Show A Chinese Steamer Sinks with all ail al on or onBoard 1 Board A dispatch received from Hong Kong long states that the steamer ha has 5 arrived at that port port brin bringing Intelligence a of ot the tho loss of ot the steamer ol off oi point point The reports that the t the shaft shaf of ot the was broken supposedly sup sup- I. I at the point where it emerges from Iron a athe the hull hul It I allowed the water vater to rus rush ii into the shaft shat alley aley and make its it way t to 0 the engine room thence into the fire fre room I. I The steamers steamer's fires fres were soon extinguish extinguished 1 ed and she settled rapidly The water wate r continued to poor In and in a short time tim e the vessel foundered The steamer was employed in trading g locally In the China seas seas- and she had o on a board a very largo large number of ot Chinese pas pat I- I sen ers She sank so rapidly that it we was 5 impossible to launch her hor boats boat even ha had fi fishe she had enough to carry all hands o on a board When she went down dow she carried carrie a with her 41 people every everyone one of who whom a awas was drowned The Tho steamer was om officered d by Europeans and her crew also consisted a of ot sailors firemen fremen etc etc from different it European countries They stood to their Lr posts to the last and did everything possible I- I ble blo to save their vesseL All of ot them vessel Al wet went it down do with wIh the tho steamer |