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LONDON.

GIVES WARNING OF "APPROACHING TYPHOONS.

WED

THE HONGKONG DAILY FRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 20TH, 1988.

CHART SHEWING TYPHOON RECORDED IN SWATOW

On AUGUST 3rd, 1922.

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"TYPHOON NEWS. (Continued from page 7.)

THE RAIN.

The rain which fell during the typhoon

* SHIPS » DRIVEN TO THEIR

DOOM!

AN EYE-WITNESS'S ACCOUNT.

A resident who watched events frain

deserves a paragraph to itself. Almost an office near the Hongkong Club sars throughout exceedingly heavy, during the

worst part of the storm it completely that he reached the office about 9 a.tu, and obscured the range of vision beyond a bad settled down to work as usual when | faw yards' distance. The raindrops he heard the maroons go off." Every-

struck the face like hundles of needles;

it was impossible to gaze in the direction body rushed to the windows," he said. from which the storm was coming and to watch the seas which began to get when one looked to leeward the sting of

the rain on the back of the neck, was very rapidly. Soon they were break- almost as painful, as on the face. The ing heavily against the Praya wall, send- obscurity of vision induced by the raining up clouds of spray as high as the increased the scuse of helplessness of those on board the drifting vessels in the buildings and increasing the obscurity pro- Harbour. Even if it had been possible duced by the torrential rain, Sometimes to avoid impending collisions, it was im-

we could see nothing beyond the Praya possible for the navigators to see what lay ahead. When the rain fell with spas wall; at others times the mist c'eared modig violence the scene, as seen from slightly and we could discern the Empresas" aa etninence overlooking the broader of Australia looming up and fading away. slopes of the Peak, was a very beautiful one. The rain could be seen drifting again into the mist. It had the curious ncross the countryside in long curtains effect of making her appear to be drifting of quivering haze, following one another to and fro. Later, we saw the Indrė į rapidly as far as the eye could see,

We

Perhaps the heaviest rain in Hongkong Leon between her and our line of fell about two pain. At this time the vision, where previously there had been nullah at the Lower Peak Tram Terminus ship, so we know that the Andrë presented an extraordinary spectacle as bon, at any rate, bid drifted. the loaming brown torrent tore past. Surface drains discharging into the nullah could not make out the relative pesitions sent forth such violent streams that the very clearly but were not surprised to water emerged horizontally and spanned hear afterwards that the two vessels ap- the raging main stream beneath. At th

every bend it seemed as though the peared in great danger of entliding, In- nullah's solid walls of masonry mast give deed it seemed so to us; it was a time of way under the extra pressure of the,,im- peded stream. Encensingly, branches of

tense anxiety, it seemed as though any- trees, borne along with the speed of race. thing might happen and that even an Eorses, fitted across the light and were Empress might turn, turtle in Auch a gone. At this time, also, the surface

druins in Garden Road, although in fullterrible gale. That was the strongest im operation as above described, proved in-pression on the mind; amazement, that: adequate to drain the road surface and wind could blow with such awful viol- Į for some' minutes the road itself became a raging cataract so that to walk there was as uncomfortable as to tramp through the bed of a mountain stream.

The rainfall during the 24 hours ended at 6 p.m. on Saturday was recorded at

exceeded.

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INTERRUPTION OF COMMUNICATIONS.

The Star Ferry Service was suspended about 8.30 am, and resumed at 3.30 p.m.

The Hongkong Tramway Co.'s service was suspended, cwing to the power being cat off to prevent danger to life from broken wires, and the service was resumed (about 4.30 p.m

ence,"

*Early in the storm we could see dimly the outlines of vessels drifting past, their funnels sucking furiously, but

theiz

the Observatory na 4.02 inches. Incident-engines evidently unable to make headway ally this brings the total for the year" up against the fury of wind and sens. The to 61.36 inches against an average of first one turned out to be the small. 60.80 inches. This is the first time this teamer-the Sekino „Maru which found. Year that the average rainfall has been lodgment against Statue Pier. At first it. eined as though she would get sea room. and be able to get head on to the storm. But opposite Statue Pier she wag beaten. inward, broadside on, humping heavily against the pier. Then the wind got under her stern and swung ber round, broadside on to"the windward side of the pier where she lay throughout, the storm grinding beavily and damaging both Hir- | self and the pier. If she had hit one of The Peak Tram cars ceased to run from the wooden piers-the Star Ferry or Blake about 8.30 a.m. til 2.p.m. -

Pier she must have carried it away for The Kowloon. motor buses continued to she was moving with corsiderable speed. run beyond the time when it was safe to After that, another steamer drifted do so, with the result that no fewer than up in the same way; this was a much eight of them were overturned and damlarger vessel and was nearer to us. It aged. THE TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC LIGHT SERVICES.

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approached very near the Naval Yard and the end of the V.R.C. premises, moving much more slowly at fast and The telephone service to many parts of evidently touching the bottom. She went the, Colony was interrupted by the poles aground near the V.R.C. and was beaten and wires, having been brought down. by the waves abent 20 yards further 'be The overhead cables of the Hongkong fore she finally stuck. She turned out Electric Co. suffered in the same way, to be the T.K.K.' Ginys Maru. Later, we thus depriving many houses of light. The saw that she had established communica- damage is so extensive that it will prob- tion with the Naval Yard Camber and ably take some days to repair. Fortu people could be seen getting on and off. nately, for the ecntral part of the City, About this time the André. Erban the cables are now anderground, and so appeared on the scene, în dangerous proxi- no inconvenience was caused in the areas mity to the Empress, but the French supplied by these cables. At Kowloon steamer won.clear and, her smoke stacks also the electric light supply was disbelching forth furiously, she steamed organised to some extent from the same slowly up the harbour, in the teeth of the cause. Incidentally it may be mentioned gale, no doubt to her present position. that on both sides of the harbour, people

"I think the next thing we saw was (apparently six in all) were electrocuted the Jardine bont. It was a dreadfully sad by coming in contact with live wires spectacle. She came drifting past, par- The Military were left with two tele-tially submerged and evidently Bikely to phone connectious cut of: 350.

THE LOSS OF LIFE ON LAND. SIX PERSONS ELECTROCUTED. Through the courtesy of the Chief Inspec. tor at Central Police Station we were able to ascertain yesterday morning from the police reports sent in by the various Police Stations in Hongkong and Row

the approximate number of casualties on

founder at any moment. Her bows were under water and some of us thought wo saw men on the stern making signals for help which no one could respond to.. We could paly hope that she might reach shallower water in time to save her from sinking completely and drowning her crew, She secured to strike the Douglas pier and then we saw no more of her and feared the worst. At that distance we could not see the funnet just showing

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PREVIOUS TYPHOONS IN HONGKONG:

some means of getting a line out from the Praya but it was obviously impossible against the force of the storm, At length, activity was observed on the forecastl

(AS RECORDED AT THE ROYAL OHSERVATORY). of the Gingo Mark and a man with life belt, and line jumped into the sea. He was carried by the current down towards the man on the buoy and got him back to the Ginya. Maru where both were hoisted on board The submarine, when she`nettled, was still just visible and is so

Date

1864, Sept. 10

1903, Oct. 2 |1804, Sept. 25

1894, Oct. 5. 1896, July 23 1900, Nov. 10 1002, Aug. 1906, Sept. 18 1908, July 23 1913, Aug. 17

2368989 velocity miles

Direction

lof wind when high cat

26.68 ENE 20.23 E by N

8099.31 Eby N

NO 2009 SE by S

108 28.78

:00

now.

I had often wanted to see typhoon" concluded our informant, but I pover. Want to see such another. sight as all those vessels drifting to des- traction. I shall never forget the feeling

28.73 of sorrow and distress when the almost

29.09 & W by S

29.07 SSW

81* 28,82 SKE

SENE

· 29.21.

E by N Anemometer damaged record prob ably low...

submerged Loongtang went by, driven ta her doom with we knew not how many lives involved in her fate.”

NO - STEAMERS FROM MAÇÃO.

The lowest reading recorded at the Thore were no steamers to and from Swntow Club during, the typhoon and Macão 'yesterday and conséquently bu tidal wave which swept that part on delimite news as to how the Portugues Angust 1st, 2nd and 3rd of last year was Colony fared..

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