TERRIFIC TYPHOON AT HONG KONG.
DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS,
NUMBER OF STEAMERS
FOUNDER.
Received September 19, 11.21 p.m. HONG KONG, September 19. Upwards of one hundred people were drowned in two hours by a terrific typhoon at Hong Kong. The damage is estimated at several million dollars. Eight steamers are stranded. Several foundered. Numerous collisions have occurred. Ibe American vessel S. Hitchcock was oast high and dry on the Kow loon seawall. By means of a tug constantly towing her the liner Empress of Japan was saved. The sloop Phoneis and tbe French destroyer Franoisque were wrecked.
NO WARNING OF 'IHE STOKM
VESSELS PILED UP IN THE STREETS. NATIVES SUFFER HEAVILY. HUNDREDS DROWNED. Reoeived SepSember 19, 11.35 p.m. HONGKONG, September 19. (Several gunboats were damaged. The Frenoh destroyer Froude collided with another vessel. Twenty sailors perished. There was no warning of the coming storm. Liners, junks, sampans and ferry boats were suddenly piled up in the streets.
The ohief fatalities were amongst tbe natives, hundreds in their buats sinking in the Canton River.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8241, 20 September 1906, Page 5
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175TERRIFIC TYPHOON AT HONG KONG. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8241, 20 September 1906, Page 5
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