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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 1906.

TYPHOON IN HONGKONG.

ENORMOUS LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY.

MANY EUROPEANS DROWNED.

SYMPATHETIC MESSAGE FROM THE KING.

LEADING CHINESE INAUGURATE RELIEF FUND.

was at its height a serious fire broke out in

TYPHOON RAVAGES.

siderably subsided, there were all the evidences the beach was strewn with debris, while at both of the sinking of sampaha and junks at their'den of the pier floated the remains of the mooring, before they had had time to get Junks and sampana, away to shelter, and if further testimony were A Chinese water junk fou- dered not far off.. asedad of the excessive loss among the smaller At Causeway Bay damage was not so severa craft, it was to be found in the groups of wall- as was at first anticipated. But for the tearing ing women, gathered in clusters near the up of a few trees and destroying of a few boats locality of the disappearance of their only la the anchorage, not much damage occurred. means of livelihood.”

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ON SHORE.

Coming down the Praya, from West to Eas, And looking at the landward side again scenes of the devastating havoc of the typhoon were manifest, for shop signs were blown down, the mal erections in front of the Central Market, in Des Vœux Road, were entirely wrecked,

, and for the most part carried while as for the mat enclosure, and workmen quarters surrounding the site of the Naw Post Office, now is course of erection, they were entirely demolished, a very large quantity of the matting and bamboos being blown into the

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THE C. P. R. OFFICE

During the boight of the blow the staff of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company bad their attention equally divided between the ordinary routine of the office work, and the dying debris being swisted against the windows,

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BOY KILLED.

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In the anchorage, it was reported that a little sampan bay was instantly killed at about 10 jo o'clock this morning. The mast of one of the boats alongside snapped and fell on him, fracturing his skull.

KUROPEAN'S NARROW ESCAPE.

A European gentleman has to bless his stars for the narrow escape he had. He was driv ing along in a rickiba at the time, thinking every moment the vehicle would be overturned To be on the safo side he had the hood down, When passing the Royal Naval Hospital a large, free collapsed and came thandering down on the ricksha. Had the ricksha been going past at that moment the tree would have struck the fare on the head, but instead of that it dropped on the mud-guard, tearing it off, and rolled off knocking down the coolie. No in juries resulted.

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details of havoc and desolation wrough divathe typhoon. Yesterday's reports of steamy ost native craft swamped, and people' 'drowned were sufficiently poignant to harrow the souls of those whose calling does not require them to go down to the sea in ships it might have been thought that the worst had been told and that the charitably-minded, of whom there la no lack in Hongkong, might be allowed to concentrate their attention on works of relief, But

the various slatements and accounts glean- to-day reveal in still greater degree the terrible sufferings endured by hundreds who belonged to the Colony, and what is worse expose the presence of human ghouls in the city, battening on the misery of their fellows creatures.

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One of the saddest stories which has to be related has reference to the, drowning of the Bishop of Victoria, the Right Rev.

When we mention-. Joseph Charles Hoare. ed yesterday that a number of pleasure yachts and "cruisers" had elther sunk at their moorings or been swept by the waves in the direction of Kowloon, there to be dashed pieces, we little dreamt that the Bishop was on board one of those frail craft when it was caught in the swirl of the norm, and that he was among t the missing. Indeed, few in the FLYING SIGNBOARDS.

Colony bad any idea that bis Lordship had a until the climax was reached, when a bamboo,

Queen's Road East was a very dangerous penchant for boating, and when the news as thick as a man's thumb was sent hurtling like on arrow through the air, finding its target in place at that time, for native sign-boards were percolated through the community to-day it was the window of the office looking on to Fedder being, hurled all over the place. Several per at first received with open disbelief.

sons were injured by these flying missiles, and Street, which it pierced with the report of a

* || it, was said a native woman had her leg broken. pol shot, followed by the sound of falling

FAMILIES DISCOMFORTED, glass, for it had completely demolished the by one of these signs. pre-ass window, measuring 13 feet square,The damage done to private residences in

by half an inch thick, while the big opening then caused provided an inlet for the heavy gust of wind following, which it was not slow to take advantage of, playing havoc with the assistants' desks, to say nothing of the large pictures hanging on the wall, Messrs. Falconer also suffered a slight damage from the same

couse.

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QUEEN'S ROAD FLOODÈN

The entire length of Queen's Road, As far as the eye could reach, east and west, was faded, the water pouring down live sluices, from the heights above, while many of the shops which had had the tementy to keep open their doors were flooded to the depth of several EAST POINT.

.GREAT DAMAGE.

this district was the means of driving a few Europeans out of their houses. In one house the kitchen chimney collapsed and dropped into the kitchen, damaging the stove and de The great noise cauted by this collapse so stroying the tiffin that was being prepared. greatly scared the inmates that they made for the street, thinking perhaps that the building was in danger of collapsing.

The basement of Wild Dell" was flooded with several feet of water, and many houses in this district have had their walls cracked,

́ILOWN INTO THE HAFHOUR. News reached this office this afternoon to the effect that a Chinaman was drowned near Ship Street during the storm. He was walking along the praya when a gust of wind knocked him down and he was carried into the harbour by the force of the wind, disappearing imme diately.

Unfortunately, it seems to be absolutely cer lain that yesterday morning the Bishop left longkong on the craiser" Ploneer, in com pany with the boatman and a "boy." The Pioneer was one of the smail craft which was caught in the black squall. She was driven on the rocks at Castle Peak Bay, and utterly demolished. Not a sign of any of the occupants of the boat has since been seen. Were the inevitably have bean drowned, for the Pioneer Bishop actually on board the "cruiser" he must

was in the thickest~of the gale and not a human soul could have lived in the sea. That is the official or police version.

There is another story-which would lead us to believe that passibly the Bishop may have managed to survive the storm, though driven to the greatest straits. It is to the effect that his Lordship was in the habit of journeying on a funk to his outstations and it is suggested that he followed his usual habit on this occa- sion. There is thus a possibility that he may have outlived the typhoon, and that faint hope is cherished by his family, who are in the utmost agony of concern.

18th inst to save them; they were beyond help, and It proved a most difficult task to collect In the abort space of barely, two hours people on land could only look on at the all the data regarding the damage caused this morning, a typhoon of phenomenal velo- agonising, faces of the native crews. It is by the typhoon and there must be many city swept over Hongkong, laid great part ofthe possible to say how many boats have gone incidents and losses which have not come city in ruins, annihilated the fleet of ship down-they simply disappeared in crowds to light. For instance, when the type in plug which has been the Colony's pride and, of course, not one was saved, and worked unexampled destruction to hun- A gallant incident which occurred at Des Voeux Road and was extinguished with dreds. To-day, the shipping which proudly about this stage cannot be deemed too difficulty by the Brigade. Again, a China. lay at anchor is mostly under the face of praiseworthy, A Chinaman was walking woman had her leg broken through a the waters, or lying disabled, useless and all along the Praya- near Blake Pier, when falling matshed, and one of the large but worthless wrecks at the wharves. The whirling gust of wind caught him up and plate" glass windows of the C.P.R. was A tree fell in Arsenal Street great fleet of junks and sampane has been heaved him into the sea. There were some smashed. sinashed to atoms and is gone. Hundreds Indian constables on the scene but they and injured a civilian who was passing of lives have been lost, hundreds are home could do nothing. It seemed the height of in a ricksha at the time and a gust of less, and so vast has been the damage that it folly, even madness, to attempt a rescue, but wind blew in the door of the Soldiers' and will never beabsolutely determined. Neverina young European named Mr. H. S. Bevan, Sailors' Institute. But these are minor mat. the history of the Colony has such a calamity who is employed with Mesers. Lane, Crawford ters when compared with the holocaust in overtaken her prosperity, and never did and Co., rushed forward, stripped off his shipping, the destruction of the small craft damage and destruction even approaching waterproof and obtaining a turban from an and the homeless widows and children who that wrought by the typhoon this morning Indian who gripped it against a pier dived are left to mourn their irreparable loss. In send half the Colony into the direst distress into the sea. It was a magnificent example two hours the typhoon brought ruin, wreck and brought the entire shipping population of unselfishness, with the seas crashing and disaster to the greater portion of the 'face to face with gaont ruin.,

against the frame of the Pier. He managed native community in Hongkong, and inflict. The typhoon was only of about two hours to grab the Chinaman by one of his ed grave damage on the property of all the duration but its career was catastrophic. 1t legs, and together they were pulled to principal shipping firms. May longkong came down with a swiftness that could the steps of Blake Pies. Mr. Bevan was be spared from a similar visitation for many scarcely be imagined and it raged with a badly braised by being dashed against the days to come.

inches. The total loss cannot be less than ferocity which carried everything before it.Pier stanchions but the rescue, one of the Practically a score of coasting steamers are most plucky that could well be imagined, $2,000,000.

The spectators who either attic bottom of the sea or almost hope. had been effected. lessly damaged; two British gunboats are witnessed the entire proceedings were too

ENORMOUS' DAMAGE. disabled; a French gunboat has been incapaci dumbfounded by this instance of gallantry tated; every wharf in Hongkong and Kow. to do more than stand amazed. If anyone

DETAILS OF THE CATASTROPHE, toon is damaged, the native matched moorever deserved the Royal Humane Society's ing grounds being wrecked and scattered to medal Mr. Bevan certainly does and it will

Taking the opportunity of a lull in the wea. the winds, while of the native craft it is be a disgrace to the community if his action

ther, our representative made a tour of inspec heartrending to speak.

not authoritatively represented to the tion along the Praya, starting from the Star Dawn broke this morning dull, wet Society. The Chinaman received first-aid Perry wharf, and going west. The first sight and threatening, For several days, it has from Mr. Osborne, and departed home little to attract attention was the twisted electric been feared that a typhoon was in the the worse for his immersion. Mr. Bevan, light-post at the foot of Ice House Road and

IN THE NAVAL YARD. vicinity, but no inkling of its proximity could however, had to go to hospital but it is not the fallen telegraph pole at the junction.

The damage done in the Naval Yard and be obtained. Yesterday, the weather foreconsidered that the bruises he sustained are: Duddell Street and Queen's Road, which in

falling snapped some wires on the opposite the Extension is al present not known, but cast for Hongkong was Variable winds, serious, moderate, probably some thunder showers." Great cargo junks were going down on all side. Battery Path was closed to traffic, except rumour said the damage was considerable, f for athletes and enthusiasts, by number of the Naval Yard seven junks and a yacht foun- Shipmasters in the harbour kept an anxious sides, the sampans had mostly all dis- fallen trees. Coming to the Fraya, or Condered, and it is reported a few of the crew are eye on the typhoon signal station, prepared appeared and native women were weeping naught Road, Central, the locality of the Fear missing.

No and wailing on the Praza The harbour Ferry's Wharf met the eye, but while the wooden for any emergency that might arise." danger signal was hoisted, however, and no wall was already a mass of wreckage where ftaaring remained, it may be tersely said that the wooden craft had been smashed to that was all that did remain, the matshed "wait danger was apprehended. //.

ing-room, ticket office, and book-seller's stall splinters.

But it was now seen that the larger vessels, ried into the sea. E veen that wharf, and the having all been blown down, and partially car. the liners and river boats were furing no next the sea was littered with debris of all sorts, better than the small craft, or at least the showing the first signs of the terrible damage, shipmasters were experiencing the greatest done in the harbour, for it was unmistakeably struggle of their lives. On the Kowloon the remnants of smashed-up sampans, and side of the harbour it seemed as if every small boats. Blake Pier was unrecognizable, other steamer was to be totally lust. The for the whole of the mat superstructure had

their pelarious work, gone down, a considerable quantity being blown S. V. Hicheek, an American ship of 2,086 into the sen, only to add to the already tre tone, was lying near the Kowloon Wharf and mendous amount of wreckage floating beside Godown Company's premises. She was the pier, The Douglas wharf bad her gates caught up like a cockle shell and swept blown down, but escaped further damage, as right over the quay wall, where her stern there was no matshed on the structurs. From lies high and dry.

At five minutes past eight the typhoon" gun was fired and five minutes later the black ball was banging from the yard of H.M.S.

Jamar.

Immediately there was a scene of bustling activity among the junk and sampan people, making ready to secure a safe anchorage at the typhoon shelter before the storm burst. The wind was comparatively light at that time but sudden black squalls which blew through the streets and whistled in the shrouds of the shipping heralded the rapid approach of the cyclone. Usually it is pos- sible for the smaller craft to make the typhoon shelter in safety between the time the typhoon gun is heard and the full fury of the gale has burst on them.

there, on to the Yaumati Ferry wharf, it was one

At Kowloon Bay, a Star Ferry boat and a tale of deplorable desolation and destruction.

Every wharf was destroyed in greater or Union water boat are lying damaged. An iron less, degree, some of them having broken in lighter may turn turtic before the night is half and then smashed up, the debris floating The Signal is ashore at West Point around in the turbulent sea, amidst junk spars, over,

a rock, while the masts with their saifs attached, and, the ruins where she drifted on Changsha has a list of 45 degrees, lying of the be-typhooned sampans. Along the alongside the Dock Company's wharf. The Praya, from the Harbour Office, going West, darsogan was dashed against the quay wall the scene was a pathetic and deplorable opt, and foundered. The Johanne has her stern piles of boards, spars, beams, boxes, and anils literally formed a barrier right across the road, under water and a salvage boat is pumping hundreds of yards, testifying to the im her clear as fast as the water comes in while mense, the almost incalculable number of sam there is a West River boat ashore which pans and junks that had been destroyed past is expected to break in two. The British all redemption. There were bags of flour, steamship Afontergh, of 3,953 100s, went on bags of grain, cases of tea, and packages of all descriptions of general cargo lying out in the the,beach near the V. R. C.

torrential rain, amongst the scene of destruc- tion, and lying

the mercy of wind, weather and wastrels.

DAMAGE TO SHIPPING.

THE S.SSAN CHEUNG."

East Point did not escape the fury of the storm, although there was less wreckage float ing in that part of the harbour than in the Central and Western districts.

A Hongkong Telegraph reporter was assigned to cover that part of the towo, commencing from the "Sine Ferry Wharf and going Eastward. Along that part of the Praya near the Cricket Ground bamboo piers had either been entirely destroyed or removed bodily from the praya wall.

IN QUEEN'S ROAD.

Turning into Queen's Read more signs of demage were visibly in evidence. Huge trees berdering the cricket ground had been up. 100ted and lay across the mad. Garden Rond was blocked for several hours by fallen trees and the obstruction stood several feet high. Nearly every second tree in Queen's Road was lying across the street, making transportation diflcult.

** THE PRAYa East.

Thousands of people lined the front of the Praya wall looking at the wreckage floating on the water and the sampan people sorting out their property. Just before the commencement of the storm several coal junks were alongside a whari, quite near the Praya East. When the wind fresbened the junk people made no attempt to leave the wharf, and it

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lute when they had made up their minds to go. The coolics were told to stop loading the junks, and one junk in part cular cast of her fastenings and proceeded to move out. She bad not got len yards away from the wharf when. a strong gust of wind caught her amidships and drove her violently against the head of the wharf smashing her to atoms. The other junks that remained alongside the wharf, devoid of a crew, received the same if not worse treatment from the sea and wind. They were driven against the wharf with such violence as to completely de- stroy them,

The suddenness of the storm caught the sampan people unawares, and in consequence, it is estimated that no less than 100 sampans had foundered at East Point alone.

A pitiable sight was witnessed in this district. Kundreds of sampan people assembled on the praya wall regardless of the torrential down. pour bewailing the loss of the little they once possessed. Women and children ran up and down the Praya wall tearing their hair and weeping in a most heart-sending manner, while the men inik gathered in bands and conversed over their misfortune. Although it is known that many members of the floating fraternity had been drowned, yet, al the present, no ac counts are obtainable as to the exact number that perished.

THE TRAM SERVICE.

On all occasions-when a catastrophe has oc- The electric tramcar service was entirely discurred there have not been wanting ghouls

account of the over-head who reaped their barvest off the dead. It wa organized or wires being destroyed in some places, and mooted yesterday that bands of vicious rufflane who had escaped the bonds of the wAYCH WOTD the trams were tied up all along the line. Telephone and electric light posts were torn taking advantage of the fact that hundreds of up in different places, some overbanging across junk and sampan people had been drowned, the street very dangerously,

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AT LYEEMOON BARRACKS. At Lycomoon all the military buildings and temporary erections were demolished and the men are now, quartered in the casemates,

THE CALMI.

Everything was as peaceful as could be ai East Point this afternoon. The sun later shone forth and the sampan folks were busy at work selecting their property from great heaps and thinking of building new homes.

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ON THE UPPER LEVELS. None could imagine the destruction and damage which have been done to the mass of foliage and trees which hasbeen one of the attractions of the city. The roads are littered with debris. Scarcely a private garden remains the scene is wholly rain and desolation. Trees of great girth and size were uprooted by the wind, harled through the air and flung hitter and thither like snowflakes. Robinson Road is all but unrecognisable; fores! giant fie on every-side among the pot plants-and flowers of the neighbourhood.

ad that valuable cargo was to be pick cd up for the taking, "That report is con- firmed by the fact that 18, Chinese were arrealed yesterday on a charge of leating, They may congratulate themselves that they are in Hongkong and not in Western America. When a man was found footing in San Fran cisco after the earthquake be got short shrift. No questions were asked. He was shut on sight Here they are arrested. Thirty others were found at the same game at Yaumati. But these are small sections of the Colony. What about Lyeemoon whither many junks drifted and were dashed on the rocks?

Valuable cargaen have been scattered all around the adjacent coast. The police are guarding a valuable cargo of silk and other gods which landed in the direction of Wan. chai, but the police cannot guard everything and no doubt there are lantern at different parti of the island who are reaping a rich reward at

But, the most dangerous Teature that has been exposed in the looting of vessels by Dative passengers.. When the Haungskan was In Seymour Road a free was uprooted on the wrecked on an island near Lantas, the afficers higher level and it crashed down in the parapet gallantly swam to the mainland with life lines. wall of house in Seymour Terrace partly and managed to save the majority of the pas- demolishing the wall. The remainder of the Tsengers. While the work of rescue was pro thoroughfare is blocked with all manner of ceeding a number of the passengers turned debris, trees of every size and description their attention to the baggage on board. They trusted to fate that their lives were blocking the route

Alany Caine Road the first sign of destrac-secure, and the frightened crowd on beard carry out their tions on a large scale was found at Glenwood, left the marauders to Mrs. Gillanders boarding house, where a huge work undisturbed. Then they started to go no prentice hands at the game for they did branch was torn off the trunk of a tree and through the luggage. They apparently were smashed on the electric wire, which went with

their work very effectively. When it was seen the force of the concussion until it lay within

that the vessel was in no immediate danger, a few feet of the heads of passers-by. The

the officers turned on the robbers. All the telephone wires were hanging in every con-

Europeans on board were armed, whereupon ceivable position.

the gang made a bolt for the island carrying with them the booty they bad gathered. All night long the Europeans remained on guard to repulse any attack made by the marauders, but no attempt was made to regate the vessel. One lady whose trunks had been emptied af their effects reached Hongkong in a half. naked condition. It should not be difficult to mark down these pirates, and if it wern possible to give them an example of Chinese law so much the better for bumanity at large. Captain Innes, the Marine Superintendent, of the Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steam. boat Company, has gone to the scene.

Near the entrance to the Italian Convent a beautiful example of the magnolia species, a tree of great age, and belonging to the private garden of Mr. J. M. A. da Silva, was torn up by the tools, and collapsed over the electric wires there, carrying away the parapet wall af the building.

"Glenealy " "was robbed of its chief charms, At the entrance to the Roman Catholic Cathe- dral, the beautiful traveller's palms with its fan- like fronds were uprooted and utterly destroyed,

FATALITY AT KOWLOON. The latest intelligence received this after noon, of the effects of the typhoon, is that the French gunboats Frondeand Francisque were driven ashore in Yaumati Bay. While there, endeavouring to do the best for themselves, a cargo steamet, name al time of going to press unascertainable, was driven right on to the Fronde, causing the death, as it is reported. of twenty members of the crew, either from injury in the collision, or from drowning,

A BRAV• ACT.

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On this occasion there was no breathing space allowed. Springing from the west the typhoon approached with amazing velo city. At 8.30 the typhoon had begun, and the retreat of the native floating population was shut off; they were caught in the throus of the storm like sheep in a slaughter-pen.

The big liners, which have usually manag. ed by the aid of skilful handling to ride out the typhoons, had made everything snug, and awaited the onslaughter with a certain degree of anxiety but full confidence in the

The Emma Luyken took the ground 10 ability of the navigating officers to fight the attack. They had little time before they the vicinity of Arnhold Karberg's oil works were in a position to realise that they were and was followed by the &. S. de Rosario to meet probably the worst typhoon which and the Neil Macleod, both of which came! has struck the Colony for many years, down to Hongkong from Manila. Most of the liners were at their moorings in H.M.S. Moorhen is lying in a bad position The s.4. Sam Cheung, Captain McGinty, was the centre the harbour; the river-boats in the Naval Yard, basin and is said to be lying at her wharf, when the full force of the were rocking at their ropes tied to the somewhat seriously damaged. It is also typhoon struck her, but far some reason she Canton and Macao wharves; the miserable reported that other two British gunboats, was unable to get up steam and get out into sampan people were huddled together in naval reserves, which went out to render as the open harbour, consequently she was en. batches, half a hundred boats packed help sistance had themselves to be beached. Alitely at the mercy of the burnping junks lessly together here and another half hun French torpedo boat is ashore at the tor-alongside, with the result that her pon and starboard bows were stove in, be dred there, waiting for the inevitable. pedo depot.

tween the junks, floating beams, and the Passing No. 2 Police Station the road was At nine o'clock or thereby the wind roared The Edith, tow boat belonging to the wharf. It was not long before she filled with dearly blocked by the crowds of sampan people through the Colony. The rain had become Dock Company, lost her propeller, but is water, and after rolling about helplessly for a awaiting their turn to see the inspector and te dagger darts biting with the sting of a otherwise undamaged. The Strathmore while at 12.10 p.m. she turned over to port, and art their loss.

then settled down. Immediately afterwards, The big glass door of the Sailors' Institute 60-mile gale. Rapidly the sea swelled and whose repairs, following her collision with she broke her back and at 12.30 p.m. there was was blown in and fimmense sign-boards were

During the full force of the typhoon joined in

this morning, an act of great bravery was the gale's wild shouting, the Serta, had just been finished yesterday but little more than her funnel and the deck-tom down from their places. Foam rose to the height of the princely when she left the dock, was run into by an house visible above the water. Captain The coal godowas facing the waterfront witnessed by those on or in the vicinity houses along the Praya front

other steamer and badly damaged. The McGinty was on board, and stood by till the last suffered badly. Tang Lap Ting's

1t Consider commendation. appears that Mr. H. Long before this the Star Ferry boats had Loongsang, af the Indo-China Steam Navi- moment, but when she, b oka her back and bad part of the roof blown off, white Redown of Blake Pier, and one worthy of the highest Some of the rescuers were ainïast in a state of

S. Bevan, an employee of Messrs. Lane, Craw- ceased running. The cars to the Peak had gation Co., collided with the Chipshing but there was nothing further for him to do, he able damage was done to the walls; as was stopped, and the stream of pedestrians to we understand no serious damage was done. Krabbed the ship's papers, and with the aid the case with another godown-said to be ford and Company, when passing, saw a China. man struggling in the water just below the their offices and business houses. had dis The Fatshan is high and dry at Kowloon of a rope and a bamboo he managed to get owned by a Japanese firm-adjoining it.

A report, which is at present unconfirmed, was pier. Calling an indian constable, who bap. pened to be near to him, he told him to take appeared. In the city the first ravages of Bay, but before reaching her bed she fouled ashore, though he returned later for some other

current this afternoon to the effect that several

off his turban which the latter did when Mr. the storm quickly became apparent. Trees the French mail liner the Polynesien, near Papers which he wished to secure.

A very pathetic circumstance conneted with coolies, who were passing while the damage

Bevan, scizing one end, without hesitation, were uprooted with giant force and fung Tsim Tsa Sui.. It is believed that the pro- the destruction of this vessel was that the was being done to the coal godowns received into the streets. The sedan chairs from the pellor of the last named vestel is damaged, owner was standing on the wharf near his some very serious injuries through the flying plunged into the sea to the Chinaman's rescue, He got hold of the drowning man, and signalled to the constable to haul them up. higher, levels were being swept from point to but no particulars are yet obtainable. It vessel, and when he saw her turn over and bricks, which covered the whole street.

The latter was unable to do this alone, so by debris from the sam point, the coolies, powerless to withstand the should be noted, however, that the depar break, he was heard to murmur "$50,000 gone About 300 yards lower down the road

secured of others, force of the gale, being tossed to and fro like ture of the Plynesien is postponed until 8 for one hour's storm," and then he fainted, was blocked

Being surrounded by his fricadshe was immedia pans, and persons proceeding further down

canwhile keeping his man afloat. They were leaves in the breeze. Gates and shutters a.m. to-morrow. The Apenrade is reported rely attended to, and upon being brought round had to cross over this mountain of wood,

eventually hauled up, when it was found that were caught up and swept into the streets so damaged. The Radnorshire is damaged but was taken to his office, where, it was learned, The sampans here, ware smashed against that a perfect fusilade rattled and endangered proceeding to Dock under her own steam, he fainted again, but was quite recovered at the praya wall and the waves cast the remains Mr. Bevan had suffered some injury either io his dive or in the water, and collapsed soon. on shore. the lives even of those who had secured Besides the Fatshant damaged, the river last reports.

Several launches were rendered hors deas he reached terra firma. Friends, however, safety in houses,

boats, affected by the gale were the Sau But a terrible scene was being enacted in Cheng which turned turtle at her moorings! Proceeding further west, the next thing, after combat when the storm was blowing its full soon gathered about him and he was taken care of, while the rescued man was profuse the harbour, to the horror of all spectators. and is believed to have broken her back, the the debris of sampans had been clambered force. The Tung Tai Treung Kee Co's steam The flimsy roofs of the Star Ferry, Blake Kwongchow foundered, and the Sana Lee over, to draw the attention was the ss. Shun Les launch Tung Tal was on her way for shelter in his expression of gratitude. This is the at Yaumali Ray when she was caught midway second gallant act of rescue we bays had to which had her starboard side stove in, and and was forced to return. Her funnel was record within the last few days, and it is such being.reverand, for man's. humanity to man Pier and all the wharves along the Praya, foundered. the native structures surrounding the Post

A regular liner is ashore at Yuen Fat was rapidly filling with water and sinking.

removed bodily, the awning was ripped to brave acis as these that are deserving of the shreds and carried away, while the stanchions fullest recognition in the proper quarters, Offices, and Supreme Court now in course of liong's wharf, and a Japanese boat is stated. The as, Kwong Chow, which had only just were bent and twisted in all directions. With erection had afforded amusement to the to have gone on the rocks at Kellett's Island arrived from Canton, left her mosring for the considerable difficulty, and with several feet of FIRATES ON THE "HEUNGSHAN." ribald, but or the sea, which was now lashed Launches sank at every point. The Dock open harbour, but foundered on the other side, water in her engine-room, the Tung Tai was into tempestuous fury, lives were being Company lost four-Nos. 1, 3, 6, and 13, but no lives, as far as could be ascertained, brought back and moored opposite the Royal sacrificed by the score. The gimcrack besides having a wharf damaged...

Naval Canteen, There were many other PARTIER WEST. At Aberdeen the Brand was at a buoy

launches-several smaller than the Tung Tai sampans and the unwieldy junks were turning boltom upward all over the harbour. when the Robert Cooke was sent down to her Passing the damaged wharves, some of which that received severe treatment at the Ifthey attempted to reach the Praya wall they assistance. The Brand refused the pro. had but little remaining worthy the name bands of the cyclone, but their names not be distinguished- a low were caught in bunches and flung with ferred help but later in the day begged for it of wharf, the evidence of damage to the could

Chinese harbour craft became even moro were too far out, and those that were ungovernable rage against the stone copings, when she was told that the Robert Cooke appalling, for the wreckage was piled, three and near enough had a severe list. and everyone on board given to the insatiable was too busily engaged standing by the four feet high across the Praya itself, while in- The wreckage near the military pier, facing. maw of the sea. Nothing could be done' Empress of Japan which oścaped damage, the sea below, which, by this time, had con Obarrvation Place, was enormous. All along

were lost,

THE "SHUN LEE.

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MAGNIFICENT OFFER BY LEADERS OF THE CHINESE COMMUNITY.

igth inst. The cup of Hongkong's tribulation should be almost filled to, the brim, by the additional

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 overboard. from his launch, swam to the assistance junk and rescued the entire family-men, women and children. That is only one example, but scores of others could be quoted. Right along the Praya, Europeans and Chinese were assisting in the work of rescuing the drowning. nudity as the result of their exertions.

Another feature which redounds to the credit of Hongkong was the number of junk and sampan people who, after being rescued, were given quarters, food and clothing last night. The employes at Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s sugar refinery brought an fewer than zoo Chi- nese beat people ashore, putting forth the most splendid exertions on their endea vour to "save life." Then they found 400 Chinese whose only home had disappeared beneath the waves. Accordingly the poor zo

sugar feinery, where they almost forgot their foga in the cheer set before them, while another 200 were accommodated at Jardine's gadawa. The compradores spent the night in providing the unfortunates with food. At the Naval Yard and Punchard, Lowther & Co.'s premises anotber hundred or more shivering miserables casa along the

the Praya, for once, of the old tog found a temporary lodging: Indeed, it was a

made the whole world kin,

A somewhat futile effort has been made to estimate the damage done by the ty. phoon. Taking everything together, it is calcul aled that the damages reach the enormous total of $10,000,000. It is true, that twenty million dollars seems an extraordinary amount to have been lost by a typboon which was prov bably of the shortest duration on record-est- ing only two hours-but when the number of ships irretrivably lost, is considered, the nom. ber of vassals which will have to be repaired, the valuable cargoes dispersed to the four ends of the earth, the goods damaged and the go. downs wrecked it will be found that the eth

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