is Jepan Advertiser" reports that the British Hakodate correspondent of the steamer Manauense whose troubles have filled the newspapers on both sides of the Pacific Ocean for the past four years has at last gone to her end in the tierce sale that swept over Northern Japan the past few days. The Manauense, which arrived here a month avo after an exciting trip from the north during which she ran short of coal, and had to burn un all her woodwork to enable her to reach port, after heine thoroughly repaired here last,' month, took on a cargo of sulphur for San Francisco, After loading the cargo the Yossel left here on the night of the 14th before starting on her tri across for Mororan. where she ug ra rhe she intended coaling Pacific. The vessel arrived off Dai early on the morning of the 15th, there being a fresh breeze from the north-west with snow squalls, and while attempting to enter the harbour the vessel tonk the round off Yerumu Saki. The second office at once dispatched to Mororwn for assistance while every effort was made to got no vessel off.
'A number of coolies were sent to the vessel by the Coal Company and a quantity of cargo was taken from forward and put aft to raise the bow of the vessel. The work was kept up until nine p.m. wud at one time it was hoped to get the vessel afloat. but shortly alter the hold began to fill with water, the weight of which eventually broke down the after bulkhead and flooded the engine-room, the engineers barely having time to save their lives. The fires were. put out and the vessel fell over on her port side the stern going down in deep water. At the same time it' began to blow from the south-east and Captain Connauton yras forced to abandon the ship. By noon on the 16th it was blowing a fierce gule from the south-west with a tremendous sea, which swept over the doomed vessel and in a fow hours the deck houses, companions, funnel, poop and in fact everything above the main deck was washed ashore. morning, of the 17th it was seen from ash that a part of the stern had been away and the cargo and also the which were in the after part of the vessel strewed the beach for miles.
All "hope of saving the vessel was then abandoned and the crew, with the exception of Captain Connauton and Chief Oftcer S. Kenney, came on to Hakodate. Captai Connauton remains in Mororan in the hopes of being able to save some of the wreckage. The crew, many of whom are ovtirely destitute, are being cared for by the British Vice-Consul.
The Manauense was a steamer aver 1.600 s tons und formerly belonged to the Cross line of Liverpool. In 1898 she was bought by an "Ser of Liverpool people Hho brought her out round Cape Horn to Victoria and for a time she was envaced Alaska: owners however in carrying passengers to the gold fields in could not agree and after a lot of litigation Was sold to Robert Ward end Co.s Vieto who rum her one trip to. Vladivostuck. return she was again sold, ind. charta On ber i by her new owners to the for a transport and adventures with' a. 1 iment of soldiers on oat et her board bound to Manila would fill buck. On her return sh changed hands, Ww: ashore ai the coast of Alaska and tore her forward plates out for a distance of sixty feet. She was brought to Seattle and re-Paired and for a time things went well until July this year when the vessel was caught in the ice off East Cape and for a time all hope of saving her was given up. After being in the ice for ten days she managed to get clear and on her return to Seattle was put under the British flag by her new owners, tue British Columbia Steamship Company. who spent over $30,000 gold repairing her, and she then left on this her last voyage. The cargo was insured in the Tokio Kaijo Insurance Company for Yen 35,000 while the vessel herself had only $25,000 gold insurance. Captain Connauton except what he had on at the time the clit Jost all his personal effects, saving nothing abandoned and many of the crew an pices fared the same' way—" Nagasaki
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