Show SINKING I I G Of THE TR TRANSPORT SrO T HITACHI II Fire Was Vas Terrific Decks Were Vere Covered With Corpses nud lud Awash With Blood ONE SHELL KILLED MEN of Troops Flan FI 11 To be Burned antI ami Then Committed Suicide Tokio June D a II m Details In ha connection with the thc sinking of ot tho tue Japanese transport Hitachi by b warships sire are being furnished by br sue KUI Thin The ships were sight Bight sighted Bighted ed cd at It 7 in tho morning and In response to 10 a t 1 signal the tha Hitachi was waa stopped but nt lIt 10 go got under way und attempted 11 to 10 escala The rise followed und opened n a heavy hetty lire directed shout about the water line hue with the Ih troops on Oil bourd The lisa fire wits was tel ter rifle and In III n a 1 few the tho docks were covered with vitis corpses and awash II with blood On lime which struck tho thie room killed 21 20 men ship logan began to 10 and amid sank gradually by tho tiso stern At 0 C In but tho time evening she was vas completely ly submerged Capt Campbell the l h mauler of ot atthe the tho transport Jumped overboard nt III 2 I In 11 the afternoon and IH is litmus num numbered hered among tIme tho mla Tho The chief chlo I wis killed on the bridge h riel l The Tho commander of or tho troops ordered tho timo flag nag to be bo burned then killed him hlll REI Sc if Tho The second mute committed suit mil clde elde Many of or the Ihl crew ertI and tine troops In the tho boats boa IH Tho transport Hado IH Is still Uti afloat but butla l Pu la badly damaged She tho ho Is IR beIng towed Into tho the nearest l port tie ho the tho ships shills 36 3 miles west vest of or J Island Their signals to 10 stop top vw cu un 1111 unheeded heeded d so the lire flee and tutu signaled tot for to those on board lionni tho the Sado HAdo to 10 leave leolo the lIe ship Upon that tho theu crew crow took look to 10 the lie boats boal In ia this way WilY many escaped e toJ tl limo tho ship was waa eventually tired by the enemy Tho number of ot men on nn 1 thC tho two transports transport mid iund the list of casual casualties ties url are not ns its II yet el obtainable The Th of the Iho steamer rest which rescued many survivors of ot the Iho Japanese Hitachi II It II Ihl confirm con the details of her hor disastrous encounter with Iho warships so 80 fAr UH already announced d New N York Juno June 17 The transports Hudo SaIn and Hitachi sunk stunk by bythe bythe the time nJ were valuable steamers owned by b the Iho Nippon ICes isha und antI In London martha risks II a II London dispatch to 10 the tho Times The Sado Was 1 nt at 0 I ito 1100 and the Iho Hitachi at It The policies written by London Insurance companies contained a n free freo of oh capture seizure clause which excludes war licks so o the Iho loss loaa docs thos not fall cult on au the tho It Is III understood the tho coy cor correspondent respondent adds that all war loss lOBs of ot and damage to 10 transports will be made mado good by the Japanese government I |