AN EXCITING INCIDENT.

Lake County Press, Issue 982, 3 October 1901, Page 3

AN EXCITING INCIDENT.

A sensutioe.al st< ry °f s!rp"’tee>-., followed by a [: rat cal atluk ip Chinese, Ims (mine to !mim _by mu. The. Gei man 1 1 mmer 11 aiaan '• awrecked on the Tuiohow Reefs, and in t ; 1 j,,■ * time the vessel was half c >f her cargo by Foochow pistes, win defied the -nuhoritns an I terrorism.! the ne’ghh Humd. Ihe j oca i tn ■ ndarin attempted, with his few soldiers, to hold the pirates check, but was not succ sdul. They tuck possession of the ship, and got almost all the cargo out of the fore and mam holds. /-Aa she was resting on a reef forward with deep water aft, the emptying of the £* rwnrd car,o made her back off and sink in lo tuthoms. The pirates are expert divers, and got into the treasure room after she went to the bottom ; but somehow the room door shut on them, and seven dead bodies are now imprisoned beneath the water. The ship’s underwriters having sold the wreck, the purchasers engaged ]NIr T. W. Bowern to superintend salvage operations, and he has just returned to Hong Kong from the seme of the wreck to make his report. He had some wild times with the piiales, but succeeded in recovering some of the stolen property.