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SHANGHAI SWEPT BY A TYPHOON.

BIGGEST STORM FOR NEARLY FORTY YEARS,

EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO SHIPPING. FUBINESS HELD UP ASKORE,

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yards, many of them with the seats with they had been encircled still attached, and the entrance to the Garders from the bridge was choked up with several largo treon. The whole garden, sonddered and flooded, presented a vild appearance. The tremendous force of the wind may be judged from the fact that yards of con Crete were torn up with-the-treos.

The roof of Messrs. Davies and Brooke's hong at the corner of Canton Road was blown away, and the Cantet Road jetty was partially smashed and submerged.

About 2 a.ta, on Wednesday the wind increased in force with the barometer rapidly falling, and there was beavy rain. An hour later the weather set in squally, with the wind east, and at 4.30 there were Tara. At 5 o'clock it was unly possible fo violent squalls accompanied by torrential seo two ships lengths ahead through the

A trou some seven inches in diameter lighthouse, forty-five miles from Woosung, was slapped off by the force of the wind at the mouth of the Yangtare. As the on The Bund, and blown, about 200 yards wind was increasing and the barometer down Foochow Road. lown Fooches Romancy ab i The Band tightly falling, Captain Glen decided not fell, killing three Chinese- riosa put back, and at 8.30 pm, anchored ta the channel between the Blockhouse and coolie, a malco and a watchman.

Six Chinese in Loua district were the Quarantine buoys, this being consider. removed to Shantung Road Hospital da be a safe anchorage suffering from injuries from falling TERRIFIC FORCE OF THE WIND.

debris; two have sincs died. QUA People who were early abroad, on foot, In North Chekiang Road a portion of The Following account of the typhoon in rieshas or motor cars, had extremo bonse was blown in, three of the inmates at Shanghai is taken from the N.-C. Daily difficulty in making their way and thero being rather severely injured

were several pccidents, At one time, At Bubbling. Well an electrio wire fell crossing the Garden Bridge was an ex-jon a Chinese constable, rendering him Yews:

One of the most severe storms expertremely difficult undertaking, slow pro- unconscious.

many years struck Shanghai gress only being possible, and that by incans of a scentre hold on the bridge rail. enced for between 11 and 12 o'clock on Tuesday Several people were blown clean across the readway, and it was reported that two Chinese had been carried over into night. After a sultry evening, a strong

the creek. breeze began to develop, and about 71 o'clock was blowing at a great rate. There was a powerful tide sweeping up the Huangpu, and the few people on. The Bund and in the Public Gardens witnessed a great commotion among the small craft hurrying in for shelter.

Rain began to fall in torrents, and the gale continued furiously throughout the night,

From midnight onwards there was a clamour of falling tiles, of parts of roofs and shop fronts being wrenched away, breaking glass, and the rear of the wind, which blew with great violence. The few people abroad up till 1 a.m. ron considerable risk of being struck by pieces of debris which quickly began to cover the roads.

THE METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. Some interesting details of the course of the typhicon are given in the China Coast meteorological report, which states that the first squall occurred at 8.49 p.n., and a heavy aquall came on at 11.20. midnight the barometer was falling fast, reaching ite lowest point at 6.30 4. yesterday. The wind was the greatest recorded since 1879. Rain and tide were

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me and rain, and at this time the squalls were extremely heavy. All hands were served out to the passengers. At 6.30 were called to their stations and lifebelts During the day a number of steam the squalls were of hurricane forco and Another spot where the terrine fores of launches wore busy about the river both the ship's cables parted. The vessel vour being to get her stein on to the wind, wind was fully fold was at the corner bringing junks and cargo boats lighters was immediately got under way, the caden. of the Bund and Nanking Road, Aint shelter.

All roads near the Bund were strewn but it was found impossible to steer,

The only course open now was to head sents to those at Home. pony carriage and many ricahas were overturned. With practically all the with the flotsam and jetsam of tho heary traffic of the day at a standstill, storm-some of them had a complete the vessel up for Blockhouse Island and The Bund had a deserted and belated covering of foliage and branches of trees get her under the leg of the island. Upon appearance during the morning, and together with large pieces of corrugated reaching the shoal water, the ship sheered on the Pootung shore. The paddles were busines houses generally had an enforced iron and quantities of tiles lifted from off to southward and made for Hellespont

It was for the reason that tho aljacent roofs.

It was reported that over fifty largel holiday. streets were so curiously empty that ons was able to not what might up a junks were sunk at Woosung, some of kept going at full speed in the hope that the wind and heading south-south-east. ordinary occasion have been overlooked them in the Channel.Consequently, the the ship would come up into the wind, namely, the pleasant spectacle of a Chinese navigation of the river is extremely but she did ro: do so, lying breadside to Very soon land on the Pootung side, off abroad for look see" wearing a black dangerous.

Hellespent, was made out, and, both. anchors and chains Laving now gone, it swallow-tail coal and sandals."

seemed possible to save the vessel only by running her ashore. Captain Glen looked cut for a favourabl, position, and when the ship had safely passed the stones which are marked on the chart as being off Helles pont, he hended her directly for the beacli. Fortunately she teck the thers in a very favourable position, stern to the wind and how right on to the shore, about 1000 yards As the tide was rising, an endeavour was on the shen! off the line of the shore.

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A considerable unrount of damage, but nothing a very serious nature, was done on the French Bund. Telephone poles and tramway standards were brought down -and- trees uprooted, although the Chinese houses at the southern end were protected by the high godowns immediately in front of violently removed, some of the debris them, many had portions of their frontage falling across the tramway wires and snapping them.

According to Chinese reports 2,000 Chinese boat people lost their lives in the upper reaches of the river.

Mr. G. Arthur, Assistant Sanitary Inspector in the Public Health Depart ment, rendere, valuable assistance in rescuing a number of coolies who were on A Chinese woman was killed through the raft near the Bund foreshore. fall of a gable end from a Chinese honse in Chicagtu Road..

The roof of the German Club was tiles being swept away over a space of severely damaged, in one place the about six square feet. Rain poured in and the upper stores of the building wore flooded:

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made about 9 a.m. to put the ves el fur- violence of the storm, and large numbers

ther up the bank paddles had been kept In the early morning, an attempt was going al this time to prevent mud filling The typhoon came from the Pacific, and of small craft found safety and shelter

the passengers if necessary. The tide con- passed between the Loochons and the behind the cerce of junks Judging from made to begin a service of tram, but round the vessel-with a view to landing Meccosima group, proceeding thence the wreckage floating on the river and straight doress the Eastern Sea and, it washed against the foreshore, however, it this was impossible, owing to the incinued to rise, and towards 11 o'clock tho~~ is conjectured, striking somewhere near is extremely probable that the destruction and overhead wires being blocked with ship gradually edged nearer the bank, and Ningpo. The report added that the wind of innumerable sampaas must have been day was occupied in clearing the line, by noon her bow was only about twenty

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away. To make things worse, junks were passing at a terrific speed, entirely cut F hand, and many of them went down quite close to the Kinngtech. Fortunately the squalls abated considerably, and Captain Glen was able to manoeuvre his ship until BEFORE such time as the ebb tide suited his making for Shanghai, which was reached about 6.clock, with no further damage to the ship than the loss of her cables and

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fallen trees. The greater part of the nod at 5 o'clock a reduced service was in yards away from the shore. A change in operation, and was maintained for the the wind from east to south-south-east took would probably vier south or south-west,

the bows of the ship off land, and she was or might even go due west, and in that

The western district suffered éverely. rest of the day.

Communication with the upper wharves then taken at full speed to mid-channel case the typhoon would probably increase

at daylight was in velocity in the Yellow Sea, or expend The soone

Babbling Well Road at Pootung was interrupted throughout The only thing possible now was to keep traordinary one. itself in Korea. It is very probable that

was strewn with fallen trees, the roofs yesterday. Steam launches for the crce-the usual chuonel course, and this was a In one instance, matter f great difficulty owing to the fac Shangtung, Chefen, and Weihaiwei will

of many houses were partially or coming were at al premium. feel the storm very severely.

pletely torn away, and gardens were The 100 was asked for the hire of that abe would not steer properly and that Per 10 Catty Box, $21.00, Per 5 Catty Box, $11.50.

the owne would nothing could be seen a quarter of a mile Booded. Yates ad, Weiwei Road, launch, and galo was not unexpected. Sicawei Carter Road, Avenue Road, Rue Joffro guarantee a landing. Observatory having recorded the progress and adjacent roads were affected in the The wireless telegraphy: pole of the storm for two or three days. At G p.. on Tuesday it was reported to be off Weihniwei Road collapsed at about a crossing the Bashoe Channel and moving, lifting its concrete foundation and strong fence. north-west, and would then be about 1,100 cutting clean through milca from Bhanghai. The probabilities Mobawk Road was covered with wreckage were that the typhoon would strike the from the frontages and roofs of Chineer coast somewhere about Foochow and houses. All matsheds were demolished or would break up on touching land there badly damaged, while sun screens, in the During the night, however, the wind hung majority of cases, were carried away The northern and eastern districts also pinimously in the northeas, gathering in bodily.

Trafic along Broad- force, and by an-m, it was blowing a full gale. The wind was at its greatest fores suffered severely, at 7.30 a.m. It was then blowing from way was positively dangerous in the early east-north-east, with tremendous equalis morning and forenoon, and people coming from the east, but during the morning it to town kept to the more sheltered Seward entirely disappeared, there being justere supply current to consumers without

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Numbers of boats which put in great patches of well-trampled mud. At veered to east-south-east and south-east at the wharves for shelter were smashed midnight on Wednesday, the Tong Hung throughout Wednesday, and at night, an 1 this being an indication that the typhoon to picces, most of the alleyways were was towed away from the Garden for the continuous service was of special ed- was passing to the southward of Shang blocked with the debris of matsheds and shore, and from daylight onwards the vantage to the French wireless station Walls and chins Chinese were busy gathering up the frag which was able to render valuable hai. It is believed that the typhoon fences and fallen trees.

resumed in the whole of the struck the coast to the north of Ningponeys were blown down, the district lements of smashed sampaus and lighters, assistance to chips at sea. The service. French Concession during Wednesday about seventy miles from Shanghai. The tween Muirhead Road and Chanfoong and of cargo strewn up and down the storm began to subside at Shanghai in the Road suffring severely in this respect, foreshore.

It appears that about a dozen yachts evening. In the Concession Extension, arly afternoon and soon after three and Kungping Road was impassible o'clock a few tugs went out on the river owing to the number of tres lying across were wrecked, many of them being cwing to the damage caused by falling Broadway khocked into splinters, and the loss suffer trees, the service had to be suspended, but to help distressed craft to places of more the roadway, and the flood.

was under water for a considerable dis-ed by members of the Tacht Club must be in the evening over 60 per cent of the security.

tance and tramway traffic was held up, very considerable All that could be consumers were supplied. STRANDING OF THE "TUNG HONG."

several electric standards having collapseen of the Caquette was a lifebelt. The The Riding School at Gordon Road was At daylight The Bund presented remarksed. In Chanfoong Road the front part of Clyde, Glory III and Foam were lying completely blown down, and the roof was able evidences of the violence of the storm. a house was blown in.

At the corner of Thorne and Fearonhigh and dry, broken up beyond repair taken off the quarbete occupied by Chinese and there were others partially sub Most prominent was the appearance of the atr. Tung Hòng, stranded near the Roads an electria light pole was-bbmerged. Chinese in sampani and on rafts recruits. About 300-trees were blown down Table Gardens. She was undergoing re- down, the wires falling on the telephone industriously gathered in bits of wreckage

A Chinese who was caught in the and the remains of such cargo as was in

A motor houseboat was seen sweeping pairs and lay at the bucy opposite the wires. Old Dock, breaking her moorings at about wires was killed instantaneously.

In Cunningham Road a wall fell on a condition to be carried away.

Police reports from the various districts up river during the typhoon and she fell 7.30 a.m., at which time apparently the storm reached it's greater forceriesha coolis who received some bad cuta

and otherwise, chiefly due to the collapse whence the crew were rescued by the cow houseboat was driven on up the river, and drifted up-streams, and fortunately swung and bruises; the cocupant of the richa give details of a number of accidents, fatal athwart the hawser to the US, Saratoga past the entrance to the Sacchow Creek, escaped.

In North Szechuen Road, tramway add of walls and the fall of electric wires. 4 of the Saratoga by means of ropes. The coolie was electrocuted by a falling wire Had she not done this, a collision with the

while c'eaning up an alleyway off Ningpe it is believed that she is the vessel which FRENCH LESSONS Garden Bridge would have been inevitable, telephone wires were blown, down.

Read. A child was killed by a falling wall foundered off the Customs jetty,

The U.S.S. Quiros and the str. Chintice with serious results. As it was, the was

in Lours. The front of a house in Shanee dragged their anchors and fell alongside thrown on the foreshore, in her passage

Road collapsed and a boy just passing & each other, in which position they remain just missing a Japanese steamer. A mass of wreckage lies between the stranded

It was between 6 and 6am. that much the time was killed. Other deaths from ed until the typhora passed off steamer and the garden bund, sampans, lighters, and launches being mixed up in of the havoc on the river was done, similar causes were reported from Shanse A pinunge belonging to the U.S.S. The three launches although the high wind and the rough Road, Fokien Road, Tsepoo Road, North Saratoga sank opposite the Old Dock, and great confusion

The Band stand at Hongkew Recreation yesterday efforts were inade to get her

the diver wrecked here were the Mints and the weather before was responsible for a goud Shanse Road, and Chengtu Read,

ground was blown down and part of the up. She was located in the morning by Many cargo boats and smaller craft wers For belonging to the Old Dock Company, deal. and Messrs.-Jarding, Matheson's Thistle..

It is, of course, impossible to estimate dressing rooms demolished. A large anm-

and ready time before they are repaired and A steel lighter lay bottom upwards at

for work and the corner of the Soochow Creek and the the loss of life, but while the toll on the ber of trees were destroyed. No reports Public Gardens, and another one sank at river must have been heavy, that within as to injury or loss of life were received sunk in the river, and it will be some the entrance to the Old Dock. The big the Bettlement itself is, fortunately, cot at North Szechuen Road station,

It will be some time before the Publio The damage to the godown of the mainly due to the collapse of houses and U.S. army collier broke from her moorings high. What accidents did occur were at Postung and drifted down the river, walls, numerous instances of which are Garden resumes anything like its ordina Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., Ltd.,

As many of the uprooted eventually going ashore at Yangtszepoo. reported from the various police districts appearance.

Two Chinese were electrocuted in Fearon trees as possible will be replanted, but it is, fortunately, not serious. Three or four lay along the foreshore. The Foam, the Louza district, from reports to hand, has will have to be cut away to reduce the the Pooting works of the Shanghai The wreckage of innumerable small craft Read through touching a live wire. The order to raise them much of the foliage sheets of galvanized iron were blown off headquarters boat of the Shanghai Yacht suffered the most so far as collapses, etc, weight. A considerable amount of repair

rails, and the lawn round the band stand rush of drifting cargo bosts and other Club, suffered heary damage, and several are concerned. In Chekiang Road a littlo smaller yachts, together with launches and girl and a new were killed by falling work will have to be done to hunding an Dock and Engineering Co., with the great roofs, while in Fukien Road au amuh was will practically have to be reinid. Most email craft, three of the steam launches lighters, were plunging about dangerously killed and three men injured of the damage here, and on The Bud broke adrift, one of them getting ashore

WRECKAGE ON THE FORESHORK

and in a damaged condition near the Jetty, and near-here the lawn was strewn with bales of cargo in many places.

Along the whole length of the foreshore, smashed and battered eraft swayed with the tide, and by noen most of the wrecks wore reduced to matchwood, odrgo of all <descriptions was floating about, and though some few bales were got ashore by Chinese, the task of salvage was difficult and could act be attempted on any exten A large number of huge logs of timber, which were for some time a menace to the few small craft plying on the river, were secured to the foreshore, in the Gardens hat aubers were aflost on the river all day and were always & source of consider able danger. Another danger was that of derelict junks, of which there were many,

IN THE PUBLIC GARDENS,

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MISSING, LAUNCHES,

THE LOSS OF LIFE.

The Race Course, during the

THE PUBLIC GARDEN.

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THE DOCK COMPANY.

the roof of an old godlewn

was transformed into a huge lake.in foreshore, appears to have occur id on the Bund and being badly damaged. many places the water was from x to between 6.30 and 7.30 on Wednesday morn It will be possible to fix up the other to nino inches dep, and the storm blewing, and long before this time the Chica with slight repairs down nearly all the matsbeds erected at boat people, realizing what was about to

HAVOC AT WOOSING. Reports continue to reach Shanghai 17

the beginning of the sporting season. happen, rushed up the Soochow Creek for the terrible havoc wrough; at Wogsung.

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY CUT Orr.

The electricity supply was cut eff yesterday, consequently the trams could not run, there were no lights or fans and all machinery run by electric power was rendered idle.

shelter, there being a a great struggle for It was reported yesterday that at

places para entha

EXPERIENCES OF THE KIANGTEEN,

Woosung village and the Custom House there was an enormous quantity of wreck- broken simpans. Four lighters which had age, including that of three forches and previously been engaged on work connected Amongst the losses sustained by Shang- with the sunken Str. Hrinks, went down hai firms, the Shanghai Tug & Lighter Chad one lighter sunk with a small

The effect of the typhoon at Wcosung account of the experissens of the C... may be gathered from the following Two of the crosses ou Sicawei Cathedral Kingteen, which escaped destruction only have been severely bent by the force of by clover maneuvring on the part of crew. The Kiangleen left Shanghai of the wind.

The roof of Messrs. Mustard and Co.'s Captain Glen and the good work of the in Woosung Creekryter offices at the corner of Museum and Tuesday afternoon at 5:15 an hee usual Soochow Roads was partially destroyed, sheets of galvanized Iron being blown a journey to Ningpo, and had on board 50 good distance down Museum Road passengers and a quantity of cargo, quantity of cargo. The Kochien Trans-

Heers. Kelly and Walsh Ltd, 11 The Bund, had a plate glass window blown ini, The fall of a tree, outside the Hong The damage done in the Public Garces kong and Bhanghai Hauk did consider Scores of tates able damage to the stonework of the was quite remarkable were born up and carried away for some building.

The typhoon was signalled off the Meco aima group, direction north-west, and the barometer was then at 29.55, Outside Woosung there was a fresh easterly wind with a moderate ses running; and the Kiangteen went on as far as the Túngsha

portion Co. lost one lighter at the Canton Road jetty, having on board Ts. 25,000 worth of piece goods.

The Samtye Cargo Boat Co. had fire lighters sunk, with 3,250 canes of antimony en board.

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