Survivors Also Picked Up by the Colorado and Hsinf ung: Vivid Stories and Heroic Episodes The beautiful 1.-C.S. Lienshing coming from Weihaiwei was wrecked at 4 a.m, on Sunday on Amherst Rocks, on her way to Shanghai and cank an hour later, nothing of her being now visible but the top of the masts and funnel.
Fortunately the Shanghai Licensed Pilots' schooner Lingkong was near and later on the str. Colorado and the C.M.S. Hsinfung came along and picked up the survivors.
All foreign passengers and the officers were saved, but a lifeboat upset and a number of Chinese were drowned.
Many gallant deeds are recorded and the devotion shown by many Chinese servants to their employers was most marked.
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