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TYPHOON'S TERRIBLE AFTERMATH (CONTINUED),
UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT TO MR. F. SUTTON. CONVEYED TO HOSPITAL IN HEIGHT OF STORM.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 2016. 1926
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"Club".........“It was a good job wa collapsed and a portion of the masonry said the old Indian watchman when of the bridge was swept away. On the accosted yesterday," otherwise the whole other ride of the canal the foundations place would have
Fushed out, into the storm It was better than the fire."
The old Indian was nursing his shoulder. LITTLE VILLAGE FLOODED.
He had been struck by a piece of wood. At the corner of Ice House Street and
Wongneichong village, wholly inhabit-No other occupant had the slightest Queen's Road (by the Hongkong Electric ed by Chinese squatters, became unin
mjury.
Yesterday, the loss could not be esti
of the railway track of the Sang Lee the big clap we rush on we heard contractors were also washed away.
enously engaged throughout the day in clearing away the water and meas caused by it, and also boarding up likely places where water might suter.....
Mr. Fred Sutton, of the Public Work torrent, which was at one time sweeping) as could be ascertained: there were" na sands of dollars.
An unfortunate accident occurred to Company's show-room) there was a swil, habitable, owing, to the deluge. As formated but it will surely run into thou
Department in the early hours Monday morning,,
of
He was staying at the Hongkong Club and about 3 am, he went to close the glass doors leading from his bedroom to the verandah in order to prevent the rain from coming into the room.
Whilst doing this his foot slipped on the wet floor and to prevent himself from falling, he stretched ous an arm which weat through the glass panel. With the whole weight of his body behind it the arm was severely cut in several places above the elbow and the loss of blood was considerable.
Assistance was forthcoming from Col. Robertson, the Club Secretary, and other club members. A telephone message was gent to the Central Fire Station for an ambulance and the reply was received that an ambulance would be sent as soon as the storm abated. When it was point ed out, however, that the case was urgent an ambulance was promised immediately, and very shortly afterwards one arrived, accompanied by a Chinese ready, if necessary, to render first aid.
When it is remembered that at this time the rain was probably at his heaviest and the streets in the central district were possibly under two or more feet of water, the prompt way in which the ambulance answered the call is to be highly commended.
Mr. Sutton was conveyed by the am bulance to the Government Civil Hos- pital.
THE OUTLYING DISTRICTS,
'SHAUKIWAN',AND ABERDEEN
„SWAMPED. į
The outlying districts fared little better that the City itself, but fall de tails are lacking owing to the extreme difficulties of communication.
"Throughout yesterday, there was no communication between Hongkong and Shaukiwan except by telephone, and even then several connections were out of order A huge landslide at the Ming Yuen gardens made vehicular communi- cation impossible.
Lying as it does under the bills, Shau- kiwan was flooded, and the houses along the main street were considerably affect ed. There was no new of any casualties in the district.
high across the road, emptying its flood drowning fatalities in this area, but the down the lower portion of Ice Houso people quitted their homes with thể break Street. By the afternoon the food bad of day. Articles of furniture were taken subsided, as it had everywhere on the away in the swirling waters. In the lower levels, except for omparatively vicinity, a couch was seen bobbing on small streams. But behind it had left the water, a dead pig doating like a log,
and a medley of pots, pans and chairs.
trail of mud and gravel soil, together with innumerable bricks and silt. Des Voux Road presented a similar scene of mud and debris, and here, as elsewhere traffic was considerably impeded.
AT WANCHAI
Much the same conditions prevailed in the Western as in the Eastern district, At West Point the houses and shops were Boeded, and the nullahs were blocked and overflowing. At the Eastern end of the City the Wanchai Road (or Praya) wAA fooded during the early hours, but during the forenoon, it changed into a veritable quagmire. At one-time water several feet deep flooded Queen's Raad in the neighbourhood of Wanchai as the big nullah which passes down by the side of Murray Barracks had burst its walls.
Practically all the houses and godowns along the Prays through Wanchai were wooded, and from 10:30 am. occupiers of houses and fokis at godowns were to be seen baling out and brushing water and debria away.
IMPASSABLE ROADS.
All the important roads in the Central districts were impassable, where debris had been left by the swirling torrents which had carried it there. The lower level trams were unable to run until late in the morning, and then only as far as Blue Buildings, Wanchai (near the Naval Canteen). The road from Welling- ton Barracks as far as Murray Barracks was blocked by the bursting of the nullah from Kennedy Road, end the consequent scattering of debris and water to a depth of several feet along there. Cars atempt- ed to pass through, but without success At the junction of Ice House Street and Des Yeux Road the track and roadway were similarly blocked; while motors and other vehicular trafic found it impossible to proceed along Queen's Road at the top of Ice House Street. At the bottom of Pedder-Street near the Post Office the road was a couple of feet deep in water, sand soil and mud in the centre; while the C.P.R. offices and Post Office base- ment were flooded to a depth of several
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STAIRWAYS AS WATER PIPES. European residents in the Valley also had an anxious time, as many of the residences were badly flooded. Some of these houses have fat roofs, and in the torrential downpour the small pipes ware unable to carry the rain away. Con sequently, the water rushed down the stairways, into the rooms, and out by the front doors.
its environs is unprecedented, and it will The damage caused in the Valley and take months before it regains its normal appearance. Moreover, it will entail a tremendous amount of toil
S.C.A.A. MEMBERS ALARMING EXPERIENCE
Messrs. Ho Aa Lav and Yew Man Kit, well known members of the South China Athletic Association, who went out for a row on Sunday afternoon, had a narrow escape in a result on the squall which sprang up towards six o'clock.
Th
A DESERTED VILLAGE.
The Chinese hamlet of Kowloon 'Tsai, a village of 44 huts, not far from Sham- shuipo, will be uninhabitable for many a long day: The whole area is flooded,, every but has been the sport of a tremen- dous torrent which swept down from the hillaide, the erections. have been twisted and broken, and borne away. Over, a handred inhabitants are homeless. In the thunderous, lightning-lit night they heard the storm gather force and the waters leaping into their glade from the hills above. Quickly the water rose and men, women, and children braved the terrors of the night, and made a frantic bid for safety. All were saved; everyone counted for. Thus has come about known to be living there has been ac another strange-miracle of the storm.
SCENE OF DESOLATION,
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in the vicmity. Almost every vestige of COLOURED NETS
The place where the hamlet was situ sted was unapproachable yesterday, but the scene could be witnessed from a hill
babitation had disappeared, save for a litter of bamboo, an agglomeration of housebold utensils, matting and twisted structure floating in the "lake.
Here and there on the outskirts of the sheet of water were little knots of people.. villagers looking on at the...obliteration of their homes.
KOWLOON TONG."
Their boat was near Cust Rocks when caught in the squall and rowing became very difficult. The two occupants even tually determined to conserve their energy and let the boat drift and fortu- nately the set of the current was towards Excepting for the general inundation, Kowloon Bay instead of the pumerous which flooded its environs, Kowloon Tong rocks in the neighbourhood. They were received very little damage. The base- able to reach the shore and after shelter-ments of the dwellings were focded for ing for a time in a farmer's bouse they a few hours. arrived at Kowloon City..
Their relatives and friends had natur- ally become very anxious as to their safety as nothing had been heard' or seed of them in spite of repeated searchings by a Water Police launch. They were reassured by the telephone mesiage, which the two victims of the storm were able to send about 11 p.m
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THE KOWLOON SIDE.
FACTORY BLAZE: CHINESE VILLAGE DESTROYED.
Considerable damage, however, 21.3. done to the gardens, most of the root crops having been swept away. All the routes leading to the place were com- pletely submerged.
Two Chinese hits in th
locality col lapsed, but the occupants escaped injury.
A THUNDERBOLT?
ASSERTIONS OF TWO EUROPEAN RESIDENTS.
A European resident at Causeway Bay told a Daily Press representative yester day that during the height of the storm at 4 o'clock in the morning he could swear that he had seen a thunderbolt fall in the direction of the Taihang.and the Sockunged hills.
"Kowloon did not fare so badly as Early yesterday morning, the #hole. Everywhere vehicles found dificulty, Hongkong, but on ita outskirts, in Sham of the village of Aberdeen was under not so much in making headway through shaipo, Mongkok and Kowloon City, several feet of water. A great many huts miniature lakes and rivalets, but in
some alarming accidents occurred were demolished and many inhabitants scraping over the sticky surfaces of Nathan Road, was yesterday afternoon, were rendered homeless. Several junka thick mud at the bottom. Pedestrians undoubtedly, the cleanest street in the were badly buffeted by the storm, and who wore storm boots found it alwhole Colony. There was, however, a aqme were believed either to have been most impossible to walk through, as their deal of silt on the pavements. wrecked or wasbed away, The Tai Shing feet became entangled in the slash. It Paper Mill Company's building was was not until late afternoon, and after The streets in Yaumati, and in the badly damaged. A private reservoir at gange of coolies had been at work, clear other districts were knee-deep in mud pool of water to find its outlet through the rear of the mill broke through and ing the worst parts that vehicular traffic carried away the retaining wall. It is could obtain passage, and even then those reported that no one was injured.
who succeded in reaching the Naval Yard The flood subsided considerably be area found themselves often Brmly stuck fore night, and left behind it heaps of in the treacherous "quicksand" of mud wood and débris.
and had to be helped out by various means,
In the countryside around, several trees were uprooted.
SCENES ON HILLSIDE AND
CENTRAL DISTRICTS.
EVERYWHERE INUNDATED.
The food was undoubtedly one of the most disastrous in the history of Hong- kong, and it is believed by several of the older residents to be exceeded only by the memorable flood of May, 1858. It ́s maintained by some that the torrents which swept down the hillsides 37 years ago were even greater than those of yesterday. But although yesterday's ton Tents were perhaps not so severe, it will -take-days and weeks, in many cases, to clear away the mess of mud, loose soil, and various debris which has been sent
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OTHER DAMAGE,
A great many telephone lines were out of order, some all day. The telephone exchange was kept exceptionally busy by employees telephoning to their offices that they were unable to get to work Many of them failed to get through. Even last night a great number of lines were down or out of order, and especially districts. was this so with regard to the outlying Several trees were struck by lightning in various parts of the Colony,
*** UNHAPPY" VALLEY.
SCENES OF DESOLATION AND
"DISTRESS
Later in the day, a European resident of Happy Valley, made the lame em – phatic statement." I was on the flat roof of my house at about 4 a.m.," he said, trying to force the ever-increasing and water, particularly so at Shamabui- an all too small pipe. Then I saw, what po and Kowloon City. Vehicular traffic I took to be a thunderbolt, which fell was carried on under great difficulties, somewhere at the back of the Valley," and a few buses only-were-plying between between those hills and these facing. these localitics and the Star Ferry.
Causeway Bay."-
TRAFFIC DIFFICULTIES. - At the Kowloon City Road, a mile or so from Kowloon City portion of the road was impassable. Passengers had to change buses at this place. The water had flowed away from the road and left in its-wake-a-huge-mound-of-muð Some half a dozen coolies were engaged in making tracks for the cars and buses, but several of them got stuck and became immovable in their attempt to get across. The "little" taxis suffered considerably in this respect.
At Shamshuipo, a portion of the road gave way under one of the Kowloon Firà Brigade engines,, and hours were taken before the firemen were enabled to re- move it.
ROAD TORN UP.
Nearby the scene of this incident, two longitudinal rents had been made in the roadway, passing over a small stream, which had become a raging river. The rents were some two feet in breadth
A verandahs fell in Yaumati, and
few
The fact that two persons, quite inde- pendent of each other, and living at dif- ferent places, yet agreeing in regard to time and place, make practically the same statement seems to confirm the truth of the story.
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A landslide occurred at the junction, houses near St. Joseph's College was of Stubbs Road and Magazine Gap Road washed-entirely away, and at one time- elosing it to motor traffic. All along the water was several feet high.. up to the Naval Hospital the road was Early in the morning, wading in the filled with earth brought from the hill. floods in the fields at Happy Valley, two In Queen's Road East, near the Grand aged Chinese, a man and a woman, were Theatre, the whole scaffolding of a build-seen absorbed in collecting firewood. ing collapsed and the road was complete ly blocked. Crowds were busy collecting what firewood, they could get and this work proceeded without any interference. from the law.
The Criminal Sessions should have been held yesterday, when there were three Eminor trials to be heard before Mr.
Justice Wood (the Puisne Judge).
Those living on the Peak had to cope with many dificulties in getting down to the City, and a great many of them were
The road to Taihang Village, was block- unable to do so until noon. Mr. Justice Wood got a chair, but on the way downed by falls of earth from the bill-cut one of the coolies slipped. His Lordship tinga thereupon walked down to the Courts of Extensive damage. was done to the Law and presented himself at the Court, Prays East Reclamation through the ready to take the cases. Not one of washing away of the soil by a swirling the jurymen, however, had arrived, and mass of water emerging from the Happy his Lordship therefore adjourned the Valley district, through its only outlet,
the Bowrington Canal: Sessions until Monday next.
The Police reports contained a pars- graph to the effect that the whole of the
Practically, all the houses in the Happy Valley neighbourhood suffered more or less severely from the storm.
WATER RATIONS,
Owing to damage to the pamping station, which has completely cut off all supplies for the time being to Robinson Road, Conduit Road and the Peak districts, it is essential that even for cooking purposes, only the minimum quantity of water should be used.
As far as possible, residents in those districts must temporarily cease. using water for bathrooms, de Every endeavour should be made to -use spring or rain water for washing
and general purposes,
As usual in the time of food, Happy tered "about by the flood on the higher Valley was transformed into a huge lake, levels and carried downwards in a tor-retaining walls collapsed before, the rential rush.
A continuous terrific downpour of rain onrush of water from the bills, and the rail track railings were torn away as di converted hillside roads into roaring they were mere saplings. The scene was a portion of a retaining wall in Hankow cataracts and swept down to the City one of utter confusion. The Valley has Road, Kowloon, collapsed level rocks, earth and debris and flooded frequently suffered from severe floods, the main roads of the whole district with but never on any former occasion has a brown flood to a depth of several feet." the desolation, been so complete. The Peak Road was well-nigh impassable On the Racecourse the surface of the in parts, and many roada in the Peak water reached as high as the railings district have been either washed away Several of the railings were torn away All Peak Roads were transformed into and floated on the lake, eventually being Tau Kok district of Kowloon City, The electric lighting system being put out of der Gun Club hill, Chatham Road, han f. (We have been asked to state in connec
brne on the moving waters into the miniature waterfalls, and several people Bowrington Road Canal, and into the who had the hardihood to walk down to
sea. Near the old scene of damage town, owing to trams not running, did so below the Yeung Woo Nursing Home last at a good deal of risk.
The lower roads down the hillside, such year huge falls swept into the roadway, 4s Garden Road, Ice House Street, Zetend the deep drain which had been lat sisting of four buildings covering an ares | unable to trace anything beyond minor. land Street, Wyndham Street, D'Aguilarterly built was covered with debris.
or blocked with earth, stones or trees.
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CEMETERY WALL COLLAPSES: were
HAVOC BY LIGHTNING. The house of the F. & O. Mess at Mountain View was struck by lightning, the coping of the south-west corner being carried away and the telephone and order Four trees outside-were--alan Istruck
A resident in another district of the Peat also had a scare, being surrounded theby mooke and fumes thought to be due con to lightning striking something. He was
A. TERRIFIC EXPLOSION An alarming explosion, which, miracu lously, was unattended by any casualties, occurred just before i am in the Ma explosion was such, that people in the locality stated it to be even louder than the terrific thunder claps
The scene of the disaster was Kwong Man Loong cracker factory,
ground flood at Shamahaipo Police station was six inches under water."
The approach to Kowloon Hospital was rendered inaccessible owing to heavy collapses on both sides of the road way. A small ares of the retaining wall un- collapsed
of 50 na feet When the storm was at damage to a few things in the house morning, a bus of the Kowloon Bus Co.
All water should be boiled.
tion with the above, that Mesars-AS! Watson & Co, can supply altered water in one pint bottles, half-gallon bottles and three gallon jars to all Peak and other residents who require a supply. Further filtered water can be delivered to resident's door.].
THE TYPHOON.
Heavy deposits of sand and other de bris are to be found on practically every road in the Kowloon district and many motorista are marooned.
Turning the corner at Hunghom this
Street and
its highest, the building was struck by The chimney of Chief Inspector C. F. added across the whole of the road and Wellington Street
lightning, and almost amultaneously the Aris's quarters in Caine Road was also came to rest in the gutter. There were swamped for the greater part of the day with deluges of water. At the top of The wall of the Protestant Cemetery fireworks exploded. This set the building demolished by lightning On being struck no injuries.
A report was current that consider Caine Road, a huge landslide seat tons of gave way for a considerable distance, ablaze, and the fire spread to another it fell through into the sitting room, and yellow earth adrift, to be washed down and the raging torrent which poured small storehouse, the root of which was the Inspector and his family went to the able damage had been done at Mountain
A message from Manila Observatory st at torrential speed. Glenealy was a roar through to the Race stand enclosure near blown of by the explosion. Every house base of the house, until they were later Lodge, H.E. the Governor's summer rpm, to the local American Conniste able to leave. As the remaining portion sidence, but on enquiry we were inform last night, stated that the typhoon was ing waterfall all through the day, and the ticket office carried with it slabs of in the vicinity felt a distinct shock,
of the chimney is considered to be in aed that save for one or two broken win about 120 degrees E. 17 N moving rushing down Wyndham Street quickly granite and cement boulders. A tes
dangerous position, the quarters have dpws and some slight damage nothing West flooded the City and the immediate booth in the vicinity hung grotesquely
had to be vacated.::
aptoward occurred there. vicinity with debris, which was added to against a portion of the race track rail.
At Mount Austin barracks the electric for some hours until the rain abated.ing Away in the middle of the huge
A lake, the Club matsheda stood out like
light was put out of orar. Malay lake-dwellings.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPES.
FLOTSAM OF THE STORM."
Only fifteen feet away some women were sleeping, but none of them were harmed Almost within a few feet some, men, including the Indian watchman were sleeping, and they also were unharmed The Fire Brigade, arrived at 3 am and the flames were extinguished."
A mangled heap of brickwork, bundles ones amouhed like twigs, was to be seen of vari-coloured sodden fireworks, and there yesterday afternoon, when a Daily Preas representative visited the scene
roads were flooded to a great depth, and
had a portion thoroughly intact, and the almost every-shop, and ground floor
building alongside, where further stores offices were inundated by water to a The water issuing from the Valley were kept, and which provided sleeping depth of several feet. All the Chinese flowed into the Bowrington Canal, and quarters for the employees, was untouch stores were flooded in the basement; so forceful was the torrent, that a pored excepting that the windows, had been necessitating employees and others being tion of the road near the Tramway blown-in
QUEEN'S AND DES VŒUX ROADS.
CRAIGENGOWER CLUB. Queen's Road, in part, in fact, all
In the Craigengower Club, the water through the main business quarter and was a few inches deep, and furniture on practically the whole of Des Voeux Road, the verandah was carried away. A por especially in the vicinity of the Post Office tion of it, was later recovered. Tho and Hongkong Hotel, presented an all- day sestie of indescribable confusion, and garden seats, as well as those of the plainly showed the havoc.caused. Both other Clubs in the locality, were smashed. The main building which was first struck cline and deposited near the Tai Wo
BRIDGE IN DANGER.
At West Point things were in describable state of confusion, one big main nullah being badly damaged and choked with stones and earth
When this nullah becane blocked the water overflowed and undermined a near-
According to a previous message, re- ceived at 3.30 yesterday, at 10.10 a.m., the typhoon was E of Luzon, more than 300 miles distant, moving W.
WEATHER EXPORT.
Last night's weather report, forecast, and remarks from the Royal Observa
St. Francis Street, leading from the square, downhill, into Queen's Road Enst, had its surface carried away by the torrente One result was that Spring Queen's Road with Prays East. A cour by house. The police had to go to the Garden Lane became a canal, connecting plete matshed, private ricanas and other rescue of the occupants and shored up odds and ends were swept down the in the premisen,
Agrocer's shop at West Point suffered The typhoon is filling up to the N.W. restaurent, hi
added collapse and was also badly damaged by of Swatow. Another has formed about 1920 1400 miles to the east of Manila. It Queen's Road East, Itself, was under inundation. several feet of water, shopkeepers down The Kennedy Road vicinity presented appears to be moving westward. there baling out as fast as they could a scene of haves. Several landslides po- Local forecast:S.W winds, fresh to but to no purpose. Any flat surface, curred there and the nullahs were moderate, overcast, rain, “improving unless unusually high, was under water. broken. The bottom part of one of the later.