The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-10-18
TERsI1lC TYPHooN IN oHrrA.
Lee OF Ferev Thouea>a NV.

TER8IRlC TYPHOON IN OHNNA.
Less Of Ferry Thousand Lives,
Inc Hong Trade Report Of August 10th gives
the particulars of terrific typhoon with which
some OF the principal cities in China had just
previously been visited, and which was men.
toned few days ago in telegraphic des-
patch from Cape Race. We extract the fol-
lowing:
AtyphooR Of unprecedented violence swent
Hong Kong. Macao, Canton and Wbamnoa-
on Sunday, 9th July, 1862, committing dread.
full ravages on property and being the cause of
the loss Of forty thousand lives.
The centre passed over Canton and Wh.m.
poa. Macao did not have it quite so strong.
and Hong Kong escaped with stiff gale, which
simply caused . few ships in the harbor to foul
one another.
The most peculiar feature in this terrific
scourge is the short time it lasted and the ex.
traordinary high tide, eight feet higher than
usual.
At Hong Kong Mr.. Max wenzler, of the firm
Of Messrs. Courjau, Hubner & Co., was drown
ed by the capsizing of his boat in the harbor.
crews saved. Several houses belonging to
Chinese fell down, causing the death Of many
of their inmates. Hong Kong may be consid-
cred as having come off we'll
CASUALTIES IN MACAO.
Whole fleets Of west coast boats are lost In
the inner harbor of Macao alone, one hundred
sugar, oil, and other boats have been lost.
Lhe Fast boats, on their passage from Hong
Kong to Macao, were lost-one of them with
sixty souls on board. The Praya Grande is
az Al
houses, garden, verandahs, &c. considerable.
the outer Roads, laden with cargo for New
York. The glass stood as follows on board:
The sympiesometer touched 81 deg. 16 sec.;
the most sensitive marine barometer q deg.
10 sec.; the lower marine barometer 20 deg.
We hear that another captain in the roads re.
ports his marine barometer as low as % deg:
40 sec.
The loss of life in the inner harbor alone
was seven hundred.
CASUALTIES IN wHAMpoA.
New Town and Bamboo Town, two villages
forming part and parcel of Whampoa, are one
mass of ruins, hardly native house is stand
ing. The custom-house chop was capsized
with nine tide-waiters Europeans) in her,
four of whom were drowned; the Bethel was
smashed to pieces, nearly all the chops went
on shore. After the gale was over, no sam
pans could be seen, and laborers were not to
be had. The loss of life in Whampoa is esti-
mated at six thousand.
CASUALTIES IN CANTON.
With few exceptions the river YVES clean
swept of all its flower boats, and every other
kind of boat; houses fell and killed people by
the hundred; large junks broke adrift and came
laundering up the river, doing much damage
to the Shameeu Site, and the houses along
shore. 1t is estimated that forty thousand
lives have been lost in Canton and its vicinity.
The maudarins are giving one dollar for every
body found. Eight thousand have already
been spent. The Rev. Mr. Guilliard was kill
ed by wall of his house falling on him.
The ruin caused by this thphoon Is wide
pread, In Canton it came on to blow at 9 80
A. NJ. the glass standingat 96s and wind
from N. E. The wind veered to S. E. at II
A. NJ. 1t was a dead calm at noon and the
sun shining-and then blew furiously from s.
to s. w., passing away ut that point Lowest
pitch of barometer 90 II. The Imperial fleet
of war vessels, numbering sixty, with an inn
mense fotilla Of covered soldiers boats, are
all dispersed and their wrecks line the shore.
Ten merchant iunks remain. at their cid .Hei.,
orage. The war junks had just been reviewed
and were upon the point of being dispatched
for the north, covered with paint and decked
with flags, but with few effective guns. The
gale was very severely felt in the new suburbs
where the town has not yet been entirely re-
built; detached houses of great depth went
down as if they were built Of cards. In one Of
these near the Five Genii gate, one hundred
and sixty refugees from the river &c. had eff
fected lodging, when they were overwhelmed
in its ruins.
The old Chinese boat people say that within
their recollection there has not been so heavy
a typhoon nor so high tide. tits ruin for
q populous place like Canton, to be in the GEN.
tire. Macao was in the centre in the typhoon
of July, 1s41, and the strength of this one was
very similar to the Macao one, as also in its
phenomena as regards the way in which the
wind vi cred round from N. E. at 8 A. NJ. and
S. w. at 8 P. NJ
THE ARMY SIGNAL CoRPs.-A correspondent