Show MAROONED ON ISLAND over twenty two hundred persons in danger of on marooned on a small island in the china sea with provisions for only ten days are 2260 coolies and four europeans the steamship steam steams snip ilip swanley arrived at S on the alth badly damaged and reported that she was bound from hongtong Hong kong for south africa with 2260 coolies and four euro passengers aboard and that on october 3 she grounded on island about seventy miles south of the islands when the stean 14 boated three days later a number of holes were found in her bot hot torn tom and she was obliged to land all her passengers on island where they were left with provisions for ten tell days the vessel was just able to make singapore as she was leaking badly and will not be able to proceed for some time |