Show CHINESE PERISH IN BURNING SHIP Horrible Fate of Hundreds of Helpless Mongolians on Steamer Hankow Vessel Destroked at Hong Kong Wharf Men Women and Children Being Burned to Death or Drowned European Passengers f are Saved Hong Kong China Tho British teamer Hankow from Canton was burned Sunday morning while lying alongside her wharf Hundreds of Chinese passengers were burned to death and a valuable cargo was do > ntroycd All the European passengers and crew were saved rite steamer Hankow with 2000 Chinese passengers men women and children and seven Europeans and a cargo Including 300 bales of matting CCO I bales of raw silk and 400 bales waste Bilk arrived from Canton at I three oclock Sunday morning and was shortly afterward moored at the wharf r Her chief officer reported to Captain Branch that the ship was afire The captain then directed tho chief foreigner for-eigner to turn on the water through the fire hose This was impossible for tho reason that within five minutes min-utes after the alarm was given the Hankow was ablaze the fore and aft Captain Branch then awakened tile European passengers who rushed down the gang way tho ladles In their night clothes The crow was compelled com-pelled to leave the ship which by this time was a veritable furnace The Chinese steerage passengers were thrown Into a frightful panic Horrifying Hor-rifying shrieks and cries to save their lives were heard but escape was Impossible Im-possible owing to the Inflammable nature I na-ture of the cargo Hundreds were burned to death and many others jumped into the harbor and were drowned The fire was started by the overturning over-turning of a lantern by a opium smoker smok-er |