TERRIBLE SHIPWRECK-
.SUFFERINGS OF CREW. J CAPTAIN COMMITS SUICIDE. SYDNEY, September 21. Eastern news states that the third engineer and ten of the crew of the steamer Ching Hye Teng have arrived at Ningpo. They report the loss of the vessel in a typhoon. Captain Scott, seeing that the destruction of the vessel was inevitable, blew out his brains, ns she disappeared below the sea. Four European officers and seventeen members of the crew were drowned. The survivors suffered terrible privations, drifting about for four and a-half days in an open boat without fool or water. Eventually they were picked up by a Chinese junk.
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Waikato Argus, Volume III, Issue 187, 23 September 1897, Page 2
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105TERRIBLE SHIPWRECK- Waikato Argus, Volume III, Issue 187, 23 September 1897, Page 2
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