Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-10-01 | Page 5 | Typhoon Tales Are Harrowing

J TALES AlfS AR ARE HARROWING HARROt Survivors Tell of Seeing Comrades Drown Off South Coast of China HONG KONG Oct 1 AP AP Ilar Har Harrowing rowing accounts of the latest tragedy tragedy tragedy trag trag- edy of ot the seas along the south coast of China Chinn swept by a typhoon last Monday continue to dribble Inas in inas inas as sue SUI arrive arrhe I AS Ail a typical example of the experiences ex experiences experiences ex- ex met In the great storm one Chinese seaman related that his junk tIN tho complement of which was twenty-one twenty males two girls g and four women was struck bv toy the on In tho the vicinity of ot British territory near Hong ong I and nd was waa severely buffeted Ultimately Ultimately Ulti Ulti- Ultimately it turned turtle the narrator narrator narrator narra narra- tor and a companion saving themselves them them- selves by clinging to the upturned upturn d craft After drifting helplessly a a. considerable time timo in the te teeth th of ot the gale they reached comparatively sate waters but In the meantime they had witnessed the drowning one by one of ot the others of ot their crew and had seen five drifting away on wreckage wreckage The junk finally fi finally finally fi- fi nally submerged in twenty fathoms of ot water but the two survivors were picked up by th the British tanker Francol at the entrance of Pass Another fisherman rela related te how the he was successful in storm while his boat buat returned to badly boat damaged by the heavy seas many of ot the crew beIng boIng bo- bo Ing tag washed overboard including the junk master and his children all 1111 of or whom were drowned In this instance were only three su of a total of ot twenty on 1 the junk The Japanese steamer Ylma Maru was that Jt It t is putting in into into to with the rescued s shipwrecked shipwrecked ship ship- ships shipwrecked wrecked crew crow of ot a junk