TERRIFIC TYPHDON.
HUNDRED 3 OF LIVE 3 LOST. GREAT DESTRUCTION OF SHIPPING. VESSELS SUDDENLY PILED IN STREETS. PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Rooeived 11 32 p m., Sept. 19. Hong Kong, Sept. 19. Upwards of one hundred were drowned in a two hours’ terrific typhoon at Hong Kong. The damage is estimated at several million dollars. Eight steamers were stranded and eovoral foundered. There wore numoroua collisions. The American vessol Hitoheaok was oast high and dry on the Kowloon sea wall.
By means of a tug constantly towiDg the liner Empress of Japan was saved. The sloop Phceuix and the French destroyer Franoisque were wrecked, Received 11.85 p.m., Sept. 19. Several gunboats were damaged. The Frenoh destroyer Froude collided with another vessel, twenty perishing. There was no warning of the ooming storm.
Liners, junks, sampans, and ferry boats were suddenly piled In the streets. The chief fatalities were of natives, hundreds in their boats sinking in the Canton river.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1865, 20 September 1906, Page 2
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