The Yang-tse Flood.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7978, 15 November 1905, Page 2

The Yang-tse Flood.

HIVKJI JUSK-S )ux FEE'I. IK'NMtKDS OF LIYKS LOST. There has recently been -an -abnormal rise of tin* Vang-ese River U Hie great height of JoSft (savs t-hi -North China Daily News). This lias "•lit been approached lor the last HC, years. The water rose diirin., the two days J ft. per hour until the clima.\ was reached

All along- the banks of (he river liuth al,ove and lie|.„, v . Chungking,' houses, villages, and townships wi'tv swept away, and the loss „f life and ol property has been immense.

Suchoiilu. Uichou. l-'engtu nnd P-i----isl.a suMered -«,,,,( damage. A( th,, latter place, alone, Ulltl persons were caught by the swift current and wore drowned.

AM -.(j,,!. a ight ,„■ Augusl ID H„. ~|Vl' '' "l'l'osite 'ln Chungking was literally black Willi wreckage floating "!"" ; ll<M,l ' s - window frames. roofs '■l liiniM-s. with the tiles anil all olh- ''' "lMmi-t.-imni.vK still. „| , iU -li,<l to them, vvhofc. straw mul h ;l v ricks, '"'" ; iiml In this wivukagv wi-iv cliiiging .hapless icings of all ages ami of both sexes, shouting out lor ," ' , '" SIX "'' seven kni-ts per t!"'- V" ,'" """'I-*'"- '""iff".! to ,!,, l»--l|. ol ill,- drowning ~ropk.. | )L ._ cans.-, as they themselves said :"\Vh<i »ii(s l;> pay tin-in tush lor their 1n,,,. Wi' At various parts along 11,, hanks in tin- river wn , .-,. , i (m , s .. assiduously pcrformtg ,u ''' '"">■ <>' ivswii-mf llio unf0r1,,,,ate people, l„it notwithstanding (licit '""''•■ large numbers of people "ere clinging to, anil »ere drowned lose who haw -IK.VU to Chungking will nuhvr marvel toliear thai ||,e water covered i|„.- big- U \v »l ih,'Hailanchi bivtgv* ;|'| w „,,,,.,. w .,„ al.su inside Ihe Chungking Trading Company's c, uimd, and tin, '""V »*; »*xl '»r preparing food ~. )u ; ,m,,,v « plows Llu-ic. wvro ashul away. All the houses along Ihe'-banks of Hie ,-iver „,, (. h a) (l | H .| J.anguienhao) side of Ihe river dlsap-jx-aivd in the flood like snow „IT „ ' ■iiHli in llm noonday s un. Tin- stables; belonging 1o ,| lt . , (| . |va| "I Ihe Id-it ish sipiiiilri.il were likewise '■'infr.il. a,ml tin, .'liritjsl, naiyaFigodonu. which was specially em-1.-d in "'"•'I ■» I'os-Klou as to -.lcr.v all,.(Tons '" <l«' "'lghty ,Va„g-tse f„ ,vacl, if. «iifi also under water, and nianv of die si or,, were, damaged. '< "alee rose so rapidly ,„„, suddenly thai I here was , U \ time ~n\v properly at. all : people w -,-". tlU'l-J to csut r tiilj, tjldl' Jiu-ft, ' U