Damage Done to Sphinx and when the at," Hsingshih_ coli fod with the stern of. the." Prench fall atip Sohn, When the Tater twas. swinging 0 wharf, and four native cargo junks ak, Portnatey tore jured.
lose of lite and nobody was 'The accident, occurred at 10.40) am,, when the Sphinx, just arrived, 'Was' turning in the stream before going alongside, The Sphinx, of the messageries Maritimes line, is a big ship, and occupied most of the away in swinging. When the ship was at right' angles to the banks of the river, the small San} Peh str, Hsingshih, outward bound, thinking that there was sufficient} ween the stern of the the N.Y.K. mail wharf} he might hit the wharf, helm over, but the ship to clear the Sphinx and collided with "it, Then an anchor on the Hsingshin wae dropped and the ship checked, but not before it had folerushed these Chinese cargo junks between the ship and. the" wharf, had capsized another, The: ship. then moored alongside the" N-Y-K. mail wharf, while the Sphinx com: pleted its swinging and went along-fide its' whart a hundred yards away from the. Hsingshih, of the Hsingshih that
side of the bridge. deck: superstrucof tne bridge, dock aupertire: fuure."'This came. into contact. with the" counter of the Sphinx on the Starboard. side, and. just below the ing around'the deck at the stern of the ship.
For thirty feet the superstrucjeare on the Hsingshin was crushed fin. Three" lifeboat davita were broken, two of them subsequently hanging over the side of the ship. while the third caught on to a rail onthe Sphinx" and. was. pulled lean out, Tt remained dangling over the stern of the Sphinx when by Mr. the ships pulled clear, and was|ed the medals), Capt. Martin, Mr. immediately made fast by the Sung, and Supl. Grookdake (Hon French sailors, On the Sphinx the plates on the! counter were broken in, there being!
gash ten feet, snd several 85] inches wide in the sleeping quarters of the crew. The break was made two fect away from a sailor's which was fortunately not occu Jat the time.
The cargo junks that were hit by the Hsingshih all carried sugar, which has been lost. Two of the Jjunks carried 150 bags, another 140) fand the fourth 85, Miraculously, in this ease as well, noBody was injured or hurt,
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