudy. The moon had not risen. We were all more or less wet and suffered greatly from cold, and to prevent our clothing from freezing we moved about as much as we could. To shelter themselves the men on the fore top-sail loosed the bunt of the top-sail, and triced it up with the roof points to the top-mast rigging. It then formed a kind of hammock, and the men got into it to keep themselves warm; and they remained in it until rescued. On the maintop the men also sheltered themselves as well as they could with the mizen topgallant-stay-sail, but their position was rendered more uncomfortable by the agony of the carpenter, who died from exposure to the cold. Two' or three days before the accident he was putting up a false door to the house on deck to prevent the sea from breaking the other, when the ship gave a lurch and he fell against the rail of the vessel; the door fell on him and broke tio' or three of his ribs. At the time of the collision he was in his bunk and escaped only in his sleeping clothes. He died about two hours before resene came. He was wrapped in a sail and lashed by a gasket to the mast, where he was left when his shipmates were taken off. The men on the mizen cross-trees sheltered themselves with a gaff top-sail. The sea was strong that every moment they were afraid the mast would be carried away. If it had been, of course we should all have been lost. We remained in this position for about five hours, when a boat came alongside from the Craiglands, in charge I think of the boatswain, and a Chinese crew. They came on ide, and took the men from the mizen and one from the main top. They then told the other mon on th top that they must go to th owing to the lee main yard-arm swinging about 60. To do this they had to swim from one to the other, helping themselves by means of the braces. The boat returned in about half an hour, and took the remainder of the maintop men, and then came to the foremast for the others, Before the boat came to us at all, the steamer had been mancouvring round us for a long time, and I fancy that at one time I saw alight three or four ships' lengths astern of the steamer, but men in our position, when looking anxiously for a thing, often imagine that they seo it when they do not. But if we did see the light, it would no doubt be in the boat in which Marshall, Willis, and the two engineers from the Graiglands were. I am afraid it was swamped. When we got on board the Craiylands, her men behaved very kindly to us; they could not have done more for us than they did. They gave us clothing to put on, food to eat, and coffee to drink, all of which we very highly appreciated.
The Customs cruiser Kwashing returned from the wreck of the barque Chinaman on Monday last. She took bearings of its position, which have been published as an official notification from the Customs Engineering Department. Mi Tapp, H.M.'s Registrar of Shipping, at the chief officer of the Kwashing boarded the wreck and found the body of John Lamont, the carpenter, who died feom exposure, lashed to the mast, where it was loft by the members of the crew who were saved, as already mentioned in our report. The Kwashing then cruised about in search of the missing boat containing the chief and third engineers, and the second mate of the Craigiands and two of the crew of the Chinaman, but was unable to find any trace of it, or to gather any tidings respect ing it from nine vessels they signalled in the neighbourhood. The body of the carpenter was brought up to Shanghai, and an inquest was opened in the afternoon by Mr, R. A. Mowat. A report of the Proceedings will be found in another column. Those capable of forming a judgment inclined to the opinion that the occupants of the missing boat from the steamer Oraiglands, after an unsuccessful attempt to regain their vessel, had been driven from her at the will of the elements, and that in such case their direction' would most probably have been a southerly one, creating considerable hope of their fetching up among the islands which lie well scattered in that course, but, for want of coals, the Kwashing was compelled to return to port without exploring them, It was doubtful whether the services of the Kwa-shing could be depended upon for a second cruise with this object in view, and atten tion was directed, by our indefatigable Registrar of Shipping, Mr. Tapp, to the U.S.S. Palos, and that gentleman, in connection with Lloyd's agents, waited on the U.S. Consul-General, Mr. 0, N. Denny, at an advanced hour on Monday evening. Mr. Denny expressed the utmost sympathy for the missing men, and intimated that if HM.'s Consul would lay the case before him officially he would at once communicate with Commander Qotton with a view to the despatch of the Palos. This was done, and we are glad to state that through their kind and courteous ce-operation instructions were issued to Commander Green of the Palos to proceed at daylight on Tuesday morning last to the Parker and Saddle groups of Islands to make search for the missing boat, In accordance with the foregoing arrangoments, the Palos left port at 7 o'clock on Tuesday morning for the scene of the wreck, and before she had timote get further than Woosung a telegram was received by the Harbour-master, from Gutzlaff, stating that four of the five men who left the steamer in the bent had arrived there; and, through the courtesy of the Harbour-master, we wore enabled, by means of "an extra," to convey this information tour local readers shortly after it arrived. The four men who have arrived at Gutzlaff are is and Peter Hallstrom, third cond mate of the steamer Wilts, boatswain and an apprentice of the avid Marshall and Charles
barque Chinaman, and they reported that they had buried William Burton, the chief engineer of the Craiglands, who was the fifth person the boat, on Elliot Island. Marshall and Willis, our readers will remember, were the two members of the crew of the Chinaman who saved themes by clinging to the bows of the Craiglands, and on learning that Captain and Mrs. Mackenzie had not been saved from the Chinamen, they insisted on returning to the wreck to render them assistance, and the three officers of the Craiglands volunteered to accompany them. They soon drifted from the view of the steamer, and when they could not be found on Saturday by the Craiglands, nor by the Ewashing "on Sunday, only the most sanguine entertained hopes that they were yet alive. We have yet to learn the tale of their sufferings, and doubtless it will be a most heart-rending one, judging from the fact that Mr. Burton, the chief engineer, succumbed—we presume from exposure. Mr. Burton was a quiet, unassuming nian; he was an active member of the Institute at the Temperance Hall, and was highly respected by the members of his profession. He leaves a wife and child at West Hartlepool, England, to lament his death, a solace in connection with which must ever be the knowledge that his life was n an effort of heroism to save those who were in imminent danger. The survivors of the wreck of the Chinaman lost everything they possessed. Some of them avera only partially dressed when they had to berake themselves to the riging to save their lives, and the clothes they are now wearing are the gifts of sympathizing friends, while some of those
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