The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-11-19
THE CHINESE TYPHO0N.
Nail Details Of the Terrible Destruction Of Life and
Property at Hong Kong and Macao.

Hong Kong Press, Sept. 261
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
Praya Grande are in ruins, and houses in all
directions fell from the force Of the terrific
gale. To add to the horrors of this, fires
broke out in various places, and the Church
OF st. Antonio and many fine buildings we're
burned to the ground Many hundreds of
lives were lost by the downfall Of houses and
by the fires.
One strange feature on board was boat for
ward, which was taken up into the air high
above the masts and came down aft with a
terrible crash. The barometer at 8 A. NJ. on
the 23d was $500. A feature in the barome-
ter not noticed before by those on board was
was observed to move round quickly, and as
the squalls lulled DIS quickly go back again.
Many people have lost everything they pos
sessed and been rendered homeless. The
whole Of the Praya Grande has been swept
away. The fine row of houses all along it has
been almost completely blown down, and
property everywhere has been destroyed. In
fact, Macao is in ruins, and the misery thus
entailed upon hundreds of the residents is
fearful while the loss of life is enormous.
SCENES OF HORROR.
A correspondent writes from Hong Kong,
October 4, as follows: "Hong Kong and the
harbor was desolate sight, indeed-vessels
stranded on the shore, broken to pieces, and
only the masts above water; what few re-
manned were either dismasted or the bare
bulls remaining, and of the thousands Of
native boats of all kinds, not single one was
floating Lying in front of the Pacific Mail
wharf, or where it used to be, is the wreck of
a large bark. Nearly all the wall facing the
Praya is gone; two steamers are sunken in
front of Douglass Laprake Wharf.-The Albay
and Leonore. The latter just arrived at the
commencement of the typhoon from Manila
1t is said she had 200 Chinese passengers
under her matches; the captain aud nearly all
the crew were lost. The captain was found
washed ashore nearly to Queens Road, the
main street. Aberdeen is almost entirely
destroyed, and the Wompoa Dock Company s
property damaged to the amount of $40, 600
Many lives were lost here. Among the debris
bodies, most OF them 50 crushed and dis
figured as to be past recognition. Next day
We waited patiently to hear the account of
the effects OF the typhoon at Macao, and the
loss of life is almost too awful to contem plate.
While the storm WAS raging the
PIRATES TOOK POSSESSION OF THU TOWN,
and set fire to it aud destroyed over seven
hundred houses. They pillaged and de-
stroyed the better portion of the city; all the
vessels, both foreign and native, were de-
stroyed. The Canton and Macao Company s
steamer White Cloud, bottom up. is high and
dry on shore. 1t is computed tina. over ten
thousand lives were lost in Macao alone.
Four days after the ell 1viam arising from
the thousands of decomposing bodies was so
great that the National Guards revolted and
refused to bury any more; and the Governor,
fearing that plague would soon follow if the
bodies were not disposed Of ordered them to
be burned. Four thousand were cremated,
first covering them with tar and then setting
fire to them. The loss of life in and around
the immediate vicinity of Hong Kong will e1-
coed 1000. I am very sorry to state large
number of Europeans were host, and the
whole number of lives lost will number over
20,0 GOO souls. The amount of property de-
stroyed goes far in the millions"