The Pekin brought up from Ningpo on Wednesday eleven men, the survivors of the wreck of the Cheang-Hye-Teng, of Penang, which foundered during a typhoon on the 10th-instant. Among the survivors is the third engineer, a youth of 18, named Collins, who is the only one of the officers saved.
"The (hoang Hye Teng was an iron scrow steamer of 1,496 tons, gross register, and 170 horse-power, built in 1870, and owned by Mr. Khoo Soh Pek, of Penang. She had been sent to Kobe in the hope of her being sold to the Japanese, but without success, and she was accordingly sent to Moji, where she loaded a cargo of coal for Hongkong, for which port she left on the 6th instant. On the 8th very bad weather was encountered, which grew worse and worse, until, on the 10th the fires had been drowned out and there were about six feet of water in the engine room. The ship by this time had a very heavy list to starboard, and the tremendous seas that constantly broke over her poured in volumes down the after hatch, which was smash in, As the day wore of it became evident that there was no hope of saving the vessel, and one of the boats was provisioned and got ready for swinging out, but was smashed by a sea. At about half-past three in- the afternoon the master, Mr. Scott, shot: hiniself, but none of the survivors could say for what reason. The steamer foundered half an hour afterwards, and the survivors managed to climb into one -of the lifeboats, which floated off when the ship went down. 'There wete'no provisions. in the boat and only two oats, and the eleven survivors drift about: without food' or water for over four days, when they were picked up by a Ningpo junk, and taken to that port, where they. arrived at noon on Sunday. On arriving there the junk's master refused to allow them-to go ashore, and they were unable to land until 10 o'clock next morning, when they: proceeded to the British Consulate and' reported the wreck to Mr. Playfair, who sent them on-here, en route to Hongkong.
These men are believed to be the sole Survivors of the wreck, out of a: total complement of crew and passengers of 32, of whom four were Europeans.
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