Chi Chuen on the Rocks Between Ichang and Chungking Advices have reached Shanghai the that the str. Chi Chuen, on the Tehang-Chungking winter run, has gone on to the rocks.
The Chi Chuen ie owned by the Yangtze Rapid Transport "Ca., fund it is understood that Moss Gillespie & Ca. have considerable interests in the vessel. The American West China fire the local agents.
We have been informed that Capt. Tornroth, who was comm ind of the Alice Dollar during the dastardly shooting outrage of four months ago, was 1 charge of the Chi Chuen! Near-the crew of the Mei Ren on to the wreckcial report has so d by the Shanghai agents.
The str. Chi Chuen, built to the order of the Yangtze Rapid Steamship Ca.. Tne., for service the "Upper Yangtze, was launched from the shipyard of the Kiangnan Dock & Enginca® ing Works on October 30 and was designed to operate during the inter_months between Ichang and Chungking and in summer above Chungking as far as Suifu, The Chi Chuen was ordered on August 6 last and was completed and ready to begin on service by the end of November—a een of construction work.
phy, supervised the construction Hesse, Eisler, Reeves fe Mur-of the vessel to the requirements according to the American Bureau of Shipping (American Lloyd's) for this special service, and her. sub-di by athwartship bulkheads carefully considered to minimize risk of sinking as the result of contact with rocks rapids other in obstructions With further reference to the accident to the str. Chi Chuen, we are now courteously. informed by Mr. R, B. Mauchan, Superintendent of the Kiangnan Dock engineering Ca., that he has communicated by telegraph with Mr.
R. Cox, agent at Tehang for the Chi Chuen, who reports. that the steamer struck the rocks on the way to Chungking and sustained some damage—threo small holes in the bottom of the hull. Those. wore repaired, temporarily,
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