The Beitish barque Kitty owned by Messrs, Hopkins, Di port, and bound from Newehvw: with beancake, foundered about 2 Monday last d the recent typhoon some thirty miles north-east of Amoy. The master, Cnptain James Maher, a well-known "coaster, carried his wil and two children, "The crew of a foreign mate and nineteen Chinese, and of the ship's company only the boatswain and nine hands are saved. The boatswain's statement of the loss of the Kitty is that on the morning of the Sth inst. they encountered very bad weather when some eighty i from Amoy, and, expecting a typhoon, the Captain have the ship to. At the time the weather was very thick. 'A terrific sea sprung up and, the ship giving violent leelurehes, the cargo shifted, and_put the vessel in " perilous condition. Tu the evening the Captain ordered the masts to be cut away as the storm wa ing, there was no possibility of trimming the cargo, and the ship was out of com: mand, Unfortunately, when the masts went over the side, they smashed all the boats but one and tore the deck planking, so that the water began to find its way below. All Sunday the ship tumbled about terribly, and the decks were not approachable, nevertheless hopes were entertained that a coasting steamer would heave in sight, ing was seen however but " native sail or two running for shelter. At 2a.m. on Monday the action of the vessel told them that the end was near, sea after sea poured on board and each left the vessel with less freeboard. An hour afterwards the Captain advised the men to get into or stand by the life boat which was lying on the hatch, bottomless, launching her being out of the question, The captain put his wife and two children in the stern of the boat, and almost immediately afterwards the vessel gave one violent lurch and disappeared. A Cumber of the men were injured nad knock senseless by the in-rush of water. However, the tank-lined boat got away clear with the Captain, his wife and two children, and a number of the Chinese, whilst others clung to the life-lines outside. The darkness was intense, but by th occasional phosphorus-crested waves other members of the crew were seen clinging to bits of wreckage. But the boat was unmanageable, the oars had washed out of her, and before mang minutes she got broadside to the trough of the sea and turned over and over, each time dropping one or two of the occupants. Almost the first th disappear was the Cuptain's wife, and shortly afterwards the Captain himself, The Captain's children, " little boy and el, were supported by the Chinese, but about 5 a.m., were washed from their grasps, the plucky fellows being almost' too exhausted to save themselves. At break of day the weather moderated, a with it the sea, but the few survivors were helpless and in a sad plight, having been without food or water for two days, and in the boat they had neither oar nor sail. Their only hope lay in the passing of a steamer, which, about nou, was their good fortune. The H.A.D. str, Alesis, Capt. Knuth, had, owing to stress of weather, put. into Amoy and, the typhoon being past, had left that morning for Shanghai, About ncdn, some sixty miles N.E. of the port, the officer of the watch sighted the boat with seven men, including the boatswain, sitting up to their necks. in water, and within a cable length three more men were seen clinging to some pieces of wreckage, All were promptly got on board and Capt. Knuth, thinking: there night be other survivors in the vicinity, cruised round and made a thorough search Int without success. The men were brought on to Shanghai and are loud in their praise of the treatment. they received on board. 'The mate went down in the ship, refusing to leave his cabin, 'The Kitty' was iron barque of 803 tons built in Amsterdam in 1856, and has been many years on the coast of China,
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