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Tseung Kee Shipbuilding yard a small steamer i in course of construction was washed against the Praya wall and badly damaged. It was lifted bodily on to the Prays, but carried back into the water by the waves. In addition to these catastrophes two lighters stranded at East Point, and tea large junks were smashed up between Ship Street and Jardine's Sugar Works. To escape the full force of the gale Police Sergeant Boole entered the Naval Yard camber with the No. 1 police launch. camber was well filled with launches, but the shelter was not sufficient, in consequence of which much damage was done. As he was taking his launch into this baven a beavy lurch to port sent the sergeant and his orew overboard, and they had to swim for their lives, Happily, they all succeeded in landing safely. Only two bodies have been so far recovered, but the sea has not yet given up its dead, and it is anticipated that the total death roll will not fall far short of 1,000 persons.
ON THE HARBOUR.
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Through the courtesy of the Hon. Com- mander Basil Taylor, R.N., Harbour Master, a representative of the Daily Press was allowed to tour the harbour with him in the steam launch "Daisy. Starting from the Harbour Office the first object to attract attention was one of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's lighters which had been lifted bodily on to the Hong- kong, Canton and Macao wharf, causing consi- derable damage to the base of the wharf and completely destroying the shed thereon. The bamboo wharf utilised by the Harbour depart- ment had been completely washed away, and floating in the harbout near it was a capsized junk which the Harbour Master had to give ing. tructions to have removed. As the launch pro- ceeded through the harbour numerous quan- tities of wreckage were passed amongst which floated hats and other wearing apparel in- dioating probable loss of life.
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The first steamer visited W&S Messrs
"Lai Sang, Jardine, Mathe-son and Co.'s 8.8. which displayed considerable damage on her port bow and quarter.
According to the story told by the master, Captain E. J. Tadd, she parted her moorings from No. 3 buoy and dragged. When "drifting on to the Hongkong shore be managed to clear, and manoeuvred her out into mid stream. Then she came into collision with some unknown ship, the weather being too hazy to discern anything. After this further manoeuvring was useless, and the anchors were let go. But the loss of 125 fathoms of chain and an anchor left the vessel incapable, and she drifted across to Stonecutters and was washed So close was she high and dry on a sandy beach, washed to the shore, in fact, that it was only necessary to pass a rope ladder over the sideto enable the crew to land. The "Lai Sang" was towed safely off yesterday, and is making very' little water. Proceeding along the shore of Stonecutters, mumerous wrecked junks and other native craft were seen high and dry on the beach, and masts of sunken vessels showed above the water line. Then the order was given to run alongside the 8.8. "Pocahontas
fore which lay sground
and aft Stonecutters, with little hope of getting off Her bow was before the next high tide. stove in and considerably bent, and her mate's reply as to how they got there was that "A Jardine bost had gone on top of them." Casting off from the "Pocahontas" and look. ing towards Chung Hne Island, we saw hard and fast upon the beach the steamer "Sohuil. kill," one of the Standard Oil Co's fleet. As we watched, two tugs took her in tow and succeeded in getting her off, but it observed that she was leaking badly, and as she was towed into the stream her main pumps had to be kept hard at it.
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[August 3, 1906.
Considerable anxiety is felt as to the fate of No. 3 police launch. It was to have left Taipo at o'clock on Monday night but has not been heard of since. Telephonic communication with Taipo has been interrupted, and it is the launch may have sought possible
deck as though it had been so much matchwood.↑ foundered, and numerous lighters belonging Her enormous spars were split like pine, her to the Cement Works have also gone to the davits had snapped like cast iron and her life-| bottom. boat on the starboard quarter was smashed to pieces. In fact, the whole after part of the ship was complete chaos, and the skipper and his orew had not escaped in this "tumbling of " When the their house about their ears.' launch ran alongside the "Juteopolis" yester day the doctor's dag was flying, and the doctor had just gone aboard to attend to the captain who had received two broken ribs, and to several of the crew who received minor injuries.
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Hard behind the sailer floated a large and helpless junk. Her masts had been carried
and her deck
strewn with sway wreckage, but she had been successful in weathering the storm. Without boats, however, After the the crews' wants could not be met. trying time through which they had passed they were without water, but Commander Taylor came to the rescue. Realising their want be ran the harbour launch alongside, and it was with many expressions of gratitude that the crew accepted the much needed fluid. To the rear of this junk again was another, but she was a total wreck, odly her masts showing above water. To the west of the harbour "Amara with her port quar- lay the 8.8. ter considerably damaged. She had dragged her anchors and fouled a Norwegian steamer, Looked together these two the Standard." vessels fouled the "Barrow," which was dis- charging oil at West Point, and the three in close quarters proceeded to drift seaward. Their course, however, was blocked by quantity of wreckage, but the vessels kept fogether until after the blow and then returned to their anchorages.
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Besides the ships enumerated, others have een driven ashore and more or less seriously damaged, The French river steamer "Charley Hardouin" is ashore on Hungbom Point, the "Aolis" is ashore off Yanmeti, the “Hoiching and the ferry" Morning Star" lie on the beach the "Persia" lies on at Laichikok and the beach in Kowloon Bay. At Mongkoktsui the "Signal," the "Shaoshing " and the P. & O. Co's are on the rocks. At steam launch "Jeanette the wharf beyond the Wing Lok Street wharf the river steamer "Sun On" foundered and was smashed to pieces. All that was showing of her after the storm yesterday was the funnel and a lifebuoy. It is very gratifying, however, to learn that all the crew escaped. The Hongkong,
"Sui An Canton and Macao Company's 8.5.
the was lying at her wharf just before
while there WAS time the typhoon, but
decided to push off behind captain Stonecutters to a safe anchorage. He was there in good time, and the ship rode the gale through, but the period of the storm was an anxions time for those on board, as a ship which was firing rockets rode close in the rear of the "Sui An, and those on board were afraid that she might drift on to her.
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The Douglas steamer "Haitan" was at her usual moorings until about half-past eleven, when Captain Roach deemed it prudent to make for shelter in Kowloon Bay. It was no easy malter to get there against the wind at and in a blinding rainstorm, but the steamer reached the Bay without mishap and safely rode out the storm, The lowest reading on the
Haitan was 29.3.
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Then the large four-masted barque "Jateo- polis" attracted attention. In the distance she looked one of the most forlorn craft on the water, and a nearer inspection of her proved that she had been the greatest sufferer during the typhoon. The after part of the ship was a perfect mass of debris, and only by an inspection of her can one realise what must have been the force of the wind in this latest blow. Her massive iron mizzen mast was doubled up like a piece of wire, and it had snapped off close to the
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The "Hygeia" also passed through a trying experience. The roofs ware blown away, and the only patient, a European lady, and Sister Gourlay momentarily expected the worst to happen, as the vessel was dragging her anchor. However assistance arrived and the patient was transferred to the Government Civil Hospital,
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shelter there.
The launch was in charge of Sergt. Boulger, who had with him P. Č. O'Connor and 14 Chinese. Yesterday after. noon Inspector Langley went out to search for the missing lannoh, but had to return without having learned anything regarding it. Bergt. Boulger, it will be remembered, rode out the last typhoon.
# 'Bisley," Captain Eagleton of the s.6. which vessel arrived in port yesterday after a stormy voyage, brought nine survivors from
Islands. There a junk which foundered close to the Ladrons were seven men and two
women.
AT KOWLOON.
Kowloon did not fare so badly yesterday as in the typhoon of 1906, and the damage on land, though considerable, is not so extensive as on the memorable 18th September. The Godown Company had two godowns collapse, and the Admiralty matsheds were demolished but the most serious occurrence was the destruc- tion of the married quarters of the 105th Mahrattas on Gun Club Hill. Fortunately no one was injured. The roof of the military married quarters in Austin Road was also damaged, and the Water Police Station similar experience. landslip had ooourred in Middle Road, the earth falling from Signal Hill, while the police pier A matshed at Blackhead's was wrecked. Point was blown down, and most of the roads were temporarily blocked by fallen trees and telephone wires. Last night the Electric Com- pany was unable to supply Kowloon with electric light.
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Two godowns sunk outside the police cam- bor with valuable cargoes of tes.
Eight houses in Fak Sing Lane and three in Portland Street, Taumati, collapsed during the storm, burying a large number of the in- mates. The police rescued about 20, but it is believed that as many more have lost their lives,
Several houses have shared the same fate in Kowloon City, but no casualties have bзen reported.
The pile drivers engaged on the oil works at Laichikok broke from their moorings and were washed high and dry on the beach.
AT THE RAILWAY WORKS.
All the bungalows at the north face railway works, Shatin, with the exception of Assistant Engineer Valpy and Tunnel Superintendent Waite's, have been demolished, also the coolie quarters, the engine sheds, the blacksmith's After this general shed and the hospital. collapse, which resulted in the death of one coolie and the injury of three, nearly all the employees at the north face of the railway had to return to Kowloon or Hongkong.
At Hunghom the trucks have been overturned and in some instances are lying on the top of grounded junks,
THE "YINGKING' FOUNDERED,
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
There can be little doubt that the Canton river steamer Yingking" has sank with her three hundred passengers and crew. The brief information to hand was brought by the Hong. kong Canton and Macao steamer "Henngshan" yesterday afternoon. This steamer was signalled yesterday by a Customs oruiser at Pillar Point, and informed that only twelve out of the 300 persons on the “Yingking" had been rescued. The survivors the customs boat is bringing to Hongkong.
The South African coolie ship "Cranley collided with a German steamer, name known, during the height of the storm and was so badly damaged, that it was found neces- sary to dook her. Thirty-six new plates are necessary to make her agafh seaworthy. The "Katherine Park" dragged her cables across Kowloon Bay, and no doubt would have stranded but for fouling the telegraph cables. Her anchors got entangled with the cables and held her until the storm had ceased. The torpedo destroyer "Whiting" is ashore at boat Lyemoon, but it is expected that she will be safely refloated. At Kowloon Docks eleven
as or four junks have launches and three
At Pillar Point the " Yingking" had beea "Fatshan," bat must. lying alongside the s.s. bare drifted, as the latter vessel missed her in the storm. Grave doubts, are entertained to the safety of the European pamengers