TYPHOON IN THE CHINESE SEAS.
On the 2nd, the long anticipated annual Typhoon made its appearance, heralded in the morning by a coppercolored sky, a rapidly falling barometer, a hot angry wind from the south, and a high sea. A strong gale blew tit about 8 o'clock, and increased in intensity, accompanied by torrents of rain, till nearly 2 o'clock, when it abated. Shattered tiles, broken plaster, flooded rooms throughout the foreign settlement, three ruiued h if at the camp, attest its force; but provideu-
tially only one instance of loss of life has to be recorded —■ a Japanese crushed beneath the ruins of his house. The exceptionally high waves which washed the walls of the Bund toppled over stone after stone of the coping, and the damage done to the French hatoba in the storm of August 20th, and uever repaired, was so intensified as to render it almost useless. At the English hatoba many large boulders were carried sheer over from one side to the other. Fortunately the shipping in the harbor escaped with comparatively little damage. The damage caused by the typhoon at Yedo has been very great, and over 30 people have been drowned, and others crushed beneath the houses that were blown down. Six junks of the largest size, together with 13 smaller ones, and a steamer owned by a Japanese company at Yedo, which were anchored in the river near to the Yeitai Bridge, parted their cables, and drove on to the bridge, and are now all completely wrecked. The bridge is broken in half, and it will take a. long time to repair it, it being one of the largest in Yedo. At a place named Nerimn Mura, about two and a half miles from Yedo, a large meteorite fell. It is computed to be 3001b to 400!b in weight. It fell on Saturday night. A small island, calied Itsushima, about half a mile in circumference, near to the coast at Yodo, has been swept away and submerged beneath the sea. Numerous lives wer3 lost upon the coast, several junks with their crews, it is said foundering iu the gale. —' : Japau Herald," November 12.
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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 772, 4 February 1871, Page 2
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361TYPHOON IN THE CHINESE SEAS. Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 772, 4 February 1871, Page 2
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