Show USED STEAMER AS FUEL When Coal Gave Out Cabins Were Burned OLYMPIAS THRILLING TRIP Even Provisions Consumed to t Keep Firs in Boilers Vessel Drifted 135 Miles and Went to Pieces on Obscuro Part of Japanese Coast Victoria B C Dec 24T1e steamer Olympia which arrived today brought Messrs Harrington and McDonough mining engineer and counsel for the Northwestern Siberian company The miners tell of an interesting voyage voy-age of the steamer Manauense which has since been totally wrecked Owing to the failure to secure coal from the Northeastern Siberian company the Manaucnse was left helpless when a days run from Hakodate Her crew and passengers took axes and broke up the afterhouse tore UP the tween decks and broke up the cases oC salmon sal-mon and the ships fitting for fuel The timbers and preserved fish were fed to the furnaces but the steamer was unable to make port owing to heavy weather She drifted 135 miles back to AkishI bay whence telegrams were sent to Hakodate and coal sent Since the departure of the Olympia cables have told of the total loss of the steamer steam-er after stranding on the Japanese coast |