A Disastrous Typhoon.
SHOCKING LOSS OF LIFE (Pi:u ritEss Association.) Thursday Island, August 20. The Chmgtu brings .Eastern Tiles to August 7th. By r typhoon at Kmiohhiksy live steamersrand the British ship Marechiil Suet were driven ashore, but there was no loss of life. Reports from Tokio state that in the samo gale nineteen people wc-re killed and fourteen injured Sixteen hundred houses were destroyed and fourteen hundred damaged. Ninety eight vessels of all sizes were wrecked A train t'roni Hiroshima with oti6 passengers, mostly disabled soldiers, was thrown into the sea, eleven were killed and tight seriously hurt. Part of the train disappeared altogether.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 45, 21 August 1895, Page 2
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