Show LOSS OF THE JAPA N thel li ar tic ulars of the 1 mail steamer japan coin 0 to us na by mill mail from froia new york the vessel was waa destroyed by fire on Thur slay night tho the dinst forty miles of and aal t waive twelve 16 aro L n the iho chinsee coast at the timi 0 ol 01 f the tha disaster the vessel wa 0 on her fr regular regi ilir voyage from sn sam F aka to hong hong vid via yoko sho sailed irom from san francisco november lith with a mixed crow crew composed of cl americans americana ind and S eight ibin cibin c passengers and in the sto st orage ot of whom were vero chinese alie ho tons of freight of treasure and tho the united S ies mails for japan and eastern aeb i yokohama was hichel io idely december logli after a ran of twenty jive fie days aloro m tho the pacific raci fic afta till usual delay at t this port whore where civo of the cabin pa passengers ss eagers landed find a portion of tho the breight was w discharged the iho japan act out tor for hodg kong six BIZ daye nil bail to the southwest at the tha time of the dasas ter the baesel had pir pass oi 01 1 town ISO mile north ot of her d the abo fire cr wit vai I 1 first about eleven pm shil tr hoara were spent in a fruitless endeavor to extinguish the flames the captiva then decided do cilea to 8 ban I 1 JOB tho LLO ind and at one oo 00 od finny morning a the p tad and crew were to the boats they remained ab about ant the need that day when all caa to tho the living freight was embarked in twelve boide ulia nuil it ib not noi probable pro biblo that noy any lives were lost dispatches from giong n 4 kong hong ft the ibo arrival of the capla ia id d euort djoa of the laseen gers and crew at tint port the others ard ore yot toba to be beard irom tho canso of the fire is not yot jot made known gewo ot of the was wai first carried to tang hong r bons eons long beau by an opo opa boat with willi a crow crew ot of seven cooling and one amor acau which performed tho the distance dial in n rii oiz hours it would have been quite impossible ble for the b boat 0 at to mako lako the he trip in so 0 o short abort a time if tile conditions hail had not been favorable the tha japan waft wa ono ODO ot of five wooden side bido wh wheal 1 I 6 each of awo sia tons tona built by the cacide mail steamship earn corn piny io to 1867 at is a cost of neatly noa r ly six million dollars aitho at abo time lime of lor her destruction however tho she wai not worth over some placing her value maluo jt at a quarter of a million m elliod she wits was insured la in english I 1 in ia rold gold this company hm has been in in active operation over twenty seven beven yeam but bat it its reputation has hai been so 0 af footed of lato into by the tha lares of accidents ocol donla which have be allen its ila vos sela the lie first loss losa wag waa in when tho the san sa 1 foundered at sea eca from overloading overl oling 1 lu tile tho golden city was wrecked but all the iho lives treasure and baggage abas was saved in id 1662 1862 tho the golden nito gato was waa burned vili croby peri ona polls perished hod after another lapse of six fix years the hermann wrecked by which disaster die istar japanese solli boldi lira ra lost their lives litos going down in unbroken file on dook deck A lw few years oga gl tho the Di onville Villo a chartered trod vessel was burned buro eil bad and a jambar ot of lives tot lost in 1872 tho the america amends wis was burned barned at anchor in tho the harbor or of yokohama Yoko hami and tho the tamo same year tho the sacramento was wrecked wrack ed but bat AU all lives treasure tr casare and baggage were wen saved the following year yea the ariel was wrecked and early in ia tho the codr tho the belief was wai lost loat by rubbing on beof on the or of jula last the bo now new iron ethamer et oamer city of Gnat nIa 1500 tons w waa as also lost by running on a aree wet foiW of T flings in the northern bahamas Baha ba hamus maa the tenth lost vessel belonging to or it in a the ilia service acm oo 00 of this line is the japan which was waa burned as a boto above buted |