A pitiful tale was told to the writer by one of the survivors on board the Japanese steamer on Monday. He had just been married and was taking his bride to his parents home this side of Nanking, His perished. Al! their furniture and wedding gifts accompanied the pai Hee beat his head as he told the star; lund the impact crushed the bow. and stem post of the Chinese vessel] below the water The latter Chinese passengers on board and the panic which ensued can better be imagined than described.
She immediately commenced to sink bow first, and the passengers crowded to the aft deck carrying: the paraphernalia wich inevitably ne companies Chinese when they travel. Panic prevailed.
Another had lost his wife and two children, and was also proceedins, to visit parents, No one semeed to know who the old woman was but that she was seen nurse 'a young baby who apparently was her grand-child, the mother was on board and both mother and chili were drowns:
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