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SUPPLEMENT TO THE
Hong Kong Daily Press.
THE TYPHOON.
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, 5тa SEPTEMBER, 1871.
Vagaries of some of these boats were unpleasant. reach towards Capeingmoon appear the masts The yachts laid up in ordinary suffered but The typhoon which has been prophesied for Opposite the Pottinger Street Wharf, Inspector and yards of ships which have dragged their an trivial damage, losing merely portions of their some time came at last on Saturday night, themes, who was coming down towards the bar. chora, far from their original bertha,
at roofing. Messrs Jardine's garden entered bour, was suddenly confronted by a great, in- Fastward, the devastation is less apparent, terribly, the trees, bamboos, and ebrats being weather throughout the day baving been very distinct mass, apparently bound for the Queen's though there has been enough of it. Close to torn and wrenched in every direction. A cor thick, and the water tore and more turbulent. Band at an astonishing rate of speed. He had the Military Store are two or three suukon rugated iron building at Mr. Jack's slip was As early as 11 z.m. the waves in the harbour time to get out of the way in an open doorway, jacke, presenting a most melancholy appearanroofed and rendered useless, while one of had assumed very threatening dimensions, and and has the satisfaction of seeing the said mass. Ance. Shops bave been unroofed everywhere, the houses saveral of the smaller craft at anchor were which proved to bow abip's gig, pass him like an
in the Bazzar had its fruat tossing about in a tanner by no means reus-
but this is trifling compared with the loss completely driven in. The Sugar Refinery suring to those who foresaw the coming storm. elsewhere, all the streets and ways leading down details are given.
express train. Similar effects wore shaerved of life which has taken place. At Wanchai and Distillery suffered but litde, the Pr
mee have been taken ya Wal at the former being prostrate. However, the wind did not greatly increase ntil towards evening, but at about 5.30 began
to the Praya being ultimately strewed with tend to the Civil Hospital from East Point, while the latter had their godown" doon blown house and the remains of boats, those awinous gusta, growing by degrees incre
having been smashed between two cargo-boats and portion of their cooperage entiled. The and more violent, which are always looked uponly to contemplate.
The scene ou Sazdag morning was mielanebo. which one together broadside on. Many more destruction of boating in Censoway Bay was
From Peddar's Wharf have been rided, and unknown numbers injured very beary. as a sure prosage of a typhoon, if presage were
One large Swatow job was required after the indications already given by
westward for several hundred yards the Praga in the same way, and yesterday, at McDonald's capsized opposite the residence of the Sugar is demolisteð. be faithful barometer. The following readings far as
Like Troy, the Praya was, as pier, Wanchai, the Chinese were engaged in fish. Boilore at the Refuery, driving the head” of are given
portion of it is concerned. The wailing up the bodies of three rnfortunate persons. her maiureast through the wall of the house. is an unshapely beap of granite, buge blocks of The police station at Wanchi was crowded She was full of passengers, who were all res- which have been carried by the impetuous during the night with Chinese seeking a eheltered and kindly cared for, though the poor violence of the sex to distances of twenty and from the storin, Lupector Orley was energetic follows had lost their all in the wreck. From thirty feet from their original locations. But in saving life at McDonald's pier, and in this the North-eastern corner of the Refinery, up not only have the atunes been displaced, he was ably assisted by fre Europeans who the buy past the Distillery, the Praps wall, but large gaps have been formed, reach tendered their service in the good cause. The which was a dead les, is lined with wreck of ing almost to the verandahs of the houses, loss of lite appears to have been wat serious Yes junts, cargo boats and other native ship. Tis is particularly the CBSO between at West Point, Wanchai, Aberdeen, and Bowke. ping, in some places three and four drep. The Peddar's wharf and the P. & O. offices. Farther wan. The latter station, especially seems to bare Stean-launch as we found on bet kaut to the west the damage dono is great, but the been the accus of great disaster, exposed as it is ends, but it is believed bas enstained no serions ¦ distraction of the Pran lese complete them into the full force of the northerly wind. Sampaus injury.
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y injared, as indeed are til the prominent stone soarsely any part standing, livee last, plunder dragged pearly as far as the P. & factory at coustractions, while the woudon piers, through bumense, and all capped by a desperate attack West Point. The French barque drahe fold which the water has free passage, are unbort on the police on the part of the plunderers: the Madras, and the French abip Nancy wh except as regards the teach up of the plank these are some of the things which are report fouled by the Ottawa. Batteuing her beate and ing, which is easily remedied. Cluse to Peddar's ¦ ed from Sowkeway. Que couetable received a damaging her stern. The P. & U. Co. also lost a wharf a large Government lighter came ashore serious wound on the shoulder during the fight, lighter with a cargo of coals. It is and to haro to aud sank. Her gunwales are now Aush with and seventeen of the disorderly ruthans have record the loss of the Nancy's gallant master, the water's edge, and one of her ropes is coiled been arrested. Not content with plauder, these Captain Mangah She was fouled by a P. & 0. round the telegraph wire which is broken fue. wretches attempted to take the lives of the ass stanser, thought to be the Ottawa, and having At 6.30 the cyclone bad fairly taken posses.ther east. Another Government lighter sank fortunate junk people, in protecting whom the parted her cable and chifted towards Cap- sion, and its violence increased rapidly, until at io uid-channel, of Messrs. Donglea Lapraik & police turned on themselves the tide of their singmoon, was running ashore, when the crew abent. 9.30 or 10 the Praya was flooded. The Co's Wharf, Opposite this spot too are visible violence. We noteda fine brig driven on shore managed to get ont a rope. By means of this wind however wea not then
highest, the masts of a junk which went down with a at the back of the native Gnarl-house. She was every man got off safely, and even the Captain's though the appearance of the sea might have led volcable Chinobew cargo. Proceeding west nexly bought and newly-masted by Messrs. W. dop was taken ashore before he left. As be to that conclusion, for us it was high water at ward, one finds the destruction of native graft D. Spratt & Co. On the coach usar the Commis dido, Captain Mangat dropped from the rope, that tits the tide naturally favoured the more and more apparent. East of the P. & 0. sariat maller schooner ties high and dry, disappeared, and has not since been seen. cyclone in impelling the water far over be seng.downs (whose tiles bare been blown off) un Four Government lighters are susk abreast The Nancy, half laden with a valuable cargo wall and well on its way towards the Queen's censione whole sampan and pleaty of of the Dock-yard, one of them being sebore. for Bombay, is totally lost, Details of this Road. The spent on the band at this time was debris attest the wholesale devastation which One of them sauk about four feet from the lamentable affair are given in the body of the one which beggare description. Unlike the has come apou the best population. The Can-American ship Florella, and but for the ener paper. typhoon of last year this one necarred at night, tou steamer wharf is not extensively injured, getic help of Captain Peabody, who hove lines On shore the casualties have of course been and its grandeur was enhanced by the "in though at one time during the wight it was in her crew, many of them sonid have gone fewer, but bave still been serious. The only Cumerable effects of the darkness. The encr danger of being entirely carried away by a down in the lighter. One of these ghters tosses of life get heard of in addition to those Diode waves appened yet more gigantic from large iron ship wirien drifted down upon is. suk on top of the chains of the barge montioned above as occurring at East Point, heir indistinctress, al sparkling rough. Although almost within arm's length of the Vernica. About a hundred Chinese boat being these resulting from the fall of some ont with the phosphorescent light of these wharf the ship wont clear, and the only meu and botwomen were driven aabore Chinese houses in Supingpoon, which killed and 8023 formed alue a spectacle of great injury done
Lie abeulute effect t Lie Dockyard during the sight,
badly injured several vatives. Mutabeds, grandeur and great bounty. Added to of the water, which upon a wooden pier one womau belonging to oue of the sunken wherever they existed, exist no longer, Ulis was the picturesque appearat de of Los apparently very little power.
On lighters, half a dozen of whose crews are bed, and thatsover the Seamen's Church, the shipping, the only visible portion of the eastern side of the wharf, however, miasing. Abroast the Dockyard a staali two. which consisted of sombre bulls, aut brilliant Messrs. Hook's lighter Adeancs lies in a forlorn mussted yacht has gone down, and her masts are are destroyed almost entirely, while the lights, now appearing for an instant, then condition, level with the water. The Despatch sticking up out of the water.
bambooe have fored some courses of the hidden behind a giant wave, the dark ball appears to have sustained no great injury, as
At Baat Punttheglass fell on Saturday slowly, brickwork of the latter building out of the rolling, the gay light flickering, at times dim. she rides at ancher in a safe enough position, but surely, with abort heavy puffs. From the perpendicular. Tho matshed on Government med by the intervening apay, and again shin- The Pacific Mail Wharf, bas heen somewhat Millary boundary the line of the Praga cast House is alas demolianed, and two or thren ing out with a brillise sathicient to indicate injured in its planking, but repairs are being ward was entirely occupist all day by juan Europeans appeared on the roof at 4.30 p.m. to those on shore the exact position of the promptly executed. The Amaries rides at ber merable native bouts of all sizes and clesses, ou Sunday, looking apparently for damages, yeast. Unfortunately these inconstant lights anchor slightly weather-heaten, and with an in- striving to obtain shelter either in the lagoon and portending Supplementary Estimates. If by no means retained the same position, but significant list to starboard, but otherwise as it to the northward of the race course of in the Surveyor General was on the look out showed many of them too clearly by their nothing bad happened. Further west the Causeway Bay, very many cane to grief in the there. other officials were not less energetic westward motion that the dragging of anchors travide and Cornuria are both dismasted, passage, and the boud was covered with frag- after the cessation of the storm. The bad already commenced. The ateamer to the former ashore with stern badly knocked ments and debris, while accidents of a seriole | Lical Governor, the Attorney Genera), Was seen to drift rapidly in the direction of about, and on Saeday afternoon the pomps nature were abundant. One beat in trying and the Colonial Secretary were abroad, can- Peddar's wharf, (which at this time wris were vigouropaly at work. Still farther west,
round the corner of Messrs. Wahne, Smith &templating the ruin wrought by other hands indicated only by a more violent soothing the dreduction native boats increases, and C's premises into Causeway Bay was capsized, than theirs. In every part of the town where of the water), and by 11 o'clock abe One may see frequent intervals a wretched and some of her crew, consisting of 12 persous, there were troea, there is now plentiful debris. had reached a point nearly opposite the family sheltered in a dilapidated sampan, the were with great diffealty saved by Mr. Smith, In Queen's Road, Wyndham Street, Staunton wharf and at a remarkably short distance women bewailing the loss of their relations or who took 9 in bis gig; one old woman and two | Street, Robinson Road, and elsewhere, from shore. Here she appeared to pall op, their dwellings, and the children weeping in chidren were washed away by the sea before branches are strewed athwart the either because she got steam up or beetse her concert, probably without knowing exactly why the boat could reach them. The glass continued and leaves and young wood are scattered anchore held, but at all events she was there on The miscry amongst these boat people must be to fall rapidly towards dark. At 11 p.m., when in the gutters. Not least remarkable of the Sunday morning. The Chinz, a short distance very great, those even who have been fortunate reached its lowest point, the gale was at its comical signs is that of the torre clock, which farther west, gems to have bold out tearfully, enough to save their boats, which are their height, and blew aarder than bas been experien-stoppet (as it tells you at 4.25 am, in utter her position being scarcely changed, but the only habitations, having lost a great portioned in Hongkong for many years. The Brig disgust at the kind of weather it was called Cleator drifted down into dangerotia prosimity. their property, either accidentally swept or Seline Jane wondriven on shore near the Hospital apon to face. If, however, one looks at the The dear, a little farther out, had apparent necessarily thrown overboard. Indeed the big Schoover victa is reported munk at her moor northern face, the reason is apparent, as the ly plenty of elbow room, while the Shaftesbury, of the long bay waching nearly to the Sailorsings. Mr. Speechy's Steam Launch found glass bas been smashed in and probably bas some distance east of theen, riding to an extra- Home was thronged with Chinamen, acme graphee way to the bottom, while the new steamer deranged the mechanism. Almost any resident ordinary tengil of cable, would seem to have pling from boats, some diving, for the number- just launched by Messrs. Hook & Son, had her could testify that this result was not singular. escaped danger altogether, The little bulk less articles, invaluable to these poor people, stera stove in and was filed with water, as the houses bare suffered seriously from the whib bas been red as a small-pux convalescent which strew the botton at this particular point. Her engines not having been placed in ber; breaking of glass and venetians, and the dos- Hospital has unde a voyage during the night, Near the Sailors' Homo there is a fine jook with she tuated dash with the water's edge, and traction and fall tiles. Altogether the and has brought up at a not very safe distance a very seedy bottom, ashore, and fearfully was saved. The Pruga was terribly eat "devastation wrought by the tpyhoon, of Sep- from the Join Adam, having been partially smashed, while just beyond there is another and at the proposed site of the new Fier Ctember 2nd, 1871, has not been matched for unroofed during her progresA. Throughout full of water, apparently loaded with soce valu pany, the sea wall was entirely washed away, several years.
the early part of the night, espraially during able cargo. About this point, bt farther out in carrying with it about half the marriage road, the flood-tide, the Praya was doinged, and the the harbour, are two Pesch, the Joseph Clark The wooden Fier at the old McGregor " amalier eeaft were pind on top of it with utter and Jeanie firstman, broadside on togelber, and house was completely destroyed at the store disregard to arrangement of any kind. The untually damaged, while as far as the eye can end, leasing a mass of rains to mark its site. Bsa, Wyndharu Street, Bouzkorg.
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