Terrtfle Hurrlocane at Savage bland.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 27, 20 April 1889, Page 2

Terrtfle Hurrlocane at Savage bland.

By news to band lata Uat night vis ' learn that on Monday tat ten of last > month two days after the storm in our I own harbor the fitroeet sad most dis* I astrkws hurrieane which has been I kgjrwn fw thrift* quarter of a century

tike WtauW M|MMt of th. ««« » changed and the dwZ* £f «• apparent, mil* Allele the Church whieh * WTO*' «»• 'eraudah of „ , principal Iwelhng there. The seriousjMlgi U done to the Chu, H si*flepseh hare been swept out „f exMtffee, and to the native houses, „< these no less than 700 are in ruin. The damage will seriously affect th.. natives for a couple of years at least as besides having over 2000 cououuut trees uprooted, some thousands of nut* aro lost from tress still standing. ..\t Uhumotu the damage was less alth,/ the sea ran higher. The principal residence is tnat of Mr. Head, the Deputy Corotnisioner for Niue win, with his wife and one daughter whs absent in Auckland. The daughter left in charge had taken such ipreiau. tions that there was nb visible to either house or oktre. To givo »u ;j,„. «* .k.t o k.....:«0., d ■„„.,..„;., ,1

parts I hove only to state that ta verv heavy mahogany log was moved mi-. of its place, on the (op of a cliff by tl„, force of the snn. Captain Boss, ~: the schooner Olive, and myself ufterwards measured the height «f this block approximately end found it was 120 tent from the ordinary sea-lev. i The highest point in the island is only aliout 200, feet so that np additional 8(1 feft would haue drowned sonio sOoi> ' people". The old natives do not remember anything, worse. News jusx received from the same I island states that wreckage fi„ m ! some vessel has been strewn along tho east cost. The full account is al- ! together mysterious but there is n<> I doubt that not a single soul survived. 1 It appears that towards the end of December a ship passed along tiewest coast dismasted and on the night ! of December -28 th these remaius- can I ashore. There was no trace whatever of the vessel's name nor anything tu i guide one to identify her except the I word " CBiua" printed, on - a life-buoy ! with the ordinary stencils used for j packing-cases. The Rev. Mr. Law«. J of the London Mission Society has had j every search made for further par- ! ticulars without success. A 'detail-■! report wbii-h Mr. has written 011' j can be seen hy any firms interested i ' shipping, on b jard tlte schooner Olivu ; in the harlior. •