FURTHER FLOOD DETAILS.
(Continued from Pags 1).
ning on, the main route from Causeway Bay to the Bank. It le hoped that by this afternoon it will be possible, to run right through, to Whitty Street.
be the only unusual, fosture in
the storm aftermath conditions of the course. No extensive damage appears to have been done to the railings.
The road outside the course is still impassable for pedestrians or vehicles along the borders of the cometeries, where the greatest damage was done by the waters pouring down from the valley behind Wongneichong village
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1926.
beurt quick to notice the immin
ence of disaster, as indicated by the rapid rising of the waters, and had transferred themselves, and whatever fow belongings they could get hold of, to newly-con- structed houses nearby.
Considerable havoc was done to poultry and pigs, and in the same district lator in the morning it was discovered that A small boy was missing from Chi Lai village. It is feared that he was washed out to sea by the strong current awooping along the water-sub- merged roads in this vicinity, dur-
The recently-widened stone nullah "On the Shaukiwan route, care was not able to cope with the have been running all morning as volume and, following the line of far os North Point and it is cleast resistance, the flood found pected that an extension to Quarry for itself a convenient channeling the worst period of the storm. Buy will be possible this after-between the wall of the cemeteries. noon. Owing to Д landslide at and the wall of the Jockey Club
Reports have reached police': stations on the mainland of other
ICE
KEEP YOUR ICE BOX
WELL FILLED.
Taikco. it will be imposible to stands. Brunches were created in damage caused in various parts. WHO WANTS TEPID DRINKS
rus between Quarry Bay and both walls at different places and Shaukiwan for sometime.
the road at this point is now "On the Happy Valley route, littered by a deposit of rubble, curs are being worked via Broul-Some graves were damaged. The "Wood Road,, but it is necessary tram tracks are completely cover- for them to turn back of the ed, and it will take some time for Dragon Motor Gurage and this, the tram service to make the of course, necessitates aingle lino complete circuit of the Valley. working."
QUARRY BAY DISTRICT.
TWO COOLIES KILLED.
Previous reports have not dealt with the extensive damage sustain- ed in the Quarry Bay and Shauki- wan districts, nor with the loss of two lives there resulting from a big landslide.
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DIVERTING THE FLOODS.
WORK OF CLEANING UP CITY
were
Practically all the roads swamped and no village has en- tirely escaped the effects of the rains and floods,
There has been considerable damage suffered in various pars of Kowloon Point, including quite a big landslide it the functions of Nathan and Kimberley Roads.
KİLLED BY LIGHTNING.
SEPOY STRUCK WHILST After the storm, the work of
ASLEEP. repairing its ravages is being en- tered upon in all districts. The.
Although lightning was a most. aftermath of the floods has left
the storm the Colony with a big legacy of dangerous feature in work, and the most important part conditions prevailing on Sunday of this has to do with the mea-night, "the damage it had caused, as shown in earlier reports, was only to buildings, as, for instance, the' cracker factory on the main- land and the police quarters al the Central Police Station.
Yesterday morning some hussures that have been takon to dred tons of rocks and earth came divert the waters from the central down in an avalanche nt Quarry business part of the town and the. Bay" opposite the Taikoo Sugar tidying up, as far as possible of Refinery. After carrying. away the main thoroughfares. Lam Dor's contractor thatshed on the hillside, the mass of debris piled up across the roadway, des- troying tramlines, am over- head wires and causing dam
to, the seawall. Two ngo coolies who were in the matshed lost their lives. Their bodies have not been recovered.
Due to the dainage done to the trim-lines at this point and the blocking up of the roadway, it is atated that the tram service to Shaukiwan may not be resume for some time to come.
At Shaukiwan, pltgsties on the hillside above the village carried away, and some forty pigs
were
are estimated to have been buried by another fall of earth which occurred there.
Whilst pumps are actively en-
A later report, however, reveals gaged in drawing off the water that lightning has at least claim- from the basements of the busied one victim, in the person of of the 2/5 ness buildings, and numerous Sepoy Nihala Ruri, gangs of coolies' are removing the Punjabi Regiment. The soldier Bilt from
was struck whilst sleeping in his quarters at Whitfield Barracks and his death has been reported to the. police. One of the man's com
unions was also struck by light- ning, but was only slightly injur
the roadways, Public Works Department engineers have grappled with the problem of the hillside floods in so far as these have affected the central business district, by striking, as it were, at the fountain head. This. Hesed, mainly in the cleft of Glenealy, where, thirty-six hours after the passage of the storm, the waters are still rushing down almost as strongly as yesterday morning, when they completely flooded the
streets.
OTHER ITEMS.
It is estimated by officials of the Public Works Department that the huge boulder which crashed into The muddy stream that hus and demolished the pumping sta carved for itself a natural channel tion on Pokfulum Rond weighs at throughout the length of the least 3,000 tons. The "nulláh at Shaykiwan
patliway leading village is destroyed and yesterday Glenealy has now been
down from As regards the road to Castle diverted Peak, we learn that this is badly morning its pent-up waters, pres- at a point at Caine Road where, blocked, as two bridges on the far sed for an outlet, overflowed on to the streets and completely flood-Yesterday morning, its waters were side of Tsin Wan have been com- ed the village. A temporary tam
pletely washed away. of earth has since been raise, which has caused the water to be diverted into a more convenient channel.
At-Taihung, both markets have been demolished, whilst every nullah wall there has been broken down.
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The island road from Shaukiwan is blocked in several places:
CONDITIONS AT ABERDEEN.
DAMAGE AT PAPER" MILLS.
pouring over the steps of Glenealy Road. A hastily-thrown-up em bankment has turned the waters aside, to now conveniently into the gutter. At the upper end of Wyndham Street, the stream is now diverted into a manhole.
Wyndham Street and Ice. House Street are now dry, and this has facilitated the cleaning-up opera- tions in the central part of the
town..
A scene of wreckage is to be observed at West Point, where the bursting of a nullah strewed the whole area with masonry and sand.
A number of cars were stuck, axle- high in mud, and were extricated with great difficulty. The tram lines in this district are still hidden under sand, and traffic is being held up for the moment.
In this morning's official reports Whilst dealing with this part of of the effects of the storm, ap- the work, one cannot help refer- peared an item in which it was ring without some regret to the stated by, a blacksmith, living at damage that has been done to Shamshaipo, that his 16-year-old Glenbaly itself. The pathway nephew was washed into a pond" along the nullah has been com- and drowned while endeavouring Latest reports received havo al-pletely destroyed, and a mass of to retrieve some vegetables. The layed fears previously held in re- tangled vegetation now lies at body has not been recovered, gard to the condition of Aberdeen this spot. village. Most of the houses in this village are some four or five feet below the level of the Praya, and they were swamped in the down-" pour of yesterday morning. With the ebbing of the tide, the level of the waters in the inundated areas
was brought down considerably later in the day and the condition
of the village is not so bad now
There was no luas of life..
IN NEW TERRITORIES.
MAIN ROADS BLOCKED.
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Although the full extent of thei
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
WORSE DISASTER THAN YESTERDAY'S."
the
damage in the New Territories self "Fred F.," writing in regard An old resident, signing him- is not yet known, it is believed to the disaster, states that the to be considerable. Bathers will present catastrophe does not, in be deprived of the opportunity of his opinion, compare with The only mishap worth record going to Castle Peak, because the happenings of May, 1889, either ing was that capsed when a mass road is blocked in several places. in amount of rain or damage done. of earth and debris, accumulating About three hundred tons of rock. He says: "If I remember rightly, against the boundary wall of the are lying near Tin Kau. A slide there were some 14 inches of rain Paper Mills, carried a section of has also blocked the Taipo Road, during the hours of 2 am, and the wall away for a distance of about four miles out. several feet. The damage to the
premises of the Paper Mills is 25- timated by the Manager to be in the neighbourhood of a thousand
Part of a
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5.30 a.m. and the damage WIS Ching Lung has been carried concrete bridge at
terrific. away. The district beyond Taipo where the Dairy Farm buildnig "The Gleneally nullah burst at has come off more luckily, as there now stands practically the whole Information from another source Shatin Valley is flooded, and beyond clock tower, the Queen's
appears to be but little damage.
atreet, was torn up right down to states that the collapse at the Pater Mills was probably due to many cattle and pigs were des- Road being some three' to four troyed, also Chinese dwelling feet under debris; in fact the
dollars.
the giving way of the dam of the houses and huts. Afr. E.. S. Car building now occupied by the Yee mills' own private reservoir. The ter, of the Kowloon-Canton Rail Sang Fat Co., was then the Hong watera carried down a mass of way, examined the railway track kong Club and the debris, was level rubble and desposited it against as far as the wall until the weight was too hut, except for a slight fall in
the border yesterday, with the ground floor. "much for it to stand.
the first cutting, there was no
The Albany mollah, which rụng damage, This has now been past the Murray Barracks, and cleared, and the trains are run- which in those days went straight. hing as usual.
down to the water front past the Royal Artillery Barracks running under a bridge which formed the Queen's Road Eaat at that point, was torn up completely taking the bridge with it and a part of the COLLAPSE OF HUTS.
Artillery Tailors' shop... The Undermined by the heavy rains, magazine nullah which comes some twenty old huts of the usual down just boforo Arsenal Strost luft village typo collapsed' at 'Kowloon was algo blocked and a strong Taal at 4.80 yesterday morning, flood was over-running the Queen's Provious to this, the villagers had (Continued on Page 9).
AT THE RACECOURSE.
DAMAGE TO THE CEMETERIES.
The Race Course has partially resumed fts, normal aspect after being completely submerged by the floods of yesterday morning Deposits of sand here and thero on the golf course, and this appears to
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