Show TIM I donara 1 1 liml nearly two if ed pour pool WiT wretches met wath death SAN FRANCISCO am adur 12 further iiii ol 01 t lie burning 0 steamer don juan off tile tho chinese coast wore received hero here to today dav T tho spanish don J bian jian ian hong hon tiong kong for mania fiffia with a lull crow crew an I 1 all tho chinese oita could bo b stowed avay 1 ay thirty ennios ol oft Dare gayes gaves fili najt wye re di bovero I 1 between decks it soon sp oad cad to 1000 caso cago of and all hope of saving tho the ship was ab abandoned 1 I 11 to lite life boats wore were dest destroyed roved by the flames and the others were capsized lv bv tho the chine chinese e tile the sharks mado short work of fhe 41 I 1 t and 1111 in this manner tho alio second engineer quartermaster steward and second officers ceis lost their liv am s on tho the firo fire bein being ta d sered most of tile the chinesa i nn in up tip tho the rig ing and of tier high places As tho the fite iner increased eased ini ty tho poor watches dropped on deck and into hito the fire anro others jumped and beio d ly w ho readied one of the bo boats boals als filled it to an ox ex 0 Cs and the s sharks hadis leaped leape d into tho the air to snatch tho their ir prey the panic was fow jal tile the oh i reso peso huddled together 0 and filled tho air with their moans tho the foro and after parts of the burning vessel were full of people imploring assir assistance tance and tho central portion of tho the vessel wa lilie like a crater of a volcano tho the sharks camo came in droves and hundreds of them could bo be seen around tho the steamer A fire fireman nian succeeded succeed od in reaching 0 ono of thu tho overturned boats and right righting b hig za tier her I ito he to then wont went to the others and managed to got get two more of thorn them on an even keel they were all kept hopt at a di distance stanco and everybody who alio wanted to got get into ino them it biad ad to roii the gauntlet oc the shirks it in this way ninety eight persons escaped and reached the shore after sixteen hours of hard bard rowing they at one 0 tole telegraphed 0 graphed for assistance and the steamer san antonio was sent out when she rea readied clied the de delici three chinese more dead than alive were fout found id in tile the ringing rigging za 2 tho the mast anast were steel this made the total saved including 0 officers and crew there wore 1283 people on board so the sharks and flames must have devoured the don juan wab towed into manita all on firo salt lako lake tribune |