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September 22, 1906.]
KONGNAM, sunk off Yaumati. River steamer 485 tons, laid up and used as a houseboat by Mr. W. F. Donaldson and family who perished. Wilks & Jack, owners. KWONGCHOW, steel twin screw river steamer on Canton ran. Foundered off Kowloon, Captain Mead, officers and crew drowned. Shui On, owner.
PERSEVERANCE, river steamer on Macao run. foundered near Cheung Chan, Chinese
owners.
San Cheung, river steamer on Canton run, foundered alongside her wharf. Chinese
owners.
FORSOGAN, American steamer 428 tons.
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Foundered alongside Kowloon dooks. In: | chausti & Co., Manila, owners.
ASHORE.
CASTELLANO, small American steamer, ashore
at Samshuipo.
CHANGSHA, near Kowloon docks, British steamer 1,463 tons. Chira Navigation Co., owners. Butterfield & Swire, agents. CHIUKAI-MARU, ashore at Kellet Island.
Japanese owners.
CHUNG KONG, small river steamer, ashore at
Samshui-po. Chinese owners.
EMMA LUYKEN, German steamer, 1,159
tons. Consigned to Chinese. FATSHAN, ashore Hunghom Bay. Steel, twin. screw steamer on Canton run, 1425 tons net Hongkong Canton and Macao Steamboat Co. owners.
FRANCISQUE, French destroyer, 303 tons, totally
wrooked near V.R.C. at Kowloon. FRONDE, French destroyer, 350 tons, ashore
near V.R.C. at Kowloon, HERMANIA, German steamer ashore at Sam-
shuipo.
HRUNGSHAN, ashore at Sau-cban. Steel screw river steamer, 1055 tons. on Macao rus, Hongkong Canton and Macao Steamboat Co.
owners.
JOHANNE, ashore in Kowloon Bay. German
steamer 952 tons. Jebsen and Co. agents. Į KINSHAN, ashore near Castle Peak. Steel screw aiver steamer, 1995 tons. Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co. owners. KONGMOON river steamer, MONTEAGLE, ashore Kowloon. C.P.R. steamer
2440 tons. Since refloated.
PAK HING, ashore at Kowloon. River steamer.
owned by Chinese. PETEARCH, ashore at Kowloon. German
steamer, 1,683 tons. PHENIX, ashore near V.R C., Kowloon Bay.
British sloop, 1,050 tons displacement. ROSARIO (H. 8. DE) old steamer brought from
the Philippines to be broken up. SEXTA, lost one anchor and went ashore at Hunghom Point; apparently not much damaged. German steamer, 992 tons net register; built at Lubeck 1906. Siemssen & Co. agents.
SIGNAL, ashore in Hunghom Bay. German
steamer, 900 tons. Jebsen & Co. agents SUN ON, ashore Hunghom Bay. River steamer.
Chinese owners.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
LooNGSANG, Indo-China steamer, 1,092 tous.
Slightly damaged.
MOORREN, British river gunboat. ROBIN, British gunboat.
B. P. HITCHCOCK, American sailing ship, 2,013 tons. Ashore and badly damaged at Kowloon. Arnhold, Karberg & Co, agent, TAK HING, ashore off Samshuipo. River
steamer lately employed on West River. VERONA, ashore at Stonecutters. Refloated yesterday, German steamer, 3036 tons. Carlowitz and Co. agents, WINGCHAI, ashore at Stonecutters, total wreck. Wooden River steamer employed on the Maoso run. Sam Wang Co. owners.
DAMAGED.
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POLYNESIEN, French Mail steamer; was fouled by the Fate han but not seriously damaged.
PRINZ WALDEMAR, German steamer 1,736 tons, Australian liner, went ashore at Yaumati but got off again. One of her propellers was damaged. POONA, P. &. O. steamer, 4,878 tons. Injuries slight, received through other craft bumping against her as she remained secured at the Kowloon Wharf,
Actual
damage not
ions Det
'Mont-
QUINTA, German steamer, 987
register; was badly damaged by the 8.8. "Strathmmore" which drifted on to her. Siemssen & Co. agents. RADNORSHIRE, British steamer, 1,820 tons,
Bows damaged in collision with 8.8. eagle" Shewan, Tomes & Co. agents. SULLBERG, German steamer 782 tons net register, built at Luebeck 1896; "Petrarch". collided with her; dragged her moorings and damaged some of her bow plates. yet ascertained. Siemsens Co. agents. STRATHMORE, British steamer 2,295 tons, badly damaged in collision with the Quinta" Dodwell & Co. agents. SADO-MARU, N.Y.K. steamer; encountered the typhoon outside the harbour and lost a jolly boat and some of her deck fittings. EHUN LEE, river steamer, badly damaged
by batting against the Praya wall, TAKU, British destroyer. TJILIWONG, China-Java-Japan line steamer, 3,061 tons damaged on portside in collision with the "Deyawongse "and the " Emma Luyken." Besides the above a very large number of harbour launches and a large proportion of the pleasure yachts owned by European residents met with disaster.
COPTIC, O. & O. Mail steamer, 2,744 tons,
collided with s.8. Petrarch. CHIP SHING, Indo-China steamer, 1.199 tons, fouled the "Locug Sang" and Haimun❞ and damaged her port side. CHARLES HARDOUIN, French river steamer, was driven against three steamers in succession and received considerable damage. DEVAWONGSE, German steamer, 1,262 tons; in collision with 8.8. "Tjiliwong." Damage apparently slight. N.D.L. agents. Foorsang, Indo-China steamer, 1,987 tons,
sustained damage to her propeller. I. F. CHAPMAN, American sailing ship, 2,013
tons; lost her royal main-mast. KUTSANG, Indo-China steamer, 3,110 tons; sustained damage to her stern through being fouled by the s.s. Charles Hardouin”.
FOURTH DAY'S REPORTS.
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with coffins, leaving the mortuaries, while on the Praya are, to be seen a few weeping women who point to the sea and utter the most heart-rending sounds.
The feelings of awe occasioned by the terrible disasters of Tuesday still hang over the community and the profound impression then created has to some extent been deepened by the gruesome scenes that are hourly wit nessed along the shore on both sides. Bodies, ghastly by reason of mutilation, are being tuaries, where after being photographed and constantly picked up and carried to the mor
some little interval allowed for friends to claim, they are prepared for interment. The coffining of the corpses is a borrible opera- tion, but the ordeal, trying as it is, is bravely gone through by both police and sanitary officials. Both are working well together. Their duties are not lessened by the coolies refusing to work in the cemeteries and though higher remuneration is offered the men will not undertake the work. The unclaimed bodies of Chinese are not
in separate graves but interred in trenches Besides this there are many private burials and the scenes on the way to the native cemeteries are 8.8 pathetic as they are interesting. Yesterday afternoon the funeral of Captain Maxfield took place, the remains being followed by a number of mourners to the Happy Valley.
put
are over-
THE MISSING FAMILY.
Great regret has been expressed at the untimely deaths which Mr. W. F. Donaldson, bis wife, and two children have met. As is well known, Mr. Donaldson was one of the assistants a very retiring disposition he had a most of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire. Though of interesting, not to say adventurous career, and in the office he was a general favourite. Mrs. Donaldson was also well known as a teacher of dancing.
The total cf lives reported lost and jaoks and cargo boats reported missing continues to increase daily, but officials whelmed with work so that it is not possible 83 yet. Yaumati reports 60 lives lost, Shektonshai 40, and Wan- chai a much greater number.
to obtain information
Some details of the fate of the family have now come to hand. Two of the natives on board
the
women
the Kongnam, who escaped, report that when seas washed away the deck-cabins, Mr. Donaldson snatched up the baby and attempted proceeded many yards another wave carried to rush for a place of shelter but before he had him into the sea. Mrs. Donaldson, with the four year old boy, He was not seen after that. and two Chine se
on board huddled together, but the boat lurched and they it is were all washed into the sea. Sad as it is, interesting to note that when Mrs. Donaldson was faced with danger on the sea not had to go that they should all go together. long ago she expressed the wish that if they Mr. Donaldson's brother from Canton only learned of the fate of the family through the newspapers. The deceased were both natives of the West of Scotland, their parents living in Glasgow.
Even yet it is dificult to give anything like an approximate estimate of the damage done to property. Those competent to judge express the opinion that a million pounds will not cover the loss. Certainly it is enormous and cannot be gauged for some time. Of the smaller craft some 2,000 must have disappeared, and as many of these were cargo bosts and lighters, it will be understood how the shipping has been crippled.
A morbid curiosity attracts many people to the places where the bodies are recovered in greatest numbers, but the horrors of the scene too terrible to d-piot, while the stench is overpowering. Another sadden
ng spectacle is the dust cart, piled
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DXPERIENCES ON THE PEAK TRAMWAY.
1 be Superintendent of the Peak Tramway writes:-
Until the typhoon had been raging for more than an hour I did not realize that such terrible havoc was being wrought by the violence of the wind. At the Peak Station, with the exception of two very strong gusts of wind, there was nothing to alarm me. The trams rau regularly from 7.00 till 10.00 a.m., during part of which time I was doing the usual writing and filling in the daily forms for the head office, to which place I was just preparing to go, when one of the brakesmen informed me in a manner and tone, that left no doubt in me, that there was danger in running the cars any longer. He reported that trees were being uprooted about the hills, and thrown along with small boulders on the track, which necessitated the cars having to be stopped at various places until the obstructions were removed. At other parts the wind to such an extent as to cause the greatest cars were oscillating with the force of the
alarm. At this stage some of the trees being whirled through the air came in contact with the small private telephone wires and broke them. These got foal of the signal wires and forming a circuit began to give false signals. The false signals and the fact that obstructions were on the line were the only evidence that there was danger in runping the cars. The force of the wind on the Peak where I was situated, with the exception of the two said gusts, was not, I can say with certainty, so
great as to cause any uneasiness.
Before eleven o'clock I started on my way down the track accompanied by some of the coolie staff to clear away the obstructions. When I had traversed a third of the distance from the top station I then began to realize the force of the wind. It became necessary, when crossing the bridges that span the chasms and gorges, down which water was rushing in tremendous volume and thundering noise, along the way, to creep along and hold on to the rails. I thought I would have been deserted by my followers, but they stuck bravely by me. At a part of the way, just above
Bowen Road, where a new bridge is being constructed over the line, a landslip had occurred, and covered part of the track. A this directed towards the loose earth, which stream of water was flowing near by. I had
then melted away down the side of the track. By the time I got to the bottom it was half past eleven o'clock. The telephone wires were repaired by noon, when the service was again started, and has continued since without stop- ping during schedule time".
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