Interporters Blamed for. Accident Through Unlucky, Number Onboard the Dollar str. President Harrison. Somewhere in the Chusan Archipeligo, struck on a rock, with our bows up in the air and the stern nearly awash.
7 am., Nov. 6, 1926, It was nearly 1,45 a.m. this morning before the whole, of the Shanghai cricket team, en route for Hongkong, hed finally dispersed and gone to hed.
T tured one light off at about two o'clock and a few minutes later we struck. The ship jolted and swayed spasmodically for a few seconds and came to rest. Per-sondly, I heard no particular noise and my impression was that we had run on a sandbank. Other passen-Tending nolan, and. were jolted up-Thewever, heard a crash, and a
right in bed. Twas looking through the porthole almost before the jarring had stopped and saw that we were within a few hundred yards of some rocky-looking island! Stocks and I were up on deck about ten seconds after the hooter; went. It was a lovely night with sea as calm as the proverbial mill pond. For a minute or so a was quiet and not a sout to be seen, and we were first thinking of going] back to our cabin when Pat Madar called to us from porthole and said we were all to get dressed and go te our boat stations, The sight of Mansel-Smith and "Lolly" Goldman, appearing with life belts, sobered 2 down a bit, and we went below lip on a few clothes and, by the time we returned on deck, all was hurry and bustle, Half' dressed passengers struggling into life belt, Yunning Chinese sailors and ship's officers with flash-lamps, who forbade anyone to go below, are the main impressions I gathered of those! first few minutes when it was certain whether we were about to sink or not. Donald Leach appear ed with a bath towel, evidently pre~ pared for the worst.
We now noticed that the ship had distinct list to starboard and was clearly down by the stern. The flashing of a light-house on an! adjacent island revealed that we wore very close indeed to a rocky inlet—by daylight the distance was variously estimated at from 60 to 300. yards—whilst many other islands loomed up near by on our port side.
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