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SHANGHAI SWEPT BY A TYPHOON.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1915.

Nantao appears to have escaped DAIRY FARM NEWS.

the full violence of the storm, and large numbers of small craft found safety and shelter behind the

THE BIGGEST STORM FOR NEARLY FORTY YEARS. screen of junks. Judging from

EXTENSIVE Damage to SHIPPING.

Business Held up Ashore.

the wreckage Hosting on the river and washed against the foreshore, however, it is extremely probable that the destruction of innumer- jable" sampari must have been

accompanied by loss of life.

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The western district suffered CORNED BEEF, The following account of the lies between the stranded steamer severely. The scene at daylight was an extraodinary one. Bubbl- typhoon which awept Shanghai and the garden bundan ing Well Road was strewn with on July 29 is taken from the N.C. lighters, and launches being fallen trees, the roofs of many mixed up in great confusion. Daily News

hocess were partially or clm- One of the most severe storms/The three launches wrecked herenletely torn away, and gardene

were the Minnie and the For, experienced for many strack Shanghai between 11 and belonging to the Old Dock Com were flooded. Yates Roid, Wei- haiwei Road, Carter Road,

yeare

After a sultry evening, a along breeze began to develop, and about 11 o'clock was blowing at

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PRESSED BEEF, DRIPPING,

COOKED HAM,

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PORK PIES, &C., &C..

12 o'clock on Tuesday night. Fany and Mears. Jardine, Mathe Avenue Rad, Rue Jeffre and CORNED TONGUES,

A steel lighter Jay bottom up- adjacent roads were affected' is The wirelees wards at the corger of the Sootheme way, chow Creek and the Public Gar-telegraphy pole off Weihaiwei a great rate. There was a power- fal tide sweeping op the Huang.den, and another one sank at the Road collapsed at about 5 a.m., po, and the few people on The entrance to the Old Duck. The lifting its concrete foundation and Band and in the rublic Gardens big U.S. army collier broke from cutting clean through a strong witnessed a great commotion ber moorings at 'colung and fonce. Mohawk Road was cover among the small craft hurrying drifted down the river, eventually ed with wreckage from the front

in for shelter.

Rain began to fall in torrent, and the gale continued furious- ly throughout the night.

going ashore at Yangtzepoo,

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Wreckage on the Foreshore.

ages and roofs of Chinese houses. All matsheds were demolished or badly damaged, while eua screens in the majority of cases, were carried away bodily.

WHICH CANNOT BE EXCELLED FOR QUALITY.

It will be some time before the

Curious Case of Thought- Transference.

"The Band stand at Hongkow AN EXAMINATION STORY. Recreation ground was blown down and part of the dressing rooms demolished. A large num- The wreckage of innumerable

ber of trees were destroyed. No reporte as to injury or lose of life From midnight onwards there small craft lay along the foreshore.

The northern and eastern dia- were received at North Szechnen was a plamour of falling tiles, of The Foam, the headquarters boat parts of roofs and shop fronts of the Shanghai Yaott Club, suf-ricts also suffered severely. Road station.

Traffic along Broadway was The Public Garden. · being wrenched away, treaking fered heavy damage, and several

A Wayfarer writes in the glass, and the rear of the wind, smaller yachts, together with positively dangerous in the early which blow with great violence. launches and lighters, were plong-morning and forenoon, and people Public Garden resumes anything Nation. The few people abroad, np till 1ing about dangerously and in a coming to town kept to the more like its ordinary appearance: As

sheltered Seward Road. Numbers many of the uprooted trees as what I suppose can be oslled "Here is a curious instance of a.m, ran considerable risk of being damaged condition near the Jetty, of boats which put "in at the possible will be replanted, but in thought-transference, in this case strack by pieces of debris which and rear bere the lawn was strewn harves for shelter were smashed order to raise them much of the quickly began to cover the roads with bales of cargo in many places to pieces, most of the alleyways foliage will have to be cut away to a son to that of his father.

a transference of the thought of Some interesting details of the foreshore, smashed and battered were blooked with the debris of reduce the weight. A consider course of the typhoon are given craft awayad with the tide, and masheds and chimneys and fallen atle amount of repair work will in the China Coast meteorological by noon most of the wrecks were trees. Walls and chimneys were have to be done to bunding and Administration found himself report, which states that the first reduced to matchwood, cargo of blown down, the district between) rails, and the lawn round the awaking from a dream and ask- #quall occurred at 8.40 p.m., and all descriptions was floatingabout. Muirhead Road and Chaufoong band stand will praotically have ing himself the question, " What | a heavy squall came on at 11.20, and though some fow bales were Road suffering severely in this to be relaid. Most of the damage

dre the disadvantages of At midnight the barometer was got sebore by Chinese, the task respect, and Kangping Road was bore, and on The Band foreshore,

A Coalition Government?" falling fast, reaching its lowest of salvage was difficult and could inpresable ring to the oumber appears to have occurred between His mind then turned on his son, point at 8.30 a m. yesterday. The not be attempted on any extensive of treas lying across the roadway, 6.30 and 7.30 on Wednesday who was being examined for s

and the food. Broadway was morning, and long before this school scholarship. wind was the greatest recorded acale.

A large number of huge loge of ander water for a considerable time the Chinese beat people, re- sinos 1879, Rain and tide werë

timber, which were for some time not so heavy sa in 1905."--

The Meteorological Report.

Along the whole length of the

"A member of the present

distance and tramway traffic was alizing what was about to happen,"What a likely question for The typhoon came from theja menace to the few small craft held up, several electric standarde rushed up the Soachaw Creek for him to be asked!' was his next Pacific, and passed between the plying on the river wero secured having collapsed. In Chaufoong shelter, thero being a great thought, so next day he wrote him Loochoos and the Meccosima so the foreshore in the Garden, Road the front part of a house was struggle for places.

Experiences of the "Klangteed." summary of the argument, only group, proceeding thence straight but numbers were affet on the blown ir,

At the corner of Thorns and The eff of of the typhoon at

to receive an answer thanking Boross the Eastern Sea and, it is river all day and were always a conjectured, striking somewhere turce of considerable danger. Fearon Road an electric light pole Woosung may be gathered from him for the letter, and regretting near Ningpo. The report added Another danger was that of was blown down, the wires falling the following account of the ex- that it bad not been sent earlier, for the question had keen asked that the wind would probably derelict jaoks, of which there on the telephone wires. A Chin-periences of the C.M.S. Kisngteen, in an examinatica paper set for

ose who was caught in the wires which escaped destruction only the preceding morning. was killed instantaneously.

by olever maneuvring on the In Cunningham Road a wall part of Captain Glen and the

"It is a carious point that the fell on a ricaba coolie who received good work of the crew. The some bad cuts and braises; the Kiangteen left Shanghai on Tues-intellectual interest in this care

day afternoon at 515 oa her was common to father and sun.' occupant of the ricshe escaped.

In North Szechuan Road tram-asual journey t Ningpo, and had Pall Mall Gazette." way and telephone wires were on board 500 passengera and a blown down.

quantity of cargo.

veer south or southweat, or might were many.

In the Public Gardens, even go due west, and in that

The damage done in the Pablic cass the typhoon would probably increase in velocity in the Yellow Gardene was quite remarkable, Bea, or expend itself in Korea, Scores of trees were torn up and It is very probable that Shang-carried away for some yards, tung, Cheloo, and Weihaiwei will many of them with the seats with which they had been enciroled feel the storm very severely.

still attached, and the entrance to The gale was act unexpected, the Gardens from the bridge was Sicawei Observatory having re-choked up with several large corded the progress of the storm trees. The tremendous force of for two or three days. At the wind may be judged from the p.m. on Tuesday it was reported fact that yards of concrete were to be crossing the Bashes Chintorn up with the trees.

Early Warnings.

would then be about 1,100 miles

Terrific Force of the Wind.

Destruction of Well Known

Yachts.

(From The N.-C. Daily News

of July 30).

appearance of the lawns

The typhoon was signalled off

the Meccosima group, direction north-west, and the barometer

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was then at 20.65.. Outside anobora and obains having now S any weather yesterday en- Woosung there was a fresh gone, it seemed possible to save abled residents to get a more

easterly wind with a moderate the vessel only be running her complete idea of the havoc sea running, and the Kiangteen ashore. Captain Glen looked out nel and moving northwest, and People who were early abroad, wrought by the typhoon, and to went on as far as the Tangaha for a favourable position, and from Shanghai. The probabilities on foot, in ricahan o motor cars, wingse salvage operations on the lighthouse, forty-five miles from when the ship had safely pissed ware that the typhicon would had extreme difficulty in making foreshore. There were thous Woosung, at the mouth of the the stones which are marked on strike the coast somewhere about their way and there were several ands of Chinese aleng The Band Yangtze, As the wind was in the chart as being off Hellespont, Foodbow and would break up on accidents. At one time, orossing during the day, and the usually cressing and the tarometer slight he headed her directly for the

tring 自纽 touching land there, During the the Garden Bridge was

ly falling. Captain Glen decided beach. Fortunately she took the night, however, the wind hung extremely difficult undertaking, entirely had disappeared, there be not to proceed farther on bis shore in a very favourable posit- log progreta only being ing instead great patches of well- journey. He put back, and at 8.30 ion, atern to the wind and bow ominously in the northeast, ga- thering in force, and by 4 a.m. possible, and that by means trampled mud. At midnight on m. anchored in the channel be right on to the shore, about 1,000

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the shore.. Quarantine buoys, this being wind was at its greatest force at bridge rail. Several people were towed away from the Garden fore-ween the Blockhouse and the sarde on the shoal off the line of 7.30 a.m. It was then blowing blown clean across the roadway, shore, and from daylight onwards considered to be a safe anchorage

About 2 s.m. on Wednesday. As the tide was rising, an endea from east-northeast, with tremen- and it was reported that two the Chinese were busy gathering dons squalls from the east, but Chinese had been carried over up the fragments of smashed the wind increased in force, with our was made about 9.8.m. to sampane and lighters, and of the barometer rapidly falling, and put the vessel further up the during the morning it veered to into the creek.

Another apot where the terrific cargo strewn up and down the there was beavy rain. An hour bank-paddles had been kept wist-southeast and southeast, this being an indicat on that the force of the wind was fully felt foreshore.

later the weather set in squally, going all this time to prevent It appears that about a dozen with the wind east, and at 4 30 mud filling round the vessel typhoon was passing to the was at the corner of The Bund southward of Shanghai. It is and N. nking Rond. A pony car-yachts were wrecked, many of there were violent squalle accom with a view to landing the believed that the typhoon struck riage and many ricehas were over-them being knocked into splic-panied by torrenti.1 rain, A. & passengers if necessary. Tue tide the const to the north of turned. With practically all the tere, and the loss suffered by memo'clock it was only possible to see continued to rise, and towards 11 Ningro, atout seventy miles heavy traffic of the day at a stand-b re of the Yacht Club must be 2 ships' lengths ahead through the clock the ship gradually edged PRICE PER CASE. 1 DOZ. QUARTS, DUTY PAID $80,00. from Shanghai. The 'o'm be still, The Bund had a deserted and very considerable. All that could gan to subside at Shanghai in the belated appearance during the be seen of the Coquette was a life spume and rain, and at this time nearer the bank, and by noon her the equalis were ex remely heavy. bow was only about twenty yards early afternoon and soon after morning, and business bounasb. The Cyde, Glory Ill and All hands were called to their away from the shore. A change three o'clock a few tags went out generally had an enforced holiday. Foam were lying bigh and dry stations and lifebelte were served in the wind from east to s uth- "on the river to help distressed It was for the reason that the broken up beyond repair, and out to the passengers. At 6.30 south-east took the bows of the atreats were so curiously empty there were others partially sub the squalls were of hurricane force ship off land, and she was then craft to places of more gurity,

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that she would not stoer prc-· tr. Tang Hong, stranded near black swallow-tail coat

districts give details of a num The only course open now was perly and that nothing could be the Public Gardens. She was sendals.

ber of accidents, fatal and other to head the vessel up for Block seen a quarter of a mile undergoing repaire and lay at the French Bund and Nantaó.

A considerable amount of dam-wise, chiefly due to the collapse house Island and get her under way. To make things wore baoy opposite the "Old" Dock;| breaking her moorings at about ge, but nothing of a very serious of walls and the fall of electric the lee of the island. Upon re janks were passing at a terrific 7.30a.m., at which time apparent nature, was done on the French wires. A coolie was electrocuted aching the shoal water, the ship speed, entirely out of hand, and ly the storm reached its greatest

Telephone poles and by a falling wire while cleaning sheered off to southward and many of them went down quite face. She drifted up-stream, tramway standarda were brought up an alleyway off Ningro Road, made for Hellespont on the close to the Kiangtsen. Fran- and fortunately swang pars down and trees aprosted, and A child was killed by a falling Petungshore. The paddles ately the squalls abated coin der PRICE PER CASE. 1 DOZ. QUARTS. DUTY PAID $40.06. the entrance to the Booshow although the Chinese houses at wall in Loues. The front of were kept going at fall ably, and Captain Glen was able Creek. Had abe not done this, a the southern end were protected house in Shanee Road collapsed speed in the hope that to manoeuvre his ship until such collision with the Garden Bridge by the high godowns immediately and a boy just passing at the time the ship would come up into the time as the ebb tide suited his would have been inevitable, with in fr mtof them, many had portions was killed. Other deaths from wind, but she did not does, lying making for Shanghai, which was striona resulin. As it war, she of their frontage violently removed, similar causes were reported from broadside to the wind and head-reached about 8 o'clock, with no was thrown on the foreshore, in some of the debris falling across Shanse Road, Fokien Hoad, Tae-ing south-south-east. Very soon further damage to the ship than hat pamage just mining a Japan- the tramway wires and anapping too Road, North Shanse Road, land on the Pootung side, of Hel- the loss of her cables and anchors.

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