Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-08-31
FEARFUL TYPHOON.
Many Lives Lost and One Bark and Four
Steamers Totally Destroyed.
A letter from Yokohama, Japan,
dated July 2lst. saws:

A letter from Yokohama, Japan
dated July 2lst, says:
On the 18th of July a very heavy
typhoon visited the coast of Japan
and several of the seaports suffered
more or less severely. The storm
commenced about midnight of the
4th, gradually increasing about II
P. u. of the next night. At the
same time the sea arose to 4 tremen-
dous height, and eventually became
so boisterous and high as to assume
the appearance of a tidal wave. The
sea washed away the stone sea wall
in front of the Foreign Concession.
flooding the same for three streets
back of the bund to the depth OF
about four feet and doing consider
able damage to the foreign residen-
ces and storehouses. Below the
Concession, where still the great
bulk of business is carried on, es-
pecially the retail business, the
damage was still greater. This
port of Hiego is not protected by 4
sea wall, and the sea, having nothing
to oppose its progress, rushed with
terrific fury up the sandy beach, in
undating the houses and creating
terrible destruction among all kinds
Of property. Several houses were
totally destroyed, some of the in
mates barely escaping with their
lives by making for the hills. Some
had to swim or wade, before reaching
place of safety.
The shipping in the harbor suffer
ed fearfully. About six hundred
native boats were sunk or destroyed
and over four hundred japanese
lost their lives. The British bark
Pride of the Thames sank right at
her anchorage, carrying along with
her to watery grave the captain,
first and second officers, the steward
and several of her crew tChinamen }
Four steamers belonging to Twom-
bley, of the firm of Fogg & Co,
Shanghae China and Japan trad
ing company were totally destroyed.
These steamers ply between Hioga
and Osaco, and the loss to the own
er of these alone cannot be less than
100000. The only lives lost among
the foreigners are those who went
down with the Pride of the Thames.
The total loss to the settlement,
native and foreign, will foot up over
800, 100000 Several other vessels
narrowly escaped being wrecked.
All the loss sustained will fall upon
the owners of the property, with the
exception of the Pride of the
Thames, which loss will have to be
by the underwriters. To
show the force of the water, an iron
safe, weighing over five tons, stand
ing in front OF a store q hundred
yards from the water, was carried a
distance of ten yards.
The natives say that this is the
severest storm that has ever visited
the port. "A great many junks were
lost, through which over q hundred
persons lost their lives. Several
houses were blown down in the
native portion of the city, but the
loss to the foreign settlers was very
incOnsiderable. Capt. Hubbard, of
the steamship Augusta, states that
the barometer commenced to lower
lt twelve o'clock noon of the 9th
INST, when it stood at 29.5I. At
midnight it was down TO 2S.40, reach
ng the lowest point at half past
one A. NJ, of the 9th, when it indi-
lated 1927. At this time the wind
began to abate, the sea to subside,
md at six A. NJ. of that day every
hing was calm and quiet, the piled
up wrecks on the beach alone tes-
flying to the terrible storm of the
previous night.