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wind and the abnormally high tide.
121 bathing matsheds were blown down.
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On the island beaches
The Chinese community did not escape so lightly.
The flimsier constructions of lathe, plaster and cement,
and houses in an overdue state of repair offered little resistance to a wind-force of over 150 m.p.h.
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10. In the town itself three houses collapsed in
Western Street, Centre Street, and in Third Street where
one death and five minor casualties resulted.
stocks, in Connaught Road, valued at $100,000, were soaked
and ruined. In Gloucester Road the outside walls of two
houses, the property of Japane se, caved in. In Shaukiwan
two adjoining houses were destroyed, and nearly every house on the sea front sustained some damage.
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Both on the island and in Kowloon, however, it
was the dwellings of a humbler type which suffered most
heavily. The "mat shed" and the brick hut of the coolie
class were rarely immune; but although the damage to
property of this description was almost universal, reports
indicate that in the town itself it occasioned not more
than two or three deaths. A landslide, which enveloped an unnumbered hut in Shaukiwan, caused one of these.
12. The damage suffered by commercial properties
and the public utility companies was of a similar nature.
The south side of the Hong Kong Rubber Factory, a
temporary market in Wong-nei-chung and the Public Works
Department Electrical Workshop in Arsenal Street all
collapsed. Two Chinese were killed near Bay View by
falling electric wires. The Tung Tai Engineering Company's premises in Whitfield Road were damaged to the extent of $3,000. The street lamps bordering Causeway Bay were all either beaten down or twisted into tangled
shapes.
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