THE TYPHOON.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
PIIKSS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Brisbane, Oet. 11, Details of the Hang Koug typhoon, September 18ib, state it was the most appalling and destructive over experienced in tho colony. It is estimated fully 50,' per centum of the Chinese orafe employed in the harbor were lost. Offioial records state that twelve hundred and six fishing boats and other local JflfAuuFW cSr Nine steamers and sailing ships sbdk. uortyeight others were driven ashore, inoluding the steamer Prinz Waldamar, and the French torpedo boat Fronde. Three officers and two men of the latter were drowned, besides Bishop Hoare, Captain Patriok, engineer Wallace, of the steamer Albatross ; Captain Mead, engineer Morgan, of the steamer Kwong. I chow; Captain Maxfield and engineer Williamson, of the steamer Hong Kong. Nino other Europeans were drowned, Kowloon was harder hit than any other part of the colony. Tho wharves completely disappeared, tho eea walls were broken down, the railway bods of massive coooreto orumplod up, and junks and sampans tossed high on the quays. A big Bhip dragged her moorings and was driven on tho walls, and othors suddenly sank, Tho peninsula for miles was enveloped with desolation.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1903, 12 October 1906, Page 2
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195THE TYPHOON. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1903, 12 October 1906, Page 2
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