Robinson and Bowen Roads are fearfully dilapidated. Caine Road is impassable at the top of Glenealy owing to the subsidence of the main drain. Kennedy Road, at the end, near the Naval Hospital, is completely blocked by a tremendous land slip, second only to that which swept away part of the Tramway line. The whole hill on which the convalescents used to sit in the evening has slid into the road, trees and all, and a soft mound twenty feet high effectually stops all passage. A portion of the wall along the filter beds, near the Overflow Reservoir at Albany, has fallen, endangering the beds.
On Queen's Road East, where the large stock of drain pipes belonging to the Government is stored, the stout railings are broken down, and most of the big pipes broken and washed into the Harbour. Seven houses have been destroyed by a landslip from Hospital hill, but no-one injured, as the inmates had taken refuge in No.2 Police Station. Indeed it is estimated that at least six hundred persons were temporarily accommodated there by Inspector Swanston throughout the storm. A house in Yeung Wo Lane fell injuring a collie seriously. Several boats capsized in the Harbour; one, this morning, was reported to have upset near the Temporary Market, on the Praya, and seven men drowned.
Several persons have been found wet and destitute in huts on various parts of the hills, and one or two have died. The Wanchai Gap Road is utterly impassable in twenty places, whilst the Peak Road has escaped with one small landslip, and is quite open. At Whitfield, part of Mr. Chater's bungalow has fallen, and near by, a boat was wrecked against the sea wall and a man drowned. Several of the district sub-stations are rendered uninhabitable,
At Yaumati $800 worth of wood was washed away, and found stranded on Stonecutters' Island. The Government floating fire-engine has been damaged by junks fouling her during the storm, and has had to be sent to this side for repairs. At the Peak, this morning, a matshed fell, killing one coolie outright and breaking another's back,
Mr. W. St. John H. Hancock, C.E. estimated that the total weight of water which fell on the Colony, was five and a half million tons or 1,224,988,200 gallons - three times the capacity of Tytam Reservoir.
From the Illustrated London News of November 21, 1874, the story of the typhoon which struck Hongkong on the night of September 22, 1874, is given in brief. Reference to this typhoon has already appeared (See 4/12/33) but the additional details given here should be of interest. Between two thousand and three thousand people lost their lives. Fourteen steamers and merchant vessels in the Harbour were sunk, besides a large number of Chinese junks. Four ships were cast ashore. Among these was the Pacific Mail Steam Company's ship, Alaska. The Spanish steamers Albay and Leonore were sunk off Douglas Lapraik's wharf. Thirty-six men of their crews were saved by Mr. G. Taufer and his brother, the American engineers of the Hongkong Insurance engine.
The gunboat H.M.S. Flamer, was thrown up amidst the fragments of the bath-house and boat-house connected with the Hongkong Recreation Company. The Praya was four feet under water and large portions of the sea wall demolished. Huge blocks of granite from this wall were tossed against houses on the opposite side of the street. The storm began about six o'clock the next morning. St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church and several other buildings were destroyed.
Reproduced below is a picture of the Pacific Mail Steam Company's liner Alaska, cast ashore during the typhoon of 1874. One of the many wrecked during the storm is also shown.
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Robinson and Bowen Roads are fearfully dilapidated. Caine Road is impassable at the top of Glenealy owing to the subsidence of the main drain. Kennedy Road, at the end, near the Naval Hospital, is completely blocked by a tremendous land slip, second only to that which swept away part of the Tramway line. The whole hill on which the convalescents used to sit in the evening has slid into the road, trees and all, and a soft mound twenty feet high effectually stops all passage. A portion of the wall along the filter beds, near the Overflow Reservoir at Albany, has fallen, endangering the beds.
On Queen's Road East, where the large stock of drain pipes belonging to the Government is stored, the stout railings are broken down, and most of the big pipes broken and washed into the Harbour. Seven houses have been destroyed by a landslip from Hospital hill, but no-one injured, as the inmates had taken refuge in No.2 Police Station. Indeed it is es-. timated that at least six hundred personswere temporarily accommodated there by Inspector Swanston throughout the storm. A house in Yeung Wo Lane fell injuring a collie seriously. Several boats capsized in the Harbour; one, this morning, was reported to have upset near the Temporary Market, on the Praya, and seven men drowned.
Several persons have been foundwet and destitute in huts on various · parts of the hills, and one or two have died. The Wanchai Gap Road is utterly impassable in twenty places, whilst the Peak Road has escaped with one small landslip, and is quite open. At Whitfield, part of Mr. Chater's bungalow has fallen, and near by, a boat was wrecked against the sea wall and a man drowned. Several of the district sub-stations are rendered uninhabitable,
At Yaumati $800 worth of wood was washed away, and foundstranded on Stonecutters' Island. The Government floating fire-engine has been damaged by junks fouling her during the storm, and has had to be sent to this side for repairs. At the Peak, this morning, a matshed fell," killing one coolie outright and breaking another's back,
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Mr. W. St. John H. Hancock, C.E. estimated that the total weight of water which fell on the Colony, was five and a half million tons or 1,224,988,200 gallons - three times the capacity or Tytam Reservoir.
From the Illustrated London News of November 21, 1874, the story of the typhoon which struck Hongkong on the night of September 22, 1874, is given in brief. Reference to this typhoon has already appeared (See 4/12/33) but the additional details given here should be of interest. Between two thousand and three thousand people lost their lives. Fourteen steamers and merchant vessels in the Harbour were sunk, besides a large number of Chinese junks. Four ships were cast ashore. Among these was the Pacific Mail Steem Company's ship, Alaska, The Spanish steamers Albay and Leonore were sunk off Douglas Lapraik's wharf, Thirty-six men of their crews weresaved by Mr. G. Taufer and his brother, the American engineers of the Hongkong Insurance engine.
Thegunboat H.M.S. Flamer, was thrown up amidst the fragments of the bath-house and boat-house connected with the Hongkong Recreation Company. The Praya was four feet under water and large portions of the sea wall demolished. Huge blocks of granite from this well were tossed against houses on the opposite side of the street. The storm began about six o'clock the next morning. St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church and several other buildings were destroyed.
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Reproduced below is a picture of the Pacific Mail Steam Company's liner Alaska, cast ashore during the typhoon of 1874. One of the many wrecked during the storm is also shown.
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