Seamen Thrown Out of Boat When Going to Rescue A serious mishap, which nearly resulted in the drowning of three American seamen, on bourd the Dollar liner Kobe on the morning of July 10. 1 concerned were Eddie Bourgeat, Boy Johnston and Edward iewiez, Bourgeat was badly injured about the body, Johnston his arm hurt through being amght ina rope, and Stankiowiex had one ankle broken and his other leg sprained.
The President Grant was on her way from Seattle to Shanghai and the incident occurred when she about half, way between Yokoh and Kobe. No land was in sight at the time, the men were washing the deck Chinese—steerage Passenger approached a seaman named George Archie and handed him some money, papers and bunch of keys." He then went astern, ext to the plank boat, and raised' his hands as though offering a prayer. Suddenly, Avehie saw hi Jump overboard. Archie raised the iatirm "Man Overboard" and there was a rush for the lifeboats, ped uy Boat including the three fore enid of the boat went down the other romaine ime by rope, Exactly how the evident curred we have been suable Tewrn but we understand that it is the kind which is liable to any ship at any time, Two of th men were lett jammed he bout but the other thee were wu into the water from the boat Aleck, a height of abut Lwo storeys fell heavily and all received injuries.
Vortunate! the water atthe Gino was th, otherwise there might have been niore serious conse. iences. The three men succeeded Kicking off their heavy hosts id to swim around until they were cked up. Luckily, all three were col swimmers. It! x0, happened Chal in this pa spot, there are plenty of sharks bul, for some reason, none were "there tha morning. The three re. ivined within 25 yard of each other until they wore riceued, Lite belts hal been thrown down to then, but these were carried away by a trong current, ho Presi Grant at the time of the qccurronce was Ceavellinge at a speed of about 18 to 20 knots nnd she Iitd gone about w mile and halt before she could be brought to standstill and Curned round, When she returned to the spot, another lifeboat was Iowered and the men, who had been in the water for some 15 minutes taken on board.
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An amusing feature of the wax seen when the seconde who was holding a rope called up those on board to huid on. Tnstead of doing Uisy the individual charge Tet so and the second officer Iso fell into the water, Howeve) wns soon pulled out, In this connection, Ute chief storekeeper sis was knocked out, The men were given immediate edieul treatment and Stinkiewiex way later brought to Shanghai and admitted to the General Hospital. He was discharged yesterday.
The body of the Chinese wha h the water was ne mot known exactly committed suicide or whether he accidentally fell overboard. Me was known to have sone money, The general impres sion was that he committed suicide because another Chinese fellow pas senger, with whom he was on very intimate terms, died the previews evening and he was grieved and depressed as a result, Hsi-shan and General re departing to-night.
The pilot train steamed out at 10 p.m. The Ces that they will leave at generals' trains are waiting. It is
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