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TYPHOON.
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beavily, with a beam wind which threatened every minute to turn her over. Instead of sheltering the top-heavy Yuot On, remained under way, to make port with very little damage.
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Yuet On's Story. Captain G. A. Cormant, of s.a. Yuet On, stated that the vessel left Canton at 8 a.m. on Saturday with 400 passengers and 120 tons. of cargo. The barometer at this time was normal, but on approach- ing Ma Chau, a gale arose and. nt noon it was decided to take shel- ter of the northern point off Lan! Tau. At this time the ship was
It was observed that shortly after the sailing of the San Nam Hot from Kongmoon, the Railway Pier collapsed during the blow, while a number of matsheds oc cupied by troops were lifted bodily In the air and deposited on a train lying in the station,
Reports by Canton steamers are to the effect that no apparent lamage has been done by the ty- phoon.
GUNBOAT CAPSIZES.
MONDAY.
unsafe, but they Havo since been ex- were burled on the lower floor and amined by an architect; and pro-when extricated were found to be
dond. nounced sound..
AUGUST 22, 1927.
AT CAUSEWAY BAY,
All Small Craft Safe In the Shelter.
The typhoon shelter at Cause-
One or two of the other victims During the storm great bulges appeared in the walls, and in one were injured and received treat- place a small fountain of water ment at the Kwong Wah hospital:
Man Electrocuted. came through the floor caused, it
burst drain. There was only one accident is believed, by a
tained there was very little Crucks were observed in the roof reported from the Yaumati dis-way Bay was congested by native which let in water. When the con-trict, an elderly Chinese losing his crafts and so far as can be ascer- that life by electrocution while walking damage. At the height of the ditions became
in Shanghai Street, at about eight blow, a small barge shipped water
So severe
it was feared the building would collapse.
It later appenred that the bulges in the walls were caused by the plaster, the walls themselves being
Round.
The Peak Hotel. In common with other places, the Peak Hotel sprung a leak in the roof, which necessitaled the two removal of residents from rooms on the top floor to another part of the building. It is thought that the damage to the roof is not
experiencing confused sens, with CHINESE VESSEL SUNK NEAR of a very serious character.
high winds and violent rainstorms,
with the glass, falling to 29.03.
Both anchors were dragging with
90 fathoms on one and 75 fathoms
YAUMATI
ότι
Several windows were smashed,
and trees in the roof garden were
blown away.
500,
o'clock on Saturday night.
lost.
The victim, a man of about 45 and was sunk, but no lives were On the Sookunpoo ground, the years of age, was walking in front
lightning.
instant-well as the uncovered stand on the of No. 262, when he was struck by long covered football mintshed as aneous and the body was taken to sides of the South China Football Kowloon Mortuary.
Death Was
ground were torn to pieces. Curiously enough, both the mat- sheds erected by the United Ser- vice Recreation Club and the Indian Recreation Club remained intact.
'were taking shelter
The collapse occurred at about heavy wind and rain. 3 o'clock a boulder weighing ap tons becomin proximately six dislodged from the hillside and occupied by two Chinese females rolling through the back of a hut REPULSE BAY WRECKAGE. of the farming class. The women
WOMEN KILLED. Dislodged Boulder Crashes
The Lee Gardens sustained very Into Ilut.
little damage. The entrance From a village bordering the canopy, consisting of corrugated West side of the Kowloon Tong iron sheeting supported by iron settlement, comes a report of the poles appeared to have weathered With only two watchmen
The residence of Mr. W. Jack deaths of two Chinese women, who the typhoon fairly well, but during the blow the structure was severe- 616 The Peak, was also
were killed by a huge boulder only shaken and it was thought that on the other, while both engines board, the Chinese gunboat which were steaming ahead.
has been laid up in the Yaumati heavily damaged. The roof was
from -the
Passers-by as well as those em- During the height of the blew, Shelter for some considerable partially torn down and the win-Saturday afternoon while they sooner or inter it would fall.
of the verandah
ployed at the Lee Gardens, gave the sun deck, wind screens and time, dragged its anchor during dow frames
it a wide berth. Iron shelter doors were blown the heavy winds and after being were blown in and the contents away, while the mast went over-washed against the breakwater completely ruined. The servants' quartera were also extensively board, together with boat covers capsized and sunk.
The incident and all loose deck fittings.
was reported to damaged, Mrs. Jackson met with The passengers behaved well the Police by a watchman placed a somewhat serious accident, have throughout and were visited perio-on board by order of the Supreme in one of her wrists severely cut dically by the ship's officers, who Court. It appears that the Ching by shuttered glass.
washed Most of the Peak residences were assured them that there was no Hoi dragged and was
Typhoon damaged in one way or anather. danger. Caplain Cormant now con-against the Yaumati
mess suffered fesses that he was far from feel-breakwater at about 1 o'clock yes The Rank Line
badly, the windows being broken,
The storm wrought enormous ing safe, the blow being the worst terday morning.
the among Seeing the plight of the boatrain and wind doing so much havoc in his experience of 30 years at
the small on
Repulse on board, that only two rooms remained ha-were the sole occupants of the havoc
shed. which is one of sea, and this, be it observed, in-and whoever might be
beach, of seven huts. The ing
und habitation cludes the 1906 lyphoon' in these a launch of the Bank Ling, after bitable.
some careful manoeuvres,
The roofs of the Government alongside and took the two watch- Homestead flats, the residences of heavy rain had mule the earth on sands of dollars will have
the damage. the hillside loose and the rock be, spent to repair Mr. D.G.M. Bernard, men off.
of Mr. W.C. Burnett and many other went crashing through one of the The majority of the structures very few escaping serious places, were considerably damag-seven huts, its flight being check- have been completely ruined, only damage. The new public at- ed. A. No. 527 Magazine Gap the ed after striking the rear of the chimney was badly cracked.
The bodies of the women were sheds have been wrecked: Yester- Several boulders were displaced in
day many of the owners were on the beach recovering furniture and fittings and endeavouring to make the sheds habitable.
waters.
On the West River, Among vessels arriving to re- late typhoon experiences was the On Lee from Kongmoon. She was
went
In making his report to the Police, one of the men stated that they had no sooner gone aboard to have sailed from that port at the Bank Line launch, and had 3.30 p.m. on Saturday, but was just cast off, when they saw the unable to do so, owing to the high Ching Hoi capsize. vind. A departure was eventual- ly made at 4.45 am, on Sunday and she arrived here at 1.15 p.m. yesterday. ".
The San Nam Hoi left Kong- moon one hour earlier but was
PEAK COLLAPSE.
VOEUX VILLAS.
compelled to anchor for shelter ALARMING INCIDENT 'AT DES arriving here practically simul- taneously with the On Lee, The Commissioner of Customs, from
The most serious incident re- Kongmoon was a passenger on
corded in the Peak district, where board the San Nam loi.
On stay- the full force of the hurricane The
-Wing 9.3.
Friday night at was fell, was at Mount Kellett, ed. over
out setting
for where a large portion of the front Wangmoon, Hongkong
o'clock wall of Des Voeux Villas, Nos. 165, at five Saturday morning. She arrived collapsed the whole width of the in harbour at about half past nine verandah. Forunately, there were and went to the typhoon auchano casualties,
However, The house is occupied by Mr. age at Stonecutters. the violence of the wind was such and Mrs. 316. Noll and their two that wooden awning battens were children, and Mr. and torn off and her mast wrenched Douglas. All were at home at the out. She was at her wharf again time of the mishap. The adjoin yesterday, but in the afternoon house, No. 16, occupied by the left for a Chinese dock at Mr. and Mrs. B.I.C. Hallowes as Kowloon Bay for repairs.
suffered extensive damage to the roof and walls.
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this district. Fences were blown down and trees uprooted,
were crushed to death, their bodies Enormous Damage to Bathing being laken to the Kowloon Mor-
tuary.
The two unfortunate
shed.
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Women
later extricated from beneath the
rock..
The row of huts, which are all necupied by farmers, is situated on the west side of the railway track
KOWLOON INCIDENTS. at the extreme end of the Kowloon
CASUALTIES ON THE PENINSULA.
The brief information of the resie by an Indian constable of a European who fell into the har- our near the Star Ferry Wharf as contained in a report made at the Police Station yesterday mor- ning by the constable.
The European, whose name the Constable did not ascertain, had kong and accidentally fell into the apparently returned from Hong- harbour. An Indian constable who was
on duty at the Ferry, west to the water's edge and unting his turban, threw it to the man who was thus brought fafely ashore.
The European was none the worse for his experience and did not require professional services.
Teng settlement facing the tun- nel. The district is known as Chuen Lung Hang.
WANCHAI TO SHAUKIWAŃ.
STORM'S HAVOC TO MATSHEDS.
tr
a
Matsheds.
matsheds Bay bath- many thou- to
The roof on the Hongkong Hotel Garage suffered severely.
Beauty Spot Marred. Repulse Bay Hotel and Annexe appear to have escaped, but the picturesque avenue of treca on the private motor road leading to the building, has been badly scarred, and much damage has been done to the plants in the garden.
Between Pokfulama and Repulse of the road are Bay the sides littered with wrecked matsheds, The Naval Hospital had part of At Deep Water Bay, the sex the roadway waves came Over torn down when a huge tree in-
near the golf course, and covered side the hospital's compounds was it in one place with over six inches its wall in Morrison Gap Road
p-rooted falling across the wall, of sand. Much of the sand and Near the Monument another tree edge of the golf course. The road just outside the Wesleyan Chapel.debris were carried over to the was up-rooted and a house opposite was cleared for traffic early yes- the monument, used by the Chinterday morning. Athletic Club as a changing room, bad part of its verandah torn off.
The roof of the Green Island Cemer Company building beyond Aberdeen was seriously damaged.
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NORTH POINT. HAVOC.
Chinese Bathing Matsheds Carried Away.
Safe Shelter Found.
Mr. and Mrs., Noll and their
The recently widened nullah at Both the Tai Lee and Anjou children occupy the ground Boar
the village bend functioned well, went to shelter at Stonecutters of No. 165,, while Mr. and Mrs.
Bus Blown Over..
but at 2p.m., the narrow section Island and as a result damage suf- Douglas live upstairs, all pre-
From an early hour the buses on under the public stands of the Club, became fered. The Tai Lee had the best parations were made for the blow the mainland experienced difficulty Hongkong Jocke part of her fore part in the way be nothing exceptional occurred of awning stanchions and battens until the storm was at its height.in travelling to and from the choked by the silt which the nullah Ferry, and shortly after the fer carried down and muddy water torn away together with her mast Then the wailing wind, the heavies ceased running most of the overflowed on to the race track. while the Anjou suffered the loss rain and ominous creakings and of her mast and had her brige crashes decided the occupants to vehicles were also taken off the Later it broke over the golf course run. The Chinese Bus Co, how and the valley was again a, lake. A down from awning stanchions ripped retire to the basement.
Chong village and vice until it was found impractic Wong Nei Both ships lost a quantity of deck There they sheltered, whilst the ever, maintained a curtailed ser-hut came swirling
the course. It was ethe Kwong Ying was damaged storm continued to rage with unable and they too stopped running lodged on
an- Shortly before the Kowloon quickly pursued by a number of in the forepart, losing woodwork abated fury. Considerable
xiety and alarm' was felt, and it
Motor Bus Co.'s vehicles villagers and recovered. and awning fixtures.
known that considerable
the taken off
road. water receded rapidly from the Among other ships seeking was
of their vehicle turn-golf course, leaving surprisingly | Association, were carried away by shelter at Stonecutters Island were damage was being done. but the
1 little mud. over at the junction. the Kwong Sai, Kwong Tung and extent of this was not discovered
Nathan and Salisbury Roads, be- Tai Hing, but they suffered no until the gale had abated. damage.
gear.
Sometime between five and six At Wangmoon, the Tai Ming took o'clock, Mr. Noll ventured out, to shelter together with the Kochowiscover le his alarm that the wall and although the former vessel the side of the house facing the dragged, she came to rest in a harbour had completely rollapsed Wreekage was strewn about in safe berth and both boats were able to get under way without great confusion. The rooms were casualty and arrived here yester-in great disorder, bricks, verandah day afternoon. The Kwong Hing windows and frames being piled the furniture," which sheltering at Wangmben reported up
had been considerably damaged. no damage.
There was evidence of wafer and mud everywhere, and the place was entirely uninhabitable.
on
Shipping News in Brief. 'Most wharves on the Hongkong
In the adjoining house, waterfront suffered damage the
an exciting and worst being the Hing Kee Wharf Hallows had
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Mr.
Avere
one
Sport Matsheds Down..
The
One table, a few chairs, two cases of acrated waters, a few towels and bathing costumes, were the only things retrieved when the matsheds belonging to the Chinese Bathing Club and the South China
the typhoon shortly before 2 p.m. on Saturday.
The two clubs have a member- ing blown on to the pathway on The wooden fence around the the corner opposite the N.A.A.F.I. paddock of the Jockey Club to-ship of over five hundred, and it Fartunately there were no pas-gether with part of the railings is learned that most of the mem- engers in the bus, both the driver leading from the paddock to the bers keep their bathing necessities grass track, was carried away. A in the matsheds. The loss sus- and the conducter being unhurt.
tained by these two clubs, must be temporary roofing erected by con- tractors who were carrying out extremely heavy, for each matshed repairs to one of members' private had a tuckshop, electric fittings, stands, was also blown away.
a number of chairs and The matshed erected by the shower baths fixtures, and many Hongkong Baseball Club was torn other conveniences. down, the whole now being a mass of debris. Another matshed at
On the Kowloon City Road, an-
case there were in the first other bus was blown over, but as
casualties.
TWO CHILDREN KILLED.
Six People Buried When a House Callapses.
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off Wing Lok Street, where plank strenuous time. In an effort to windows and doors ing was torn up in several places. keep the
intact, he piled baths. beds and
Two children lost their lives It is understood that the Con-articles of furniture against them, when a house, No. 199 Nam fucius and, the Chinese Macao but all his labours proved to be Chung Street, collapsed on Satur- steamer Su Nan dragged their an-of no avail when the roof gave in day afternoon. The house is one chors when sheltering of Stone- and the water poured through, of a block of three, and being the cutters island, but neither suf- doing a lot of damage. fered damage. It is probably one
"of these vessels, reported by s.s.
Tai Lee as drifting, but whose
identity was not known,
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THE PEAK HOSPITAL.
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BULGING WALLS. CAUSE FEARS.
tables,
The Chinese Bathing Club had a specially constructed bridge,
Happy Valley, the servants' quar- and a raft which was so arranged
ters of the Civil Service Cricket that diving from different heights Club, was partially demolished. can be enjoyed. Not a vestige of The cricket score board was torn any of these remained when a to pieces and hurled over the representative of the S. C. M.
Post visited the scene. Course.
On the Reclamation, Behind the caretaker's matshed
Club
A Mass of Debris.
on the Race Course, which is just Besides these two matsheds, two in front of the Government quar- other bathing sheds, one erected ters, a tree was up-rooted and aby the Sun Company at North end one, received the full force telephone post standing between of the gale. The house stands op- the Craigengower Cricket ClubPoint for the use of their staff and another which is known at the posite the new ginger factory on and the Police Recreation
Taikoo Bathing shed, were blown the road to Laichikok and yester bent to the ground. The telephone away. A raft, which belonged to of Race the Chinese Bathing Club, is now day was a scene of interest for posts in the vicinity large crowds, of Chinese.
Course were all faore or less bent lying on the beach about a quarter H.M.S. Moorhen left Kongmoan
The house is a two storey by the wind. at 8 am. on Saturday morning to
building. The roof was first torn A good deal of silt was carried of a mile away from its original
postion. take sheller on receipt of a mex-
off. The outer wall then collapsed down from the hillside above the
The Ming Yuen Gardens, once a sage from Hongkong that a ty
and the debris fell through from Yeung Wo Nursing Home. A con- favourite summer resort of the phoon was approaching and would
Enquiries at the Peak Hospital, the top storey and brought the tractor's matshed in that locality Chinese, suffered extensive dam- pass dangerously near the Colony.
elicited the, information that an whole of the rear of the house was blown away. Much damage age from Saturday'a blow. Chairs was also done to the new nullah and tables were all blown over, Burometer readings at Wang-extremely anxious time was spent down.
There were six people inside at which is being constructed.
and most of the table tops, which moon were 29.07 by s.s. Kochow, in the afternoon, when the anfety
The Praya East Reclamation 29.00 by the .s. Tai Ming; at of the building was feared to such the dime, including, four children.
space, which had been covered Kongmoon, 29.00 by On Lee; at an extent that preparations were All were buried under a mass of was littered with tiles and bricks are made of marble and stone masonry, and the Kowloon Fire which, before the storm; formed were broken. A very large open Ma Chau, 29,08 by Yuct On, atmade to remove the patients at a
moment's notice in ambulances. Brigade was called to extricate parts of roofs and walls of the with a corrugated iron roof, and open air Tiger Island, 29.38 by Taishan,"
was them. Owing to the mass of number of huts standing on the which was used as an A press representative Ships arriving yesterday report told that the building "rock- material it was some time before reclaimed land. Extensive damage theatre a few years ago, now con
and tains nothing but a mass of debris, that a large quantity of wreckage, ed," that the floors "moved up and any of them were located, but a was done to the matsheds
woman and two children other wooden structures, including comprising parts of the roof, obviously of junks and sampans, down like a concertina," and the man, a
were brought out alive.. Two Messra. Kwong Sang Hong's shed
(Continued on Paga 14.) is floating and being picked up in walls bulged. At the time It was Capsuimun Pass.
feared that the foundations were other children, aged four or five, on the Reclamation."
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