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SEVERAL HUNDRED CHINESE CRAFT WRECKED.

ESTIMATED LOSS OF 300 LIVES.

PATHETIC SCENES ON THE SEA-FRONT.

It is the general consensus of opinimu that the very bravy gale experienced in the Colony throughout Thursday night, and all. yesterday has. Been «<th> cause. of grater-lass of life and property than the Colony has suffered through M similar CM14 for several years, Et. is roughly estimated that between and oco Chinène aft of various sizes have been dest by d and about 300 lives

Fost

HARBOUR.

the waves were beating up against the The walls and breaking over the read. Wanchai Police were busy till about "i a.m. about which in the wind hatt

moderated a good deal Yesterday after

CONDITIONS YESTERDAY

EVENING,

Yesterday evening, when the velocity of wind fell at bio, a few sampans vor

non crowds were busy trying to salve jured our Thy did not go far, however,

or the wind came in fierce gusts, showing' the wreckage. it was noticeablo' that several bir junka were destroyed near the plainly that the safest place for a samipan China Sugar Rehnery."

enit its "ccupants was the class refuge, Several launches, however, seized the pportunity to tow junks and their vern-

OIL JUNK ON FIRE IN THE

HARBOUR.

A saiking spectacle was witnessed in pants to the reing, at a for which some- as $100 each. Needles the fiarburn Thursday night, when ages rose as high large oil junk muered hear the Macas say the scrupants of lunches and EXTRAORDINARY SCENES IN THE wharf, caught fire, She had arrived that Finks alike ran creiderable risk, but pe morning from Shanghai, aden with highs of life from this cause has ben cans of oil. A lap on board upset os ingeported.

THE HONGKONG SALVAGE to the gals and set fire tooine arteles In kurth the cable either brake or got

ASSOCIATION.“ burnt, and the junk compened to drift) The Hongkong Salvage Association" The crew.seeing their danger, had a busy das praterday" "Their members jump into the water leaving only three composed of these Chinew who find a bergensen man, a woman'ana child-profitable living, in times of stress, in valv aboard threatened by a worse death than things from the sea. Armed with lang drowning. The junk was soon a mass of

Some very extraordinary sernes ware witnessed in the harbour by those 'an unches. The skill of the average sain pan man and woman in managing their craft in rough weather is a byword along the Coast, and the desperation with which oras Chinese mancurred their bants in the beavy seas which threatened to engulf

them every minute, would have been the

Complaint is made of delay in report subject. of real admiration if there bad The nut been also a tragic side to the scene. Lang the proximity of the typhoon.

feeling is that the signals should have In this connection, it must be mentioned Leen put up on Thursday evening at least that several launches, notably the Police an hour earlier. On this point we express launches, rescued numerous lives by stear- he spinion, but certainly it would be beting past the junks and pulling the ter appreciated by the floating popula. occupants aboard.

In some instances,

AND LU MUL~

moving Er The re-float turned ont in spite of the weather, but it was nut possible to get near the burning junk.

beat hooks, and indiferent, to frequent wettings. they stood on the Praya, the wharves and piefs, dshing out of the sea the wreckage of the junks and sampaus that had been destroyed. It is authorita

People on shore and on the wharves ronid Lively estimated that between 500 and 600 in the thrie Chinese on board making Chinese craft of various sizes were sank or otherwise destroyed by the storm. The

piteous appeals for assistance which, al

tion if the Observatory would-even launches, towed junks into the shelter of course, could not be rendered. The burni&cupants of the great "majority were

at the risk of being considered over-can- tious-endeavour to give longer notice of & sudden probabl- change in the weather conditions. Those who state that the glass should have given an indication of

sas cil, but the loss of life is conservatively

the refuges, but in every instance when junk drifted towards Kennedy Town, and this was not done by Police launch this there foundered, all that was left,ai her, seeming act of kindness was performed in yesterday morning, being a few pieces of pated at 300. Several bodies were Bound Boating in "the Harbour. The return for a generous reward. Several charred wreckage. Those Chinese who had

Police base precized reports of only 5 sunpañe wero foating about the harbour jumped overboard to save themselves frotaj on Thursday night. some overturned, A violent squall way be reminded that ethers still battling with the waves, while remained behind wore, presumably, burp foregoing estimate is to be found in the the fire were drowned. The three whe persons drowned--but the explanation of the difference between this figure and the

(old saying that ̈ dead men tell no tales.”

PATHETIC SIGHTS ON THE WATER-FRONT.

a few days ago, the glass was more depressed than it was on Thursday after noon. yet nothing approaching a gale was experienced. As a matter of fact, recent meteorological conditions have been a source of some perplexity to those who have been accustomed to jadze the weather conditions in the light of ther mature experience...

ALARMS IN THE 'AST TWO. MONTHS.

During the last two months, there have been several typhoon alarms in the Colony, but only on July 4th-when the signals went up too late to give the Chinese junks and sampans opper tunity of getting into refuge was any damage dong That occasion was notable lor very creditable work done by naval launches from the Krut and the, Tumer, abuse suitors eaved numerous lives with

HAPPY HIT very commendable bravery. On several

CIGARETTES

some of their occupants had met a wateryed to death,. grave.

MANY CRAFT TAKEN BY SUR-

FRISE.

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IN THE EARLY HOURS OF

YESTERDAY MORNING.

their

Soon after d'am, yesterday, the gale mid-stream, or the great majority

The greatest damage was not done my res again, and those Chinese who had Some very pathetic sights were witness." junks and sumpans which ventured out poored their sampans in what theyed along the Praya yesterday. On the had done so comparatively early-that is thought to be safety had a rude awaken Yaumati ferry Wharf were an old woman bera the full force of the gale' was felting, for the waves smashed up some of and a little girl of five weeping over the

bouts and swamped others. loss of their

suinpan and the disappe Numerous Police officers we DO out undance in the waters of the child's mother. about at an early hour, assisting the Close by an interested crowd watched a hoat-people. Detective Sergeant Mason junk moured to a wharf towing in the sea, saved several lives by jumping into junks seemingly in danger of sinking at any and helping to secure them, and assisting moment. One end of the junk bad been

in the barorr--and had reached the anchorages, either aided or unaided. A number of Chinese craft, however, were caught unawares, and the toll of life and

loss among these goes to swell the tale of

We disaster.

Between blake Pier and the Star Ferry per ay sapans are usually mooreti

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men, women and children ashore. Very atove in by constant banging up against few junks which had been inoored along the wharf, and the water was the Prayn withstood the fury of thealing in. Un the opposite end sat a prastu my but is believed tak, waves, and those that did were "bobbing young Chinese, with a look of determina up and down in the water, as if each tion on his face, as if he would ever moment they would be engulfed.

quite a quiel were walisued up along the ja raya way or on and two puera, man øvery Lokalen be socupants managed to seTILITY

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on the Praya to West Point, dozens of junks and sampans being moored alongside the piers and the waarves, and

other occasions the sampans and jankstesnore. scurried away in scores to the typhoon refuges, the hip lighters were towed to Kilter by steam launches, while on the steamers in harbour deck awnings were remfed, the order was given to get up The Real Burley Cigaretiem, are cable was paid out, and every other preparation was taken to mre:

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CONDITIONS ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON.

It is well known that the Chinese of the older generation among the Boating

population have their own methods of obtaining news of approaching typhoons. and, however much these methods may be decried, there have been occasions in the. past when the Royal Observatory of Hongkong has put up its typhoon signals after junks were making their way to the refuges -in more than usual numbers. 4. hent was so oppressive on Thursdar alloon that it was thought probable gale would come on in the evening, but the glass readings were not such as lo cause alarm. There was a slight swell on Thursday afternoon, and as this began to increase, the more cautious of the junk and sampan owners commenced to make tracks for the anchorages.

WHEN THE GALE COMMENCED

TO BLOW."

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each older. Ioleruay murajug

survey si tuus ptiresin of the city revealed what had beche scene of desatin junks and simpans the evening before

were

ther a mass of driftwood-some

gathered high on the Fraya and the w nuries-sume st. Beating about like Hotsam and jetsum in the sua. here aùa uiere rocked a bag uk which its for cadute owners were able to secure by long ropes from two diferent directiona

COURAGEOUS WORK OF EURO PEANE.

Special mention must be made of the courageous work of.Detective Sergeants ralion and Stamson, and of Mr. W. rasey, the hongkong, Macao and Steamboat When whart, on inursday evening.

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two gale broke, the sampans clustered together alongside the british Coaton wars were gradually breaking

up.

Von-

Beir "irightened occupants, more cerned of the safety of their belongings than of their lives, were endeavouring to Lasten their boats securely to one thing or another. The waves ran so high that more than one person were washed over- Doard. In the struggle and contusion, Then it was some were Bot seen to rise. that the two detectives and Mr. Ediay Jumping into the came to the rescue. afterent junks in turn, they scrambled Chiness after ashore again with one

The velocity of the wind was nothing out of the ordinary till about 6 p.m., when the gale commented to blow, Then the harbour began to assume an unusual other, thus saving dozens whose lives

Jonks and sampans, large and

were a jeopardy, in some cases, the sight.

janks were so close to the Praya that small, began to hurry, across to the ro

THE BLACK CROSS HOISTED. The wind rose considerably from 9 a.m.

leave his humble home so long as it re mained above water. Near the Harbour

Office, there lay in the water à mass of

onwards, and at 10.35 a.m. had increased in such velocity that it was difficult to

timber that once was a junk, and on this. stand on the Praya or one of the wharves was an old woman endeavouring to throw except, under shelter. A very heavy a rope ashore, so that some of the timber downpour of rain gave the Harbour the might be salved. "Standing up to her appearance of a white cloud in which waist in water, with the waves dashing ven the biggest stemmers were hidden. against her, she was a sight symbolic of When the rain abated the wind rose grim determination in the face of ruin again, and a: 15 àm, the three humba She would have been drowned if a Euro were fired from the Observatory and the pran passerby had not thrown out a life- Harbour Office," and the "block crossline from the Praya, slipped down the was put up, indicating that a typhoon rope, and with the aid of others, carried might be expected at any minute.

her up against her will Numbers of TYPHOON FAILS TO MATERIALISE. Chinese who had been robbed of all they Then an extraordinary thing happen-had by the storm huddled together in the

The wind actually slackened for & verandahs facing the Praya, jan time, and it seemed as if its force was spent. A resident of Hongkong, whose long experience in the Colony entitles him number of sampans standing high and to express an opinion, informed our te dry on the Frayn was to be seen at West porter that the most likely explanation

ed.

SAMPANS ON THE PRAYA, The extraordinary sight of a large

for this was that the typhoon was werk Point, last night. Most of these were ng in a circle of which Hongkong was washed up on shore in the first fury of Line centre. He thought that the full the gate on Thursday evening, while Lures of the typhoon must have been falt.everal others were dragged nahore by between 11 am and 11.30 am., at some their occupants. They are now serving an the Colony, house-banty for, whole families, whose re- earlier lief as their good fortune in saving their own lives as well as their property is

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a "been in the vicinity of 29.50, stood at 20.30, when the three bumos were fired. In this connection, it may be mentioned that early in the morning of September 15th, the date of the catas trophe of 1906, the glass stood at 28.74 and dropped with surprising rapidity to 20.28 when the typhoon actually broke. At about 11.30 am., the force of the wind increased again, and for the next half hour it blew in real typhoon style

tinued through the afternoon.

plainly evident. Some of the sampans were in 'battered condition, as a result of their fight with the waves. Several hundred less fortunate Chinese, who had lost their boats, prevented a spectacle” of distress what tunched the bearts of all who witnessed it.

SHIPPING IN THE HARBOUR. - From about seven o'clock on Thursday evening the Harbour was a seething mass

tuges, and the greater majority of them asta. Edley, Stimson and Failon were Then the rain re-commenced, and conui waves, dotted here and there with the

reached shelter, after their inmates had able to throw the occupants ashore.

SMART WORK BY THE WANCHAI

"

POLICE

CITY BUSINESS DISORGANISED.

bigger steamers, facing the wind with steam up and with awnings reited.

Tho haspect of the centre of the city Numerous smaller steamers, and launches

ondergone the most exciting experiences. By this time the typhoon signala had warned everyone concerned of the danger, On the other side of the city, slong the showed that business was not proceeding including many river vessels, hurried to and word went round that a heavy gale Prays East, similar scenes were witness-ne usual, owing to the absence of those the anchorages. Lighters bearing valu might be expected. Close upon 7 p.m., d. Numerous junks and sampaqs on who, living on the other side of the Harable cargo were likewise taken to the. there was a high sea in the harbour, and their way to the Causeway Bay refuge bour, were unable to come across. Most anchorages. The Kinthan, which arrived numerous junks" which had struggled in Were driven out of their course and on

of the Chinese business, places were closed from 'Canton on Thursday evening, was vain to get scross to safety were over to the Praya wall, where some of them for the day. The tram-cars; also, stopped carried out of her course when hearing her running for a time. At about 11 p.m. on wharf and struck an adjoining whert. in future the Government should make Police did very meritorious work indeed, Thursday a tram-car was going full speed She was finally moored after great dim- arrangements... to commandeer stout saving numerous Chinese in desperate when it suddenly took a turn that brought culty, and set out on her return to Can- faunches whenever... heavy weather straits, though their work here was much it dead in the face of the wind, which was ton at 8p.. on Thursday, an hour threatens in order that, they may harder than in many other parts of the

earlier than usual because the glass was so strong that the car came to a stand: immediately available for towing and city because the full force of the wind stil for a full minute until the force of falling The Homan, which was not pane, and junks into safely

was blowing direct on to the Praya and "the wind slackened.

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