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TYPHOON INCIDENTS.
GALLANT RESCUE WORK.
HOW MACAO FARED.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY : AUGUST218T,
The Yaumati shelter, presented a scene of chaos when the weather was at its. height. Jammed n they were, junks. sarpans "bud launches were bumping heavily together. In this way a number, of junka were suck, their sides stove it Altogether eight fair-sized junks were sunk in the shelter, god two went ashore.
MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY WITH CAPTAIN OF THE "EGREMONTA mumber of sampaha came to grief, but
THE COLONY,
The following message was received by E the Governor from Manila, at 3.25 p.al, yesterday:
His Excellency "the "Governor of
Hongkong,
Sincere sympathy in the losses of property and life during the recent typhoon.
1. Woop, Governor-General
To which His Excellency replied:
His Excellency the Governor-General,
Manila,
Hongkong greatly appreciates your njessage of' sympathy,
Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson.
STURES.
THE LOONG SANG " DISASTER.
LIGHT SHED ON THE MYSTERY OF THE RAFT,
KUROPEAN BODY SIGHTED,
CASTLE"
INTERVIEWED.
MORE ABOUT THE HEROIC RESCUE.
loss of life. fortunately there was,no excepting in the case of a small boy who was washed overboard from a junk and Capt. Cann of the Ayremont treatie, drowned. The rounded junks finally was interviewed yesterday morning by landed up against the south jetty wall, representative of the Daily Press With where they becnie total wrecks. In the coming molesty he was at first loath to Shaukiwan refuge things were not so bad, peak of the very gallant rescue work though here, too, about six junks were carried out by the Egremont Castle, her sunk, and two or three ran ashore. In sister ship the Howes Castle, and by the hoth shelters a large number of boats Huah Ping, during the typhoon when bewere damaged, the estimates being about tween them they succeeded in rescuing" fixe
hundred on each side of the water.
of the Chinese crew of the ill-fated Foong! Sang. But when questioned as to dai- HOW THE PRAYA "RECLAMATION
gers, work undertaken by the Chief
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CAPE D'AGUILAR WIRELESS STATION WRECKED.
It is reported that. Cape,, d'Aguilar wireless station has been wrecked by the typhoon A cait: at the General Post the information that D'Aguilar was ou Office during yesterday morning, elicited of nation and had been out of action giucu the typhoon. The exact nature of the damage is not known, but it is said that the Station has suffered severely.
In the meantime arrangements have been made with C.P.S.S. agents in Hong kong for the General Post Office to use the 10. Emprices of Australia's wireless servion to despatch messages and nṛnumber of the radio office men were working on the
eras boat all yesterday, Enquiring as to whether S.0.8. calls had been received from ships outside the port we were informed that none had been
received.
HOW CHEONG CHAU FADED.
The houses of European residants at Cheung Chau have sustained some dam-, age which is particularly severe in the
ease of Mr. Donnelly's house, which has
had all its windows and doors blown in, The back portion of Dr. Heanley's houso has fallen and Mr. Franklin's bonse has also suffered considerable damage. All the other European, houses appear to have escaped fightly.
ABERDEEN FISHING, FLEET THOUGHT TO BE SAFE.
no reports yesterday as to loss of any The police at Aberdeen had received
of the fishing fleet which operates from Aberdeen. The junks apparently made Saturday reached its height. Aberdeen, safely before the typhoon on Those bonts which did not do so apparently took shelter to the lee of some of the does not appear to have diminished in Islands near by. At any rate the fleet
size and no no reports have been made it is presumed that the fleet is quite anfe GLEANINGS FROM VARIOUS.
SOURCES.
A message of sympathy has also beenOfficer of the IIwak Ping (a Čerman) and
Enquiries at the Public Works Depart received by H. F. the Governor from H.F his own Second Officer (Mr. Stewart) hement yesterday morning showed that very warmed to his subject afid gave a brief little damage was done to the reclamation but glowing account of their heroisni, not work in the Harbour. The Taikoktsui forgetting at times to refer also to the reclamation has suffered no damage at good work done by the men of the Bowrall, and the Praya East reclamation Castle. "M,
came off lightly. Whilst the typhoon The Egremont Castle, he said, was lying Insted huge waves were to be seen dash of Stonecutters with two anchory downing against the reclaimed hard on the Hopes of any further, survivors froni and steaming at full speed ahead, bus Praya, and washing it (ur. so it appear the ill-fated, Irony Sung sink lower and the force of the wind from the NE was ed) out to sea. This was witnessed by kower as time progresses. At six o'clock to great that it drove the abip out towards a number of people and gave rise to the yesterday evening de more living beings West Point in company with the other two false impression that a good dent of dam- For dead bodies hail been recovered. vessels. During this time wireless cum age was done. A gand deat of land was Shortly after one o'clock in the after-munication was kept with the Bowes washed into the sea, but it was kept in noon the body of a European Hoating Custle and arrangements, were made to the area of reclamation by the rubble down the harbour was sighted from the have rocket line ready in cause they bank erected for the purpose hefore the Harbour Office, but it could not be found who would drift past the vessel. Whilst very little harm was done. It will be should be needed to rescue any person work was originally commenced. Thus
A hoatmen employed on An A.P.C. when a bont was sent unt. The Water they were being borne towards the light remembered that the first work carried lighter fell over board from the lighter in Police were immediately usuniented buoy anchorage off West Point in the out in connection with the scheme was to Causeway Bay during the "typhoon and with and they als sent out a couple of driving rain, the lookout reported a dredge a channel bounding the area to
was drowned.
A coolie was killed by a landslide, at launches, but at the time of writing they quantity of wreckage with men clinging be reclaimed. A foundation was then
to it being swept past. had failed to find anything.
It was found laid down, and a rubble bank erected all Wong Nei Chung, during the typhoon. impossible to use the rocket and volun- along. Therefore all that happened
Three more bodies have been recovered The body, was some way out in mid-ters to man a lifebont were called for when the seas washed over the newly from the three-storied house which col- streain, but with the aid of glasses it was (as the Captain put it) to make an formed lend was that the earth fell into lapsed at No. 127, Kramer Street, Sham useertained that he was a European, and attempt to save the poor devils from this area, making the water shallower. Shui Po. Altogether eight bodies have
almost certain death." The Second This simply means that there will be legs now been recovered from the debris. that he was wearing a pair of black trou-Officer (Mr. Stewart) very gallantly earth to fill in there Inter on. Soundingsed by the police from under & collapsed The body of a coolie has been recover pers and a khaki shirt. He waS
offered to take charge of the boat and this, taken both inside and outside the area identified,
by the way, despite the fact that he and show that only some of the finer sediment matshed at Kowloon Tsai. his heel smashed earlier in the morning,
in the earth escaped to sea, Another blow to the hopes and fears The lifebont was launched successfully of those ashore was dealt by the arrival and the last the anxious watcher, an deck of launches yesterday morning with the before the wind. It appears that the life. Hongkong, Kowloon und Wanchai were saw was that it was being driven away
The Government Fire Brigule at news that they had picked up two of the boat crew struggled hard to rench two men kept extremely busy throughout the day Lónny Sarg's lifehonts Ching Lan whom they could faintly are through the of the typhoon. At Kowloon Mr. Sau fire have been found in various parts of linding rain a short distance away but ders and his Brigade were constantly on the districts. All the deaths are said to Tax, opposite Cap Sui Mun. They were before the could get near they had been the run from shortly after 10 a. to be due to the typhoon. smashed, to pieces, but their recovery carried past. All this time wireless com7.30p.m. Each time they returned to the scenis to solve the mystery of the raftmunication was being kept up between Station they found another.call awaiting father, mother, two sons, a daughter and At Shatin as a family consisting of a the two sister ships, and the Bores them. These calls were mainly to cola son-in-law, were rushing out of a mat- which people.nihóro to seeingatie had also launched a boat to assist lapses. They received one call to a fire shed which was about to collapse they Jeave the doomed vessel, but of which in the rescue work. This small craft was at Temple Street, Yaumati, where the were caught by a tidal wave and only the captain declared in an interview here successful than the other for partly wind, after blowing in the window of a the father and one of the sons were knew nothing. The hoats were lashed by rowing and partly by being blown in
saved, together with rope, and between them were large tins obviously used for the sake of buoyancy. The whole was inshed together, and so formed into a raft. In this way the crew probably hoped to nake the hurts more biorant, and so able to carry more people
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Naval launches and civil launches were searching all day but without success. CHINESE SURVIVORS FROM THE
LOONG SANG."
CALLS ON THE FIRE BRIGADE.
A child aged 7 years was washed off n junky typhoon waves at Ngau Shi Wan. The parents have since recovered the hody
in Shaukiwan. Five of these were pick- Ten more bodies have been recovered ed up on the foreshore and the remaining
has been demolished by the typhoou. About 40 feet of the bund at Tai Po There are also one or two houses down in the district.
was sunk off Ki Owear Lingting, while The Shekki ferry launch Hang Tung towing a passenger junk. No liver were lost, and she will probably be refloated. ANOTHER TYPHOON.
THE TYPHOON AT KAÇAO.
Th typhoon did much damage among junks and sampans at Maeno and it is conjectured that the loss of life must be 200 or 400.
Three Portuguese attached to
the
The aeroplane she was demolished. A good deal of damage was done to house property and to the trees and foliage of the Colony.
kitchen proceeded to scatter the fire in their direction they managed side two men in the water. These with Enon got alight but the Brigade on arrival get along the grate all over the kitchen. The place grent difficulty they pulled on board, the had no difficulty in quelling the outbreak." huge waves almost upsetting the lifeboat. At the Central Fire Station, Hongkong, the ship but the life boat of the Egremmat men were also kept going throughout the They were sneerssful in getting Inck to the Superintendent (Mr. Brooks) and his Cue, was not successful, being swept day. On one occasion when, arriving towards the light buoy anchorage. Some back from a fire, in Connaught Road. time after their effort to rescue the first caused by a live wire setting fire to a two men they came across another man verandah, Mr. Brooks and the Station and they managed to pull him into the Officer (Mr. Moss) found their own quar bont, where he lay in a state of sheer ters on the fifth door of the new temporat 12.45 pm, of a typhoon in Lat.19.N. The Observatory gave warning yesterday exhaustion.
ary fire station in a state of confusion. Long.110E. The direction in which it was The Hah Ping hard also launched a Situated at the top of the high building, moving was unknown and its exact posi- lifeboat in charge of the German officer the windows of their quarters facing the tion was also uncertain: and he and his crew managed to reach sea, were exposed to the full force of Later in the afternoon, the No. 1 signal O calling at the Compradore, Depart-two more men whom they saved. This the wind, na the windows were not pro-was hoisted, and lighters with cargoes lifeboat was then driven before the wind vided with jalouses several panes of glass partly unloaded, and other small craft ment of Messrs. Fardian, Matheson & Cut fortunately towards the Egremont gave way before the fury of the gale, made for the typhoon shelters. yesterday afternoon, we were informed Castle where willing hands were waiting Through the broken window panes wind Later in the evening the position was that about 14 of the Chinese crew of the to secure the boat and get the rescue rushed and smashed big portions of the given as 19 N. 118 E, moving West 5.8. Loung Sung had reported to the party and the rescued men on board. A frail simplex asbestos partitions dividing office as having been rescued at various was secured...
line was thrown to the crew and the boat the various rooms. Mr. Moss found that parts of the harbour. At the present it
his bed room was practically wrecked, Nothing farther was heard by the the wardrobe lying on its side and piles is not possible to atate the exact figure, Captain of the Egremont Castie as to the of plaster lying about. He also noted but Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Cafety of his ship's life boat until some that his wife and children were missing taking statements from these men.
considerable time after the storm, when and in his anxiety to find them he rushed it was learnt that the boat had been along a narrow gangway outside the On Sunday the water police recovered picked up by a Norwegian steamer and hailding." He was there caught by the Harbour Office lost their lives by the sink- six Chinese bodies from the harbour, four the crew and the rescued man takon on wind and carried off his feet. Farting of a launch. of these were wearing lifebelts and it is board. On the Sunday Mr. Stewart re-nately he managed to hold on to the rail presumed that they belonged to the ss turned to his ship where, Capt. Cannings and was thus saved from being Loong Sang. Two of them have been said, he is at present confined to his bank blown to the bottom of the building identified as belonging to the vessel. with a very bad foot.
During this trying experience his foot Capt. Cana, referring again to the ex- was injured. Mr. Brooks and Mr. Moar FUNERAL OF LOONG SANG'S?perience of his vessel, said that the only later found that their wives and children
THIRD ENGINEER
thing that saved his ship from going had transferred to a anfer place on nshore at West Point or Green Island, lower elevation in the Inilding The remains of the late Mr. Malcola was the fact that the wind Auddenly Black, third engineer on the ill-fated changed from N.E, to S.E. and the vessel Loong Sang, were interred yesterday after. was blown back towards Stonecutters. noon at Happy Valley Cemetery, the Rev. The storm then began to die down. H.T. Holman officiating at the funeral As to the Loong Song, Capt. Cann ox- service. The chief mourners were the pressed the opinion very strongly, that Chief Officer of the Loong Sung (Mr. J. Sif there had been life saving apparatus on The Brigade set off in two motor board and only one fireman was saved. Afasson) and Mr. J. Muirhead a friend of the Praya it would have been possible and engines intending to make the Peak by The crew included three Portuguese. the deceased. Following immediately be highly probable that the lives of most of way of Stubbs Rond, which they found A large passenger funk, famed - the hind these two gentlemen were Capt. the crew would have been saved. As it to be blocked. They returned to Central Shekki-to, which is said to have asi ont F. T. Wheeler (Marine Superintendent of is, he thinks it n disgrace that no such and proceeded to the scene by way of son passengers on board, foundered. The Mesure Jardine Matheson & Co., Ltd.), appliances are provided here,
the Peak train. On arrival they found launch Colonne picked up over 100 and Mr. D. McMurray (Superintendent)
that the man had heet extricated, and survivors, on nearby islands, but scores Engineer of the same firm). A'l thei
he was sent to hospital. Indo-China S.N. Co. ships in port were Ships arriving in the Harbour yester trepresented at the funeral whilst the day without oxception reported . fine staff of Messrs, Jardine, Matheson & Co. weather outside. The Blue Funnel za were present in large numbers Amongst Lanmedun which erge into port at six others present were Mr. D. G. Mo'clock on Sunday morning brought with Bernard (Managing Director of Messrs. her three Chinese whom she had picked Jarding, Matheon & Co., Ltd.), Mr. Run from a raft off Amby. There men he Sutherland (Shipping Manager), Mr. W. longed to a junk which had been wrecked. Galloway, Mr. N. L. Railton, Mr. Me- and reported that they were the only Farlang, Mr. A. F. Ormund, Captains survivors.. Kennedy, Campbell, Kelman and Chand- The B. Fan, from Haiphong, re- Ter
ported passing on the trip two small The coffin, as it was borne from the junks, and one large one floating bottom hears to the graveside was covered with up. the flag of the British Mercantile Marine, A launch belonging to the Chinese A large number of wrist, were men; | Maritime Customa has been discovered by the offers of the Company, and from ground at Castle. Peak broken clean în the staff of the firm as well as one from two. What has become of the survivors, Mrs. Black, the deceased's widow. if any, is not know."
非
CHAOS IN THE SHELTERS.
Rotterdam was driven against a wall near Two dredgers have me to grief. The alacto-Sine The Peking capsized and only two of the crew were saved. Another Mr. Brooks said the sea spray from the big diedzer in the inner harbour, oper harbour was carried to the top of the ating between Green Island and Chiusan building.
wharf broke loose and smashed up In the afternoon the Central. Fire number of junks and sampans. Brigade received a call to a collapse of The Armed launch Almirante Huga a matslied at the Peak end of Stubie Lacerda foundered with 15 of her crew on.
A CHIMNEY IN A BED."
of people are missing. There is no bewa of another large, passenger junk named the Rongmoun-do and it is feared that she A young Portuguese larly living iris lost, which would mean another large Lyemun Villas, Kowloon, had a narrow addition to the death roll. escape froin serious injury, and probable A very large number of-houses have death, on the morning of the typhoon, collapsed in Macao, but the facade of the Feeling unwell she remained abed, bat old Church of St. Paulo which has been when the typhoon was about at its height standing on she left her bed to telephone to her em- Church was destroyed by fire thirty or an elevated site einen "the ployers to explain her absence. heard a crash, and returning to the bed successfully.
She forty years ago, weathered the typhoon romfound that the chimney of the adjoining house had crashed, through the roof and fallen upon the vacant bed
A very similar incident occurred at Kenlis," Mount Kellet, the residence of Mr. and Mrs: P W Parker, when the roof: fell onto the bed a moment after Mr Parker had left it
numerous that they could not attend them The calk upon the Bremen were Bo all. Troops enme out to assist in rescue work late in the afternoon.
sunken junks and launches.
The inner harbour is blocked with
The Harbour improvement works have suffered considerably.
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