The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-11-19

up to late in the afternoon l12 had
been secovered. A list of cver thirty
foreign steamers and large vessels is
given which were totally lost or seri.
ously disabled. The Macao steamer
Poyang, which arrived on Thursday
afternoon, brought very bad news OF
the disasters there. The typhoon and
fires together have almost leveled the
entire city. The whole of the houses
along the Prnya Grando are i'll ruins,
aud honses III all directions fell from
tho force of the terrific gale. To add
to the horror of this, fires broke out in
various places, aud the Church of st.
Antonio aud many fue buildiugs were
burned to tho ground. Many hundreds
OF lives were lost by the downfall of
houses and by the fires. The appear
nncn OF the culouy from the wuter was
nwfully grand.
Alter the typhoou, great difficulty
was experienced in removing the dead
bodies which came ashore in all ,lirec-
| tionc. The destruction of life in native
craft vastly outnumbers anything that
has occurred before. In ordinary ty-
| phonns the places OF shelter which the
Chinese. who have q marvellous instinct
la foreseeing the advent of these terri.
bio vlsitations. seek are sufficient to
protect the large bulk Of tho juuks and
sampans. The poor people had, iu the
present instance, relied upOn tho sh,
ter which bad afforded them protection
upon former occasions, but were ut
tnrly mistaken i'll their calculations, AS
their craft were driven irota their
places OF refuge, aud, in the words of
AN eyewitness. who himself had u
narrow escape in his vessel, large jnuks
broke up actually like match-boxes
Ouo vi the cill:ers who wax on board
the Pacific mail steamer Alaska, say,
that lle saw batch Of fully lUU inuks
| i"nnder all at ouce. The misery which
hns been spread, both in this colony
aud Macao. is something appalling.
Ono OF tho salaust considerations il
that numbcrlrss junks have utterly
gone to atoms with every soul on
board. SO that hundreds of people must
De Kept In lene ethencd suspense as to
the fate OF friends and relatives, of
which no one lives to tell tho tale
a correspondent writes from Hong
Kong. October I, AS follows: "Hong
Kong and tue llurbor was d desol,te
sight, indeed-vessels stranded on the
shore. broken to pieces, and only the
masts above the water; what few re-
manned were either dismasted or the
bare hulls remaining, and. Of the thou
sands OF native boats of all kiuds, not
a single one was floating It is said
that steamer which was aunk had
20O Chinese passengers under her
matches; the captain and nearly all the
crew were lost. The captain was
found washed ashore nearly To Qnecn's
Rood. the main street. Aberdeen is
almost entirely destroyed. and the
Wompoa Dock Company's property
damaged to TIC amount of SAC, 900.
Many lives wore lost here Among the
debris of one small building L counted
fourteen dead bodies, most of them so
crushed and distigured as TO be past
recognition. Next day we waited i'm
patieHtly to hear the account of tho tf-
fects Of the typhoon at Macao. aud the
loss OF life is almost too awful to con
template. While the storm WAS raging
the pirates took possession of the
town, and set fire to it and destroyed
over 700 houses. They pillaged aud
destroyed the better portion of tho
city; all the vessels, both native and
foreign. we're destroyed. The Canton
and Macao Company's steamer White
Cloud, bottom up, is high and dry on
shore. 1t is computed that over TO-
Oc0 lives were lost in the Macao alone.
Four days after, the ,ffinvium arising
from the 10000 Of decompos.
ing bodice was 80 great that the
National Guards revolted and refused
to bury any more; and the Governor,
fearing that q plague would soon fol-
low if the bodies were not disposed of,
| ordered them to be burned. 1000
! were cremsted, first covering them
with tar and then setting fire to them
The loss of life in aud around the i'm i.
mediate vicinity of Hong Kong will
exceed 4. 900. am very sorry to state
large number of Europeans were lost,
and the whole Ann ber OF lives lost
will number over 20,OaU sonls. The
amount Of property destroyed goes far
u the millions.
STOCKS AND BONDS AT Auction. Mr..
Louis d. DeSaussure sold. in Charles
ton. on the 18th, the following securi-
ties: 81. 500 city Of Charleston six per
cent. stock, redeemablo in 1881, ut 80;
$40 city Of Charleston six per cent
stock, redeemabie in 1896, ut SO; $500
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