Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-18
FOR TWO HOURS
7yPHOON LASHED
HONG KONG PORT
All on Board One Ship Lost but
Purser and Mate. :
DOZEN SHIPS ARE WRECKED
Canadian Pacific Company's Mont.
DOZEN SHIPS ARE WRECKED
Canadian Pacific Company's Mont.
eagle is Blown Ashore.
ALL BUSINESS AT A STANDSTuL
Enormous Damage, the Extent Of
Which is Not Yet Known, Done to
shipping-An Important City.

A terrific typhoon swept across
the island of Hongkong in the China
sea this morning at 10 o'clock. Two
ships were sunk, another foundered
and all on board were lost except
the purser and the mate, and still
another ship went ashore. The ty-
phoon lasted for two hours and all
business in the city is suspended.
Great damage to the entire port was
done.
MANILA, September 1S.-CabIe reports
from Hongkong state that a typhoon which
sprang up suddenly at 10 o'clock this MORN
ing did enormous damage to the shipptnr
in that port
The steamer Fat Shan foundered and all
on board but the purscr and mate were lost.
dozen steamers in the harbor have
sunk. are in a sinking condition, or have
been driven ashore The American ship 8.
o. Hitchcock is ashore. The British steamer
Kong Chow has sunk The steamer Mont
Railroad Company, is ashore. Two other
British steamers. the San Cheung and the
Wing Chai have sunk. The Fat Shan n
ashore. The German steamer Johanne is be-
ing beached to- prevent her sinking Tho
German steamer Appenrade is in a sinking
condition, and the German steamers Signal
Petrareh and En,maluyken are ashore The
German steamer Prinz Baidenar was DAM
aged The Mont Eagle had her stern post
broken. Attempts are being made q float
her.
All business in the city is at a stand
still.
The typhoon lasted x<vo hours
The British steamer Monteagle arrived
at HonSkong September Ii from Vancou-
yer and Honolulu. The steamer registers
1892 tons net. is +45 feet long, 52.2 feet
beam, and 21.7 feet in depth. She was
built at Newcastle in 1899
Johenne Sailed August 1.
The German steamer Johanna sailed from
Deli an island off Java, Augusta The Jo-
hanne was built at Lubbock, Germany in
1903. registers, g52 tons net, is % feet long,
3G.2 feet beam and ISL feet in depth. She
is owned by NJ. Jebsen.
The British steamer Fatshan was built
at Leith in 1887 and is owned by the Hong
kong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Com
pany and the China Navigation Company
of Hongkong. The steamer registers 1,425
tons net is $50 feet long, 81 feet beam, and
1O.2 feet in depth.
The British steamer Sanchueng was
built at Hongkong in 1862, is of $50 tons
register 1898 feet long, 3d. feet beam. OIL
feet in depth. and is owned by the Cheung
On Steamboat Company of Hongkong.
The Island of Hong Kong.
Hongkong is an island situated in the
China sea off the coast of China, from
which ii is separated by narrow strait.
1t was yielded to Great Britain by treaty
in 1892 TIE roadstead has a well-protected
anchorage. Victoria, the capital dtself
comonly called Hongkong), is situated
on a magnificent bay of the same name,
setting up into the north side of the Is
land. Hongkong is a great center of the
foreign trade of China. Total exports are
roughly estimated at SIZE, 900: imports
at $1O0,O00,OO0. AS British colony on