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Kutimations.

A. S. WATSON & CO.,

IMITED.

ESTABLISHED AJ, 1841,

THE HONGKONG TÌSEORAFH WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 1906.

TYPHOONTM EFFECTS.

PIRATES ON THE "HEUNGSHAN.

BISHOP OF VICTORIA DEAD.

LOOTING AT WANCHAI

Considerable damage was done to the roofs

DOCK LAUNCH DISABLED,.. Oce of the Dock Company's launches bay and verandahs of houses throughout the came disabled near Aberdeen during the stormwestern: district. Houses, Nos, 1 to 19): Praya and she was blown on the beach, where she at Kennedy Town were badly damaged and a present lies. The place where she went, ashore good part of the brickwork in front of the was at the back of the village and quite sear to ground floors was destroyed. the docks.

ON SHORE.

The damage done on shore at Aberdeen and other islands in the vicinity" was not very much. Every matched in the place was des troyed while some ware bodily removed from their fixturas and blown away, The damage done to other more substantial buildings were of a minor degree. A few roofs have collapsed, while others have been damaged by rain. There were no deaths on shore. Trees have been

sea from Aberdeen to Hongkong was littered with wreckage and many upturned junks were seen floating with tha tido.

SUIPPING.

Magnificent Offer by Leaders of the Chinese Community. The cup of lengkong's (ribulation should be | from his launch, swam to the assistance of a almost filled to the brim by the additional junk and rescued the entire family-men, details of havoc and desolation wrought by the

women and children. That is only one example, typhoon. Yesterday's reports of steamers lost, native craf, swamped, and people drowned were sufficiently poignant to barrow the souls assisting in the work of rescuing the drowning, uprooted and the roads caved in. Ait along the for Hongkong. The launch had not got far

to extend relief to these waifs. If the pre- sent moment when the calamity, is fresh in the memory of the public, when the bowls of compassion are opened, and syn- pathy for the sufferers is heard on every side, if this present moment be 'allowed to pass without an appeal' being made to the pockets of those who have not been touched by the disaster, then the typhoon will be for- gotten or only left to linger in the mumoly as an unusual incident, "and appeal after appeal may be issued without effect. Who thinks about the earthquakes at San Fran cisco and Valparaiso now? Who remembers whether the eruption of Vesuvius was this year or five centuries ago? Who will remem ber whether there were ten or ten hundred of those whose calling does not require them to sufferers—women and children-in the go down to the set in ships. It might have been thought that the worst had been told and Hongkong typhoon a month hence? Unless

that the charitably-minded, of whom there is the appeal is issued at once it will be useless.

no lack in Hongkong, might be allowed to After the typhoon of 1900 the then Governpr

concentrate their attention on works of relief. Sir Henry Blake issued an appeal for help But the various statements and accounts glean. on behalf of the sufferers. Wears in a posied to-day reveal in still greater degree the tion fi state authoritatively that the leading members of the Chinese community in Hongkong are prepared-to-day to follow the magnificent and spontaneous example they set for themselves in 1900, and contribute HEALTH-GIVING.adly towards any fand which is

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

RAINIER BEER.

SPARKLING

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INVIGORATING

Daring the Hot Damp Weather when Heavy

Drinks are out of the Question one's thoughts naturally

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tertible sufferings, endured by hundreda who belonged to the Colony, and what is worse expose the presence of human ghouls in the city, battering on the misery of their fellow. creatures.

One of the saddest stories which has to

opened for the relief of the unfortunates of the Bishop of Victoria, the Right Rev be related has reference to the drowning

Mon, we have the authority to state that Joseph Charles Hoare. When we mention. the money is forthcoming the moment Hised yesterday that a number of pleasure Excellency Sir Mattew Nathan says the yachts and "cruisers" had either sunk at theif word. It is therefore to be hoped that at moorings or heen swept by the waves in the the meeting of the Legislative Council 1 direction of Kowloon, there so be dashed to pieces, we file dreant that the Bishop was on mow afternoon delite steps will be ad,

board one of those frail craft when it was caught in the swirl of the storm, and that he was among the missing. Indeed, few in the Colony bad any idea that his Lordship had a

-opted to jiste, either by the Council as a body or Sir Matthew Nathan individually, an appeal on byħall of those who have lost.

their all in the storm. Whether the Govern meni can afford to make an appropriation towards the relief fund is another question.

penchant for boating, and when the news percolated through the community to day it was at first received with open disbelief.

Unfortunately, it seems to be absolutely ces-

but scores of others could be quoted. Right along the Praya, Burepenas and Chinese were

Some of the rescuers were almost in a state of nudity as the result of their exertions,

Another feature which redounds to the credit of Hong kong was the number of junk and sampan people who, after being rescued,, were given quarters, food and clothing fast night. The employes at Jardine. Matheson & Cor sugar refinery brought an fewer than 200 Chi nese boat people ashore, putting forth the most splendid exertions on

their sndco-

your to "save life." Then they found 400

AT SAM-SHUI-PO.

LAUNCHES DAMAGED, On the beach at Samishui-po there now lies over twenty steam launches, some very seriously injured. The majority of the launches are owned by Messrs. Kwong Hip Loong. Curious enough the loss of sampans and junks in this patt was small.

THE "WINGCHAI" ASHORE. While this coinmotion was going on it was seen that the Macao steamer Wingchai was in

Chinese whose only home had disappeared beneath the waves. Accordingly the poor re- fugees were taken and lodged at the sugar refinery, where they almost forgot their losses in the cheer set before them, while another danger. The wind and sea buffetted her about 200 were accommodated at Jardine's godown. I like a cork until she was blown on the beach. The compradores spent the night is providing Before this occurred, however, her passengess were seeri jumping into the sea in large num- the unfortunates with food. At the Faval Vard and Punchaid, Lowther & Co.'s premises bers, but few lived to tell the tale. another hundred or more shivering miserables found a temporary lodging, Indeed, it was a case along the Praya, for únice, of the old tag being reversed, for man's humanity to man made the whole world kin.

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A somewhat fitile effort has been made to estimate the damage done by the ty phoon. Taking everything together, it is calcul.

sted that the damages reach the enormous total of $2000. It is true that twenty

There is not top much money in the exche-in that yesterday mornings the listy, termilios dalis seems as extraordinary amount

quer meet such an extraordinary enter gelley as now confiants the Council, but vertainly the members will be lacking in | heir daty if they simply content themselves Per Case of 1 doz, quarts ...$16.50 with passing plots resolutions on the subject. With regard to the destitutes who should Per Doz, quarts

benefit from a selief fund, we do not suggest Per Case of 6 sloz, pints

Per Do Pints

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16.50

that coole Chinamen should receive a farthing,

There is a' plenitude of work 2.7 for them in the Colony at the present moment. Labour is required immediately

to repair the damage wrought by the ty phoon, and they will not starve. If isthe widows

Bangkong on the "cruiser" Pioneer, in com- pany with the boatman and a "boy" The Pioneer was one of the small craft which was caught in the black, squall. She was driven on the racks at. Castle Peak Bay, and utterly demolished. Not a sign of any of the occupants of the boat has since been seen. Were the

Bishop actually on board the "cruiser" be must inevitably have been drowned, for the Prancer was in the thickest at the gale and not a human soul could have lived in the rea. That is the official or police version,

WATSON & CO., and plans of drowned junk and satin managed to survive the storm, though driven lost 7009 tons of coal and 13 lighters. And it is

ALEXANDIA BUILDINGS!

Hongkong, ath September, 1966.

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DEATH. Aug. 17, at Pedford, Ann MARY FINCHAM, wnlow of late A. Fincham, of Hongkong an Canton, aged 68.

Che Hongkong Gelegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNE DAY, SEPT. 19, 1906.

RELIEF BUND--OPPER BY CHINESE RESIDÁNIS

Now that the ternbly disaster which over-

There is another story-which would lead us to believe that possibly the Bishop may have

men who should be assisted to tide over the

to the greatest strails, it is to the effect that his Lordship was in the habit of journeying on evil day, and the Government will not have

a junk to us outstations and it is suggested ja pleasant record to buast of it it fails to that be followed his usual habit an this occa- undertake its manifest duty, to-morrow by sinn. There is thus a possibility that he may issing an appeal for relief in its own name have outlived the typhoon, and that faint hope or in the name of His Excellency the Gover-is' cherished by his family, who are in the no to which the generous-hearted citizens most ageny of concern. !

On all occasions when a catastrophie has oc at' Hongkong will surely respond in no nig-curred there have not been wanting ghools gardly fashion.

LOCAL AND GENERAL..

It is notified that the Secretary of the Arts an Crafts Exhibition will be in the City Hall on. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 235 to 5 pm. to answer any inquiries in connec- non with the Exhibition.

No change will be made in 1-6-7 in the com- position of the India troops in the Far East.

who reaped their harvest off the dead. i was monted yesterday that bands of vicious tuffians who had escaped the bonds of the waves were taking advantage of the fact that hundreds of junk and sampan people had been drowned, aid that valuable cargo was 10 be pick ed up for the taking. That report is can- firmed by the fact that 8 Chinese were atrested yesterday on a charge of looting. They may congratulate themselves that they are in Hongkong and not in Western America. When a man was found luoting in San Fran. cisco after the earthquake he got short shrift.

SAM-SHUI-PO POLICE STATION DESTROYED.

The police station, of which Sergeant Sims has charge, fared very badly. One gust of wind blew off the verandah, änd a second de molished the charge-room, destroying" every- thing therein. The charge-room clock which was the first to leave, its place has not since been seen.

OTHER DAMAGES.

The back walls of six buildings were

buried the inmate's-two old people. This morning at Fuk Chin Hong village four dead been recovered, the resul bodies have.

of being buried in the debris. Su far, that was all the damage done at Samshuipo. The conduct of Mr. Smith, an employee of the Cosmopolitan Docks, deserves great praise for the assistance he gave the police in having the injured removed to hospital in a launch provided by him.

AT WEST POINT,

GREAT DAMAGE.

West l'oint suffered severely at the hands of the typhorn. To give a detailed account of what occurred in that district would occupy columns. The more important and latest werk. of the storm we give below.

The old Macao steam launch Perciverance was swamped oot very far away from the Col- ony. The assistant engineer of the launch, who was washed ashore near Pokföclum, gave the police his story. He said that the Perseverance, |- while on a voyage to Macao yesterday, on- countered the typhoon when passing Cheung- chau Island. The skipper (a Chinaman) seeing he could not face the gale, turned the launch around and telegraphed "full speed ahead"

when a huge sea swamped her and she sank stern first. · At the time of the swamping of the Perseverance there were twelve passen. gers and twenty of a crew aboard her, but the Assistant engineer was the only one saved. Giving the particulars of how he did not join the others in a watery grave, the engineer said that as soon as he saw there was no hope for his launch he lept overboard. In the water be clung on to a gangway plnnk and was drifted to Sandy Bay,

MORE DAMAGE.

A steam crane and a lighter, the property of the Government were destroyed alongside (he Catile wharf at Kennedy Town, the lighter having been pitched against the sen wall

Eighty-six junks were reported to have either been sunk or destroyed off the Western

district, and up to last night only seventeen persons were missing. The estimated value of the damage done to junks and other small craft and their cargoes in this district along is put down at 593003.

CATTLE DROWNED.

A number of junks, containing large numbers of cattle, were 'discharging their cargo at the. Caule Wharf at Kennedy Town when the

typhoon struck the Colony. They weathered the gale for a short time but the cattle became alarmed and a stampede followed. The junks

Praya wall, knocking them into fragments, Five bullocks were drowned and fur others are missing.

KESCUE PARTY.

Throughout the whole day Inspector Col lett and Sergeant Aris, in company with twenty other officers patroled the Praya and were successful in rescumg eighteen parsons from certain de tbs, at great risk to them- selves.

THE CENTRAL DISTRICT.

The damage done in the Central dis trict was abnormally slight. Part of the second storey of No. 28, Aberdeen Street collapsed, and the' cook-house of No. 336, Queen's Road Castral came down with a

cash, but no lives were los1.

blown away, leaving the other portions were caught in a sea and driven against the to have been lost by a typhoon which was proof the buildings standing, and which it is bably of the shortest duration on record-last expected will collapse ere long. title lower ing only two hours but when the number of down the road another building collapsed and ships irretrivably lost is considered, the num ber of vessels which will have to be repaired, the valuable cargues dispersed to the four ends of the earth, the goods damaged and the go. downs wrecked it will be found that the esti mate is rather noder than over the mark. For instance, the damage to the Kowloon Whart and Dock Company's premises and goods alone amount to $750,0:0, 40,000 bales of yarn in the Company's premises valued at $500,000 were destroyed The Mitsui Bushi Kaisha

safe to say there is no firm of any standing atall and any firms of no tanding whatever-shat

TALE OF THE SEA. has not suttered ly the extraordinary desuuc-

In the Central part of the harbour" the num tiveness, one might say malignity, of the tem- pest. Many private houses also wore the age

ber of sampans that have come to grief was 25 great that the figures could not be procured, pearance of having been through a zeige. The

The roads at West Point are in a terrible But the number of large junks that have roof of the German clauch in Bonham Road was whirled off by the wind. The Dir cesan condition. Connaught Road West, Dea Vaux gone down is said to be fifty. The exact School was damaged; the rain and wird com- Road West (that portion west of the Gas camber of a deaths among sampan folk,' said bined to demolish the school wall and the Works),, the junction of Queen's Road Westa police officer, "can never be ascertained, grounds will require considerable repairs. and Belchers Street, the Fraya at Kennedy The exact number will never come out. There are a large number of simpan people making While the walls of private houses that have Town, the New Praya and Cadogan Street are

very badly damaged, while the sea wall and a reports of missing ones, but what about thos been broken down by falling tices and the

that cannot come to report? The entire private gardens that have disappeared-are in-portion of the roadway at Cadogan Street has

"families living on-sampons-have-perished.and. numerable. The police, state that the known been swept away.

who is to report about them?"

FIRE. damage in Wanchai is not less than $120,000.

Regarding the vessels, we now learn that the fleungahun is ashore, almost hopeless; the Kinshan is beached near Lantau; two French torpedo-boat destroyers have been smashed: o junks which had weathered the storm and were supposed to be safe proved the violence of their experience by falling to pieces inst night; the Ying Fal launch with 130 passengers and

whelmed Hongkong yesterday has passed. The native regiments there are-North China No questions were asked. He was shot on and people have had breathing, tine toast Dogias and 4th 5k65; South China Sight. Here they are anested. Thiny others a crew numbering to on board turned turtle

realise the extent of the destruction wreaked by the typhatan, it will be realised at the Colony has a'duty to perform to those unfor tunates who have been desolated by the

to. This is not the time to cavil uficials on departments about maiters which can be discussed lates, when madreds of the very poorest of mai population are home- less, hopeless and helpless. The native shipping feet has been devastated by an unhappy visitation, the life of which cau hardly be paralleled in the 'anuals of Hongkong, it indeed there be any parallel. The simpans which were formerly one of the igatures of the Colony are 110W

(Hongkong), 19th fola ty and 129th Blu chis; Straits Settlements, 95th Russell's ofan-

ty.

Top RALSIN, Empress of bado which" left Hongkong on the 39th uk, arrived at Vancou ver at 3 pa on Muday, 17th inst. This steamer is the first packet carrying mails ander the accelerated Schedule and the arrival at Vancouver on time will doubtless be interest- ong to the public at large. The mails are due in London on the 28th rast. per Empress of Bijlatu.

Ar the Criminal Sessions which opened this morning before His Honour the Chief Justice, and a jury at the Supreme Court, the charge of mdaslaughter against, Ip Ma-ti and another

WHARVES, ETC. Nearly every what in this district have either been washed away or badly stripped, Those companies that have lost their wharves ure:- Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company, Li Shing Ree, China Merchants Steam Naviga. tion Company, lo On Insurance Company, Sp Yik Company, Pacific Mail S.5. Com pany, and the Catite wharf in Cadogan Street. Street lamps, both gas and electric, were

The undermentioned roads have lost their street lamps:-Connaught Road West, Des Vreux Road West, Praya at Kennedy Town Collinson Street, Hospital Road and Bonham Rund Telephone wires have been destroyed in Western Street, Des Voeux Road West, Queen's Road

were found at the same game at Yasmati. But sildenly and only 2 were rescued; the twisted" into all shapes by the furious wind. these are small sections of the Colony. Whatbotress, running to Mirs Bay, with so pas- abdul Lycemoan whither many junks drifted sengers, sank near the Fa-tu-mun Pass, and two of the crew were rescued, the aud were dashed on the rocks

Valuable cargoes have been scattered alt rest, including Captain Patrick and Engineer around the adjacent coast. The police are Wallace, being drowned; the steamer Hong. gitarding a valuable cargo of silk and other kong sak in the harbour and Captain Mer- gods which landed in the direction of Wan-less, the chief officer and the chief engineer chai, but the police cannot guard everything worn drowned: 200 junks sank at Wanchai and no doubt there are looters at different parts alone; 20 steam laun lies all seriously damn of the island who are reaping a rich reward at aged lie on the beach at Tsam-tsa-tsuj; how many lie under the waters of the harbour it is inípossible to say. Most wonderful of all, 'several lighters belonging to the ship- building yard and sugar house at Shau-ki-wan can be seen lying on the hills at the rear of the harbour!

Their nefarious work.

est and Bonham Road, The trees'and'shrubs in Bonham Road, Pok- foolum Road, Lyttleton Road and Hospital Road have been uprooted and blown away, rendering some of the roads in this district impassable.

The Sanitary Department pumps in Con nanght Road West, Praya West, and Kennedy Town have been displa

The damage done to No. 48, Connaught Road Central by the fire which broke out during the storm was estimated at $1,000. The premises were not insured. The origin of the fire was caused by the overturning of a fire-place by the wind, and the inmates of the bouse, thinking that the place was about to collapse, cleared out, and left the fire burning.

Numerous frees, and whole gardens, 'that were once the pride of their owners, were completely destroyed in this district.

THE NEW TERRITORIES. Definite news from the New Territories has

not reached us at the time of writing, although it is feared they have suffered greatly, P.S. Deveny, of the New Territory, who arrived in the Colony Jast night from She-lio, reports that the entire station (it was only a small wooden but after all] was blown away. The two mat sheds, 10 the east of the station, and which were used for bousing the Indian, police have disap- peared front the earth, the police at present being stationed in any place until a temporary

slation is erected.

The rice crop is ruined, and the damage

SEARCH LIGHTS DESTROYED, The military search-light house on the Praya | done is large.

represented by a few solitary dodos, which details of which we have already published sengers. While the work of rescue was pro- most cases whole families have disappeared to at Kennedy Town was washed into Collinson

was heard.

THE WEATHER.

The flowing report is from Mr. F. G. Figk,

Assistant of the Hongkong Observatory: On the 18th at 12.10, p.s-Signal lowered, On the 19th at 1.9 pin. -The barometer has risen over Japan and in Hongkong, and fallen over Formosa and Lpzon.

may be regarded more in the light of

The Hoa. Sir Henry Berkeley, curiosities than important festores of the R. C. Attorney General, instructed by Mr. G. purt. Yesterday we published reports as E. Moriel, of Messrs Dennys and Bowleys, to the destruction of the junk cand sampain | Gown-51 citer's Office, pinsecuted, prisoners flects, which could only give a bird's-eye bene undefended, the jury returned a verdict view of the situation. In face of the wide of put guilty, and the prisoners were according

ly discharged. spread effects of the storm it was only pos- sible to speak in general terms of the bus- dreds of vessels which were sucked into the sca's maw. And to-day, reports no less ter- rible are coming to barid giving evidence of the ruin and damage, resulting from the typhoon. Residents can see the evidences of the Armageddon of the elements on all ́sides, and they, remembering their duty as members of a civilised community to the weakest survivors, will not be slow to respond to an appeal for relief which, we submit, should be issued by the Government with.. out the slightest delay. There are thousands of women and children who have not a roof above their heads, whose plight is so sore that it is difficult to see how it could be worse. For not only are they homeless but they will probably be starving' unless some- thing is done for them. It will not do for tie Government or any other responsible body to say it is taking time to consider what concerted measures should be taken

typhoon has crossed Luzon and entered the China Sea. It appears to be situated at present to the NW of the island, and to be moving towards W.N.W.

An en of high pressure lies over N. China and the Sea of Japan.

Over the N, part of the China Sea freshening N and M.E. winds are indicated.

Telegraphic communication between the Observatory and Hongkong is interrupted.

FORECAST -Hongkong and neighbourhood, NE. winds, moderate; fair.

2-Formosa Channel, N.R, winds, strong. 3.—South coast of China batween Hongkong and Lamocks, N.E. winds, fresh.

But the tnost dangerous feature that, bas been exposed is the looting of vessels by active passengers. When the Heungshan was wrecked on an island near Lantao, the officers gallantly swam to the mainland with life lees and managed to save the majority, of the pas

ceeding a number of the passengers turned their attention to the baggage on houd, They trusted to fate that their lives were sicure, and the frightened crowd' on board

marauders to

carry out their left the work undisturbed. Then they started to go through the luggage. They apparently were no prentice hands at the game for they'did their work very effectively. When it was seen that the vessel was in no immediate danger, the officers turned on the robbers. All the Europeans on board were armed, whereupon the gang made a bolt for the island carrying with them the booty they had gathered. All night long the Europeans remained on guard

to repulse any attack made by the marauders, but no attempt was made to regain the vessel. One lady whose trunks had been emptied of their effects reached Hongkong in a half- naked condition.

It should not be difficult to mark down these pirates, and if it were possible to give them an example of Chinese law so much the better for humanity at large. Captain Tauts, the Marine Superintendent, of the Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steam boat Company, has gone to the scene.

A brighter vista is opened when we refer to the gallantry displayed on all sides, by Chinese no less than by Europeans. There is not an Inspector in the Police Force who did not endanger his life a score of times yesterday in order to save life. When the typhoon was at its height, Inspector Gourlay sprang overheard

The roll of death will never be known. In

gether and there is none to ask for them. A very few junks drifted out to sea and passing steamers brought the crews to Hongkong.

AT ABERDEEN.

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PEOPLE TERROR-STRICKEN TAKE TO SEA,

Official reports that arrived at police head. quarters from Aberdeen this morning show that the typhoon did not leave them unharmed, Sampans and junks by the hundreds have foundered and as many lives last, though up to the present tew reports of the missing ones have been reported. When the typhoon was at its highest more trouble was added to those of the sampan people by te breaking out of a fire on a fish-drying hulk, which was anchored in their midst. The fire was caused by the overturning of a stove.

SAMIAN PEOPLE CLINGING TO MASTS. There was great pauic among the people and the death-roll was added to by a great number of women and children leaping into the sea in terror, Fortunately the fire did not spread to other beats and the hulk was burst to the water-lipe.

A most appalling scene was witnessed by those on shore, Men, women, and children were seen clinging to the mastr, caling for help. Many were either seriously injured or instantly killed by falling from the masts. The Aberdeen pollee gave all the assistance they possibly could and many lives were rescued by them from sinking buate...

Street and a good deal of the search light fi tings were last Another search-light house

in Connaught Road West was demolished and the apparatus lost. The third search-light house at the junction of Des Vicux Rond West and the Praya at Kennedy Town has disappeared, and it is the opinion of the police that it is at the bottom of the sea,

GREAT DAMAGE TO THE TRAMS, Anyone would have thought that a tramcar would be able to withstand the force of the wind. But this does not appear to be so. When the storm was at its highest a number of cars were tied up along the line on the Prayn at Kennedy Town. They shook and shivered for a while until a fierce wind blew them off the track with such force that they crashed against the houses near by. Car No. 14 is badly damaged. Window panes blown out as if they were leathers, and the seats and fittings were washed into the houses, near which the cars collided. The other two cars ahhough badly damaged, cannot compare with that suffered by car 14 The trolley wires and some of the posts in Chater Street have snapped.

AT SHAU-KI-WAN.

THE LOSS OF "THE ALBATKOSB," Here, 30 first-class fishing junks, several marriage boats, a few fish drying bulks, and a considerable number of small, craft, were destroyed. Up to this morning 29 bodies have have been picked up in the bay.

The steam launch Kwang Lea and two others are high and dry nears Belle View Botel.

The launch Albatross, Capt. Falrick and Enginser Wallace, which plies between this port and Sha U Chung was reported to have capsized near the Nina Pina, in Fu-ta-mun lass, during the storm yesterday. There were 150 passengers on board the vessel at the time. Out of that number only six passengers and two members of the crew were rescued by a fishing junk. They were found floating on some wreckage and taken to kau-ki-wan Police Station. When questioned as to the fate

of the ethers the men said the others had perished. Up to late this afternoon no word had been received from either Capt. Patrick or Engineer Wallace, and the only conclusion one can possibly arrive at is that they went down with the ship.

AT QUARRY BAY.

BUILDINGS DESTROYED. The Langkat Oil Company's godown, of which Messrs. Geo. McBain and Company are the agents, collapsed during the storm. The

THE DEATH, ROLL- godown in Chaler Street, now the property of

In the

Quarry Bay shipyard all the matsbeda Mesers. Jebsen and Company, formerly the old Feather Factory, was also caxed to the ground, and wooden huts were destroyed,