The " Hongkong Daily Press" of the 23rd instant has "the following, all apparently gathered from the one Chinaman who states that he is the solo survivor of the crew. The Finsbury, it may be added, reached Kobe all right, and really disappeared between Kobe and Yokohama: 2 The loss of the s.s. Finsbury is still fresh in the minds of many people in the Fur East. All that was known about the mat for was that the vessel was lost, while, on a voyage from Hongkong to Japan, during that terrify. typhoon which raged. in the China Sea about the 20th September. We now learn that one man survived after undergoing fearful privations and hardships. That man arrived at Hongkong from Shanghai yesterday morning.
The s. Finsbury arrived here from Hamburg in September. On the voyage out, it ay some of the crew did not "hit it off" with the skipper; same of the men asked to be paid off at Hongkong. The captain paid off five Europeans and one Chinese. The Europeans having been only the vessel for five weeks or so, and having drawn an advance in Hamburg when they shipped, had not enough money coming fo, them to pay, a month's board at the Sailors' Home. Chinese were ship-Red in their, place, The "steamer Ie hongkong on the 11th September. On the morning of the Zist the vessel was badly caught in the typhoon. The wind blew with terrific force, and tremendous mountains of water washed over the vessel. vessel could stand such usage. First of all the boats were smashed up and washed out of the davits; the deck fittings were swept overboard. "The engines "could avail nothing; the vessel lay helpless, completely at the mercy of the elements. ' After some time, an, enormous volume of water, much heavier than the seas which had preceded it, came down with full force over the forward cargo hatches; they gave way and water found its way into the ship's old. The vessel was doomed, and the crew had
Ives from a watery grave. The steamer means at hand wherewith to save them-gradually filled, and, "suddenly, with a gulp, sank beneath the dark waters. Those aboard Were sucked down with the vessel, except, of course, the Chinaman who was to the fore-and-ait bridge which, when the the sole survivor. He ed to cling vessel disappeared from view, was left floating on the surface, After nine days—too Bitter, almost, to contemplate—clinging to this wreckage, ho was by the crew of a Japanese schooner which hed
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