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Show Shipwrecked Sailors Rescued. Vancouver, B. C, Nov. 4. The steamship steam-ship Empress of Japan from China and Japan brought Captain Tibbetts and eight of the crew of the Kilsap of San Francisco, which sailed from Port Towusend July 4th with 1,000,000 feet of lumber for Shanghai and was wrecked September 9th on Borshino Island. The crew remained on the island twenty-seven days. Water and food gave out aud the men suffered terribly. The captain, cap-tain, mate and two sailors left for the Loo Choo Islands, where they were picked up by a steamer and taken to Hiogo. A passing steamer rescued the remainder. . A . |