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Intimations.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY JULY 28 1908.

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DISASTROUS TYPHOON IN HONGKONG.

as it does, within the space of a

Taolai Wen had a prominent hate in FOUNDERING OF THE YING KING" was allowed to steer, its own course afer disaster which bafell the Power

the counsels of his patron when this scheme was being framed, but the action of the British Minister at Peking in retailing to the memory of the Government the terms of the Agreement under which the Kowloon Canton railway was to be constructed geve the quietus to the Viceroy's plan. As every Sum during his term at Canton is aware,

body who watched the career of Viceroy

WITH 300 PASSENGERS.

H,M.S. “WHITING" ASHORE AT LYEEMUN.

with cleillans and members of the tramway fillar Polat when the staff want to the assistance of the frightened height. The vessel was Chinese Inspector Feator and Sergeant to Canton and being hel Daveny directed operations and ten lives were classes of the Chinelo saved by the exertions of the rescours. This cause of ber sailing power ga’lant act, was accomplished when the gale, of being probably the lur was in a paroxysm of fury, and when the lives was sure to have had of those on land, were in almost as much dan. uotwithstanding the wea ger an those who were seeking assistance. The that, and it sailed away towards Lyeemun Fast, the Ying King will come as a shock Several jonka lying in Jardine's camber at East number of people who travel backwards, and Point broke from their moorings and driven by farwaldu between Canton and Hongkong. were alongside Taiping wharf at West Point in the harbour was making ready to anco wind which had verred right round drilled THE SHIPPING. Y away in a westerly direction. Six junks which Long before the severe blow be

sallied forth from Blake Plot there was so were hurled against the quay-wall and sunk the storm. When the afternoon bathing parti fi ty lives were naved by the effort of the police outcalm which preceded (bestorm. at No 2 Station alone.dk

STEAMERS STRANDED AT STONECUTTERS. Altogether it is estimated that no less than

SCORES OF HOUSES COLLAPSE IN HONGKONG

AND KOWLOON.

surrender by the storn,

ACCIDENT, AT KINGSCLERE, he catalogue of accidents and house col- lap-es would caly fill a moderately-sited ancyclopedia. One of the most distressing which has been recorded so far occurred who is only 13 years of age, was 10 1.Kingsclere, where a young Englishman, recicly injured, that his life is despaired of Mr. E. 8. K. Hunt, who was formerly manager of the Pharmacy in Hongkong, was in his room at Kirgsclere when the roof suddenly crashing through the ceiling. Hust's cived in and falling on the upper floor wept doom, The masonry, jobs and part of the furniture in the roon above, including the bed stend, le I upon Mr. Hunt, burying him com boarders who ran to his assistance, while a hurry call was sent to the police headquarters fospector Baker was on the scene in the shortest possible time and managed to remove the last fragments of debris which covered the young legs and both arms were broken, one of the legs man. It was found on examination that both being crushed to a pulp. He was removed to the hospital, but give feals are notertained as to his recovery.

began shipping

the

hour of the evening the fleet of sam lighters and launches begin to make for shel ter and when light fall, the refuge at Causeway Pay was full of the lighter craft, while i mat: Bay and behind Stonecutters veasels that hid sought shelter there impending storm be privately-owned steel, gatlog everything in preparation lighters and the deep-sea janks sought the. safely of Yauma 1 Bay. In the bay to the north-east of Stonecutters Mr. Mox motor-latsch, which the doomed to es hour of the afternoon. Not a fundred

ine tion later, was safely at anchor from an en eastward of her thing steam barges wil the red ensign flying lay at anchor. THE only sailing vessel is perti was the British Co, of New York, and she, as soon as the black signals were hoisted up on the yard arm of the Tamar lowered all her four mast in anticipation of the typhoon, The smaller coasting steamere made for Hunghom and storm at their mostings. All, however, had Kowloon Bays; others chose to ride the

lengths of cable when the wind begingo blow steam up and not one failed to pay out extra

with the greatest fury so as to reduce strain on the chains. These precautions were render

noun yesterday the Red South Cone and Drum the Director of the Observatory, Shortly after ed possible by the timely warning issued by

were hoisted, indicating a typhoon to the S-E, of the Colony beyond thren hundred miles, the

the policy which guided the Provincial Government was purely patriotic in charac ter, symbolised in the motto of "Chits for the Chinese. It may, therefore, be asum-

FULL DETAILS OF "BLACK MONDAY.” ed that Taotai Wen has been large ly. influenced by the views of the ex-Viceroy

Following a deluge which prevailed prac- typhoon board in the blackness of night, when whom he loyally supported, but even al- tically without cessation for a period extend- it is impossible to do aught but wait for the though that may be the case it is imposing over ten days, Hongkong was visited worst, is horrible. The frenzied wind had sible for the Thotai to forget or un last night by a typhoon whose terrific vio. twined and twisted the electric cables so that derestimate the advantages which lie lence vividly recalled the disastrous and these under a pill of thick valver, and derived from his residence in Hongkong, appalling upheaval of nature in September shroud over the harbour. All this time there the lightning had passed away leaving a and the expansive ideas gained through the 19:6. On this occasion, happily, there was was not a drop of rain.to drown the tumult of medium of Queen's College, where he

none of those harrowing scones which were the aerial forces and the reverberating crashes pursued his studies and where he afterwards witnessed two years ago when this mosquito of falling masonry and timber. It was no: was engaged as a teacher. That education fect of Hongkong was doumed to destruc-paul three hours after the beginning of thepletely. His cries were heard by his fellow-ship Jutsopole, consigned to the Standard 0:1 and intimate association with the British tion from the moment the gale arose, and storm that the rain began to compete with the have stood him in good stead since he be the loss of life is but trifling in comparison wind for the mastery and with the rain came came an official under the Imperial Govers with the only parallel which is possible install and then a sudden and complete ment and, combined with his native talent referring to wind-storms which have passed and capacity, have long since marked him over this Colony. Nevertheless, although the out for preferment. It was remarked at the time when Viceroy Shum threw up the Prios $1.20 per dozen.

reins of office in Canion that it was curious The should have left behind him one so Credit given of de cents per dozen in deeply versed in his aims as his confidential bottles returned in gued condition.

secretary, particularly as he practically cleared the two Provinces of all those were his supporters. There was no suggestion that Total Wen had been abandoned by his pation, for what ever may be the characteristics of His from the shock of the hurricane, and when whole world was enveloped in an ocean pressive. The residents are becoming so Excellency Shum ingratitude is certainly day dawned this morning there was not a of lot, and many people munt not one of them. The probability is that in thoroughfare which was not blocked will wondering to-day bow they managed to pass the then condition of affairs, when the ex- uprooted trees and the debris of dismantled few who had a wink of sleep and fewer stilt the night. Certainly there, could have been Viceroy's star was onder an eclipac, he con-buildings. That the loss of life is as small who were free from anxiety regarding the out- sidered it desirable that he should have at least one of his attachés at the seat of his former Government. His Excellency is still under a cloud, but that his power is altogether gone cannot be believed for a moment, It was only yesterday, indeed, that our Canton correspondent announced that the suggestion

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AT ITS HEIGHT. vast majority of the floating population manat 145 am. It beat and battered against the The typhoon was at th's apex of its ferocity aged to gain shelter before the typhoon burst, walls, dragging huge ireas from their robis and there were several casualties among the larger finging them at random into the stree's. The craft, which entered the harbour after the clatter of tiles hud, slater azd broken glass warning had been hoisted, and nearly a dozen resembled the poise of hot hail falling ou vessels of large tonnage stranded on the sounding board. The was nlive with all rocks at each of the entrances to the harbour, the waves could be heard dashing high agaian manner of weird'sounds, Towards the prays, In the city itself it is extremely improbable the gracile defences. Now and, then a that there isa single house or building which long draw out and melancholy wail came does not show evidenc tapo having suffered from some steamer which was invisible. The

..

come of the storm.

the typhoon was over, only a few wayward When the río came at 2.30 in the "morning, gusts at long intervals reminding watchers of the violence of the gale, Daylight was long delayed, but when it arrived some idea of the damige done during the night, was gained.

AT WANCHAL

and, indeed, Wanchai seems anxious to win the houses that either callipsed wholly or in part, Wanchai simply seems with instances of

prize for the most unstable district in Hong. "kon. Verandahs and oofs flew up or few dawn with a unanimity that was almost in-

they took last night's experience as a matter of be accustomed to the vägarier of their homes that

prisman and nightshirts when a wall toppled course. There was no running about le over or a balcony disappeared. Everybody was dressed for a walking tour if necessary, and happed the good citizens. of Wanchal held a while other people sat in terror of what might series of symposia and thereby passed a plea- sant night heedless of occasional crashes, or the mossing of the wind. It is not necessary then, to enter into any account here of the numberless incidents which occurred at Wan- chai; the details are given in the report which roof of Blackbend's hulk is nu est, and that racecourse. Even the substantially built Golf there is not a Club mashed standing on the Club has suffered very considerably.

ASHORE AT STONECUTICAS, Away in the direction of Stoneculler, faland

A CURIOUS FREAK.

A curious phenomenon was to be seen on

Manila report announcing a typhoon or cyclone,

substituted for the red the typhoon was within La-er the afternoon the black signals were west of. Falingtang Channel, moving West,

302 miles of the island,

During the early part of the night the wind bogen to freshen. One steamer,- lying of and a few brais alongside worklog cargo Pottinger Pier, had a couple of lightar

to be abandoned 3000 after, as unmistakable up to about ten o'clock. The work had indications of the approach of the storm wÖRN" apparent. The wind glow in, force_rapidly, At 11.15 pm, thres rockels' were fired at tony Station. That was the signal to indicate that minute Intervali the Taim ahatani: Police

fall typhoon force at any moment. This argent the rockets in quick succession being fired from signal was repeated on this side of the harbour,

the Harbour Office. From this time onward the wind began to blow with great fury and the sea was lashed to Buga waves. Reasing the

imminent danger in which, a couple of two of the cargo jonks which had stood by the upload.

The hasbour ing steamers stood, H.M.S. Astras played

several of the large steamers in pick

The kindly vayasıinted

as it is-although it is only small by comparison is due to the timely notice given by Mr. F. G. Figg, the Director of the Observatory, that a typhoon was fast ap proaching from the East...

Shortly after noon yesterday the red signals were hoisted on Signal Hill and H. M. S. A. S. WATSON & CO., si should be transferred to, Nanning was in over 300 miles from the Colony. Prior to of the ex-Viceroy that the capital of Kwang.Tamar, indicating that a typhoon was raging

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course of being adopted. The only ques. that warning, a message had been received jaglf a dozen steamers and the mists of a sail. follows. It may be stated, "however, that the the wind might be expected to increase to HONGKONG, CHINA & MANILA,

tion now is-granting that the report

from the United States Consul-General stating vessel could be seen, and from their posi. Tantai Wen's promotion to the office of ing that the Manila ucteorologists had loca driven ashore during the early hours of the tion it was clear that they had been Resident Minister in Thibet is corrected a typhoon travelling westwards. The morning. The steamships Pachetan, Schuly. whether the Tuotai will be content to was little else. to suggest that a furious whirl kell, and Laiwan; were bunched together as [33 accept such a position: which to one of his wind was crossing the Balintang Channel on if they had gone ashore at the same time.

ambition must savour of exile and banish the direct route to Hongkong. The after. The sailing ship Jutropolis had two of the Easiero side of the Hindu Temple in Mor ment. His Excellency Shum refused on

noon was dull and cool, the sky giving pro her masts carried off; the others had been ison Hill Gap. By a strange freak the wind any pretext to proceed to Yunnan because inise of rain which began to fall the day the Laisang was towed off undam-clean-cut channel in its wake, It seemed forber-searchlight-now hers, now theza,: across- he had an eye to Peking. If Yunnan could daylight faded, but, still there was none of aged, and a successful attempt was made--all the world as if a giant reaper bad cut a nar.

stepped when the gale commenced. During had swept through a dense thicket leaving be considered the Ultima Thule of viceregal that breath of expectancy, which usually to re-float the Sĉknlykill. The Pacific mail tow path for his own convenience, ignoring -Hongkong,-FURSDAY, JULY-28, 1909,

authority what can he said of Thibet, which heralds the coming-of-a-storm-in the Orient steamboat /ersia was ashore la Kowloon the other trees. It was a blazed trail carried to from the Chinese point of view is over the Meanwhile the red signals had been ex Day and the Charles Hardew of the Messa excess and is likely to remain a witness to the TAOTAL WEN TSUNG PAU. ***

edge of the world? That Taotai Wen would changed for the ominous black cone and geriei Cantecaise line, was high and dry onwhimsicality of the gale for some time to come. keep himself in the forefront of Imperial at drum, and the smaller vessels were scurrying Kowloon. Point near the residence of the Dock "If the information conveyed by the tention, even if relegated to the wilds of under all sail for Causeway Bay, while many Colmonger. Twa launches blonging to the With regard to the waterfront there is not a Taolai Wen Trung Yao, the Director of the we should hardly think such a post as that in clusters to the refuge. Foreign Bureau at Canton, has been ap-mentioned would satisfy hit natural desire "pointed to an important and responsible for recognition Whatever view he himself position in Thibet. The precise status of may take of the honour conferred on him; it the post to which he has been promoted is is evident that he is now on the main road difficult to determine, but it would seem to to the highest offices in the gift of the Throne. be in the nature of Resident-Minister in the vassal ziate over which the Dalai Lama is regarded as chief ruler. In any event an evidence of the appreciation in wh Thotai Wen is held by the Imperial Gove. ment that an appointment of this character should have been conferred on paratively young man, whose principal achievements have been gained, as confidential adviser

ALONG THE PRAYA.

Chinese, vernacular Press is well founded Thibet, there is not, the slightest doubt of the more.anweidy craft were being towed Back Company bid sunk off the No. 3 dock, single wharf from Murray Rierto the last fetly hour of stress promptly volunteered to man

A com

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE English mail of the 27. June was deli-

ared in London on the 37th lost,

1

It

is satisfactory to record that not a single life warning was sounded. The wind had been swept ashore at Lycemun, and a lug was sent "It was not until. 11.15 p.m. that the final leathed later on that H.M.S. hiring had been was lost spite of all these casualties. It was

gradually rising in strength aloce g o'clock, to her assistance, to her case, alir, the crew when a heavy shower drove most pedes was safe, which is a matter of gratification to trians off the streets. Bright flashes of light-fall. ning, which was so continuous for a time

ing away.

!

BULL DOG COURAGE.

there

a

special: commendation to the Admiraliy at home. None of the crew of the Airca's culter was Igst. It is curious to relate that this is the second becasion this samo cruiser has rendered invaluable assistance in the

burping of the Canton siver steamer Hrnkow in October, 1906,

ing their way across the harbour for a safe shelter. No sooner was a junk, in a perilous situation descried by those on board the Asfræs than & gallant crew of the handy. men who bad stood the Colony in mety an at West Point that has not suffered more of cutter which was at pace launched from the top of the new vendor's hut which stood in the Company's what is a mass of ruins perched on cruiser Battling with the mountainous as the less damage. The roofing over the Star Ferry

passageway, Blake Pier, as usual, has been

caller pulled hard for Blake Pier near where divested of its ornamental covering of matting ger the British sailors rescued six mem

the juck was in distress. At considerable

For very nearly the Biticth time-but then itbers of the crew, of the foundering josk and would have to be a remarkably poor imita-happi'y succeeded in placing them ashore, that the harbour was illuminated and every results of the typhoon, we must male meation Pier of its vestat array. The P, and 0.1inding, grief by being violently dashed against the Before giving a brief synopsis of the chief tion of a typhoon that would not strip Blakefore, however, the cuffer herself came to boat could be plainly discerned, spread of the gallantry and bulldog courage of the stage is intact but bears the signs of bad stone prapa wall and became reduced to splin der. Within ten minutes after the bomb peets the British Jack Tar to show the spirit of wharf has been blown away bodily, and over the sky, but there was nothin

men of II.M.S. Astraca. Every Britisher ex-usige; and, so on to the and he Taipingers The wreckage could be seen along had announced the presence of the typhoon, heroism and, indeed, it is taken so much as a

Blake Pier to-day, This rescue work was FIVE seamen have been injured on board the or cyclone, as it was alternatively termed by mater of course that what would mean undying over any of the piers. The chief officer of the

iz ROL A Blogle, matsbed roof gallant humanitarian act which deserves U.S.S. Kerage by an escape of steam. the Jesuit observers in Manila, the wind was fame for a civilian simply regarded as part of flare, Mr. F. Wills, was standing along with SINGAPORE has removed her quarantine re, whistling slirilly tirough the deserted streets, the sailer's day's work. The strong was pie. some friends at Kennedy Town wharf waiting behind the scenex, strictions for smalipoy against Hongkong. and all moveable objects were jangling and pared for the blow" when it came and bad to be taken if to his -hip when he was caught When His Excellency Tsen Chun Hsuan, MEN-TE.WAR belonging to both the Govere storm was but in its infancy, coming in whirl-, ander, Captain Ryan, suspecting that the ground, izfuring his back an t'hend Colony. The first was on the occasion of the

clashing in a deafening chorue. As yet, the erything snug for the night. The crim by a sudden gust of wind and dashed to the services of bis men might be requisitioned

" THE STATUES, PEARL It might have been thought that the statue teers for the cutter One can guess what the of the Duke of Comeaught which stands in the For two hours and over the wind blew with? When midnight rang out, the streets were resppose was like. Twelve men were selected. still ablaze. with the electric lights, while and at that psychological moment a junk with bay bien blown off the pedestal, but it stands height between 1.30 and 2 o'clock this morning. most exposed position in Hongkong would unabsting force. The storm was at its nature's current played over the sky Aff six-some say a dozen of a crew on bond thers severely watching he havoc wrought by The lowest barometer reading recorded way the steamships had a full head of steam was seen to be in difficulties. In a boiling, the gain. the 'atues of the King and Prace 2887, about half-past one this mordlag. After of small tonuige had withdrawn from parts of a machine. By some manner of imagine. ready against emergencies.

"tempestuous sax the cutler was lowered and of Wales also escaped injury, although how that t steadied, but rose again as rapidly. With The vessels the crew took their places like the component they braved the tempest it is difficult to the heavy down pour of rain about 2.30 am, their wharf anchorages and repaired to means, mainly by sheer doggedness and stern

the violence of the wind subsided, and it the shelter of Stonecutters Island, which perseverance the draes men brought their

PACIFIC MAIL'S OFFICE. :

became apparent that the worst, of the storm in the past has proved a shelter in similar cockleshell alongside the jank and Jack the was that at the office of the Pacific Mall,

One of the worst of the collapses reported | had passed. times of stress. The gale was driving with Handyman had the Chinese on board in two Steamship Company. The roof fell in and sufficient to indict serious damage to shipping Those two hours of incessant blowing ware rapidly gathering force from the Northeast on if it liked. The dented's boat was in ground floor carrying everything it met with in when the estimate of material loss comes to ba shakes. The junk was allowed to run to perdi. dropped right through the building, to the which, however, escaped comparatively easy and cach blast was more prolonged and

some plight, but by dint of hard pulling and its train, As for treas that have fallen and computed. Leaving for the moment, the con violent than its predecessor. Long before the acme of fine judgment Douglas Fier was landmarks that are gone are they not related sideration of the smaller craft, the casualties this time, timid citizens had done their reiched and the shipwrecked crew and their in the detailed account which follows? utmost to secure their doors and windows rascuers were landed. The boat was practi.

among which are noted in a later section against the clamouring gale, but there must cally smashed to smithereens.

this report, several of the larger valsela da, have been few houses in which faulty bolts

perienced a vary anxious time, on rehabilitating Whampoa as the port Macao Steamboat. Company will recommend

The Directors of the Hongkong, Canton and had not to be strengthened by means or In attempting to give a general view of the of South China and actually issued pro- at the meeting to be held on the 11th proxime impromptu contrivances. As the typhoon was and damage caused by the typhoon the of the tragedy which is the most serious report could be discerned by meant When morning dawned the clamations announcing that it was proposed the payment of a dividend of $1.25 per share, swelled to lie height, the shuttered windows were wrecked all over the hubour and yet typhoon are as yet of the most scrappy and ralo. The most conspicuous sicamer to

main difficulty is to know where to glo, Juske ed as having occurred as the resuls of ibe glasses through the to, construct a railway which would connect $10,000 be written off the book value of wore torn apart and the howling of the gate bera was hardly a life lost One Jank Iles off fragmentary character, but it is belli yad that attention with the terminus of, the Hankow line at steamers, $3,60) be written off wharves and was accompanied by the crashing of insumer Observation Place water logged the Chinese out of some 300 passe Canton, With that object

object an ex-Minister properties, St2,500 beiracuferred 10 Depra-able jalousies and window frames which were were rescued froth her when she was in a slok, saved, There is of the Interior in the person of His Excel. ciation and Insurance Fund, $10,000 be trans hurled into the streets.

ing cozditloo ferred to Special Repairs Fund, leaving a

more familiarly, known as Shum, was acting meat and the rebat factidas in Headuras have ing gusts and soutches and as rapidly dy during the thick if the storm, called for valus. As the Viceroy of the two Kwang Provinces, fired on the American flag. his right hand man was Taotai Wen, without whom nothing was done. It seemed indeed ARRANGEMENTS have bien coscluded for the as if the Total were more of a blood re-transportation of reliefs and simo-expired men lation of the spirited and energetic Viceroy of the German gurrisses in North Ching, A than a subordinate official, and it is safe to instead of viâ Suez as heretofore.

South Manchuria Railway and Siberia say that there were few questions of a domestic or international character which THE Chinese Government's voluminous coun- were not submitted to the keen analysis and ter-statement in regard to the Chientas dispute conlderation of the astute Foreign Secretary, has been received at Tokio. The Japanes In those days matters vitally, affecting the Government has protested against the Chinese Interests of Hongkong were being pushed embargo upon cereals in Chiantao and the forward by the Viceroy and the suggestion

neighbourhood, that on several occasions the Chauvinistic tendencies of Shum were kept in restraint by the more deliberate Wen, who seldom made the mistake of taking a leap' in the dark was probably not" beside the mark. The Viceroy had set, his heart

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WRECKED JUNKS.

ngibar, junk i

LOES OF THE "YING KING,” Almos Almost at ee last moment word has reached Hongkong of the wreck of the well-known' and' popular river steamer Ving Avg. Panicular

foul of the Kwho was ine

only 33 have been soo of Captain

sein ashore