3,000 LIVES LOST in a TYPHOON.
Advices received at Plymouth on December 9th give some particulars of a destructive typhoon which visited Haiphong and Tallee on October Bth, causing great destruction and loss of life. The wind blew with tremendous violence, and the heavy sea flooded the whole of the surrounding country. In Tallee there were six: feet of water in the houses, three and four miles distant from the sea shore. The current was so strong that it swept away the entire town, the number of persons drowned being estimated at over 3000. The paddy-fields throughout the district have been completely ruined, and a large number of the boats which convey the rice from the interior of the country to Haiphong have been sunk.
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Patea Mail, 22 February 1882, Page 3
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