Houses Wrecked
At Taipo Hui it is conservatively
estimated that 80 per cent, of the NARROW ESCAPE
houses were demolished partially or completely, and it may be one or two days before all the debris can
be removed and a proper estimate be RURAL ORPHANAGE had of the exact number of villagers killed.
About 300 yards from the Taipo Bridge, which was badly torn up, where repairs were still under pro- gress yesterday afternoon, 30 sam- pans and fishing boats were washed ashore to a distance of 200 yards from the beach. A number of fishermen were there attending to their dead, and salvaging what was left of their meagre belongings.
One of them said that some 40 sampan people were killed when their craft were wrecked.
Labourers worked on the damaged bridge throughout the day, and it is expected that it will be available for motor-traffic by this afternoon or to-morrow, according to a workman who was questioned.
NEW
INSTRUMENT
Anemograph to Register Winds Up to 200 M.P.H.
The Royal Observatory was unable to register the maximum wind velocity during the height! of the typhoon, due to the fact that its instrument does not
per hour.
take records higher than 125 miles Whilst this is more than sufficient for all normal purposes, it has long been realised that a better
instrument is desirable.
Government has now, however, undertaken to supply the Observa- tory with an instrument capable of registering gusts up to 200 m.p.h. This, it is understood, will be avail- able next year.
ALMOST RAZED
SMALL BOYS HAVE
HARROWING TIME
FOOD SHORTAGE
| A SHORE SURVEY
Some Damage Done At Queen Mary Hospital
BUILDINGS FLOODED
The Queen Mary Hospital stood up to the storm fairly well, but the seventh floor was littered with glass A and portions of ceiling, presenting the appearance of having come through a bombardment.
The operating theatre was swept clean.
POST OFFICE FLOODED Flooded to a depth of over one foot during the typhoon of Wednes- day night, the Post Office basement Some 20 Chinese orphans and their presented the appearance of an in- two Chinese teachers had a narrow door swimming pool in the morning, were still working at escape from death or serious injury and firemen when their school room and wooden draining the building yesterday.
Fortunately there were only about dormitory, situated near the 13th. milestone
Taipo Road, were 40 mail bags in the basement instead of the usual five or six hundred, so
on
wrecked by the typhoon.
The Taipo Rural Orphanage for that only a few bags were wetted boys, managed by the Chinese An- and these not extensively. The par- glican Church Body in Hongkong, cel mail had been raised beyond the with Bishop Hall as Chairman, and reach of the water. another orphanage school for girls about 100 yards away, managed by the Church Missionary Society, were both affected, but the Rural Or- phanage suffered very severely and its two buildings were partly demo-
lished.
MINOR DESTRUCTION
But P.W.D. Bill Will Be Very Large in Aggregate
of dollars.
Interviewed yesterday by a re- porter of the S. C. M. Post, the
Inquiry at the Public Works De- teacher, a Mr. Li, said that when he|partment revealed that while no ma- realised that their house, which was jor damage had been done to pro- recently erected at a cost of $800, perty there was a considerable amount was in imminent danger, he called of minor work necessitated
by the all the boys together with a view to typhoon which had damaged most taking them to the girl's school, as roofs, blown out windows and doors. the latter house was considered more In the aggregate the repair bill will substantial. As the teachers and run into some hundreds of thousands boys were waiting outside the dormi- tory for a chance to dash to the near- the two Rural by place of safety, Orphanage houses collapsed. With the typhoon at its height it was found impossible to get to the neigh- 'bouring building, and in fact the teachers had a hard time getting the 20 small boys together. One of the little fellows was blown off his feet, and in rescuing the child Mr. Li suffered an injury to his wrist, which was bandaged yesterday.
Later in the morning, Miss Vincent and Miss K. Langford went out in their swimming costumes from the girls' school to bring all the 20 boys to safety. Apart from receiving a bad shock, none of the children suf- fered injuries.
"But the most unfortunate thing is that the new school was opened on September 1, and the very same evening the two houses were smashed up by the typhoon," said the teacher. Food Shortage
GOUGH HILL STATION The Chinese police quarters at Gough Hill Station were swept away by the wind during Wednesday night.
RAILWAY DAMAGE
Canton-Kowloon Track Quite Impassable
FORTNIGHT FOR REPAIRS
Obviously hit by a great wave during the height of the typhoon in the early hours of Thursday morning, the track
of the Kowloon-Canton Railway has been extensively damaged in numerous places over a length of seven miles between Shatin and Taipo Market.
In the course of the interview, the There are big wash-outs at various principal of the orphanage, Mrs. A. spots,
the most serious damage Blanchett, told the reporter that the suffered being at the point where the orphanage was facing a serious railway skirts Tolo Harbour, where shortage of rice as their telephone the rails are hanging over the em- had been disconnected since the bankment, practically into the har- typhoon and there was no means of bour.
getting in touch with Kowloon City. At several points the embankments Through the reporter, Mrs. Blanchett have been completely washed away. sent a message to her missionary The railway engineering staff is friends at the C. M. S. Heep Yunn working day and night carrying out Girls School for a big bag of rice repairs, but Major R. D. Walker, the to be immediately rushed to the Manager, stated yesterday that orphanage.
CASTLE PEAK From another source it was learned that several casualties occurred along the Castle Peak Road.
the line cannot possibly be opened until September 13 at the earliest, and even this date is dependent on favourable weather.
A Chinese was killed at the office
T'ai Ching-cheung, aged 55, of of the Hong Kee Ming Company, Cochrane Street, was taken to the Shing Mun; a boy was killed at Sai Tung Wah Hospital after he had Lok Kok village and another at Tin been rescued from the harbour by Kau. Two deaths occurred at another man. Sheungshui, where ten houses col- A Dairy Farm coolie, Ho Man, lapsed. The body of a Chinese male aged 36, was injured when a door was washed ashore, and a Chinese flew
and female was washed up at the 114 struck him.
mile beach.
Most of the
open during
the storm
Injuries to the head and face were matsheds on Castle suffered by Chan Chuen, aged 68, Peak Road have been destroyed, only and Tong Ip, aged seven, a girl, a few concrete and wooden structures remaining.
MANY
DEATHS
Typhoon Toll In Hongkong And Kowloon Grows
when a hut in which they were living at Kowloon Tong collapsed.
Internal injuries were received by Li Wing, aged 43, of the Wing Lee contractors' matshed at Ma Shu Wan, where a matshed collapsed.
A woman, Lai Kwai-lin, aged 35, of No. 27 Yuchow Street, sustained severe burns when she accidentally touched a broken electric wire. More than 50 dead bodies of men An unknown yacht that capsized and women were removed to the in Cheungshawan caused injuries to Public Mortuary on Thursday by the Lai Yan, aged 52, an employee, who police. These people met their deaths was in the yacht at the time. through house collapses, stepping on live electric wires, falling signboards, pr drowning.
THIEF ACTIVE
Miss M. M. Tyrrell, of the Penin- While walking along Hollywood sula Hotel, reported that the door Road three men, Sung Wah, Chan of her matshed at Repulse Bay was Yuet-sing and Sun Wai, were injured blown off during the gale, and pro- at different times through falling perty comprising a gramophone and signboards.
some records were stolen.
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