The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-20

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Hongkong. Sept. 1s.-The typhoon
which swept this port. destroying a
great number of vessels and causing
much loss of life. was OF local ma
ture. It came suddenly and without
warning. The observatory had pre-
dicted moderate winds Half an hour
after the gun signal had been fired, the
storm was at its height. 1t lasted two
hours. Most of the damage done was
wrought on the Kowloon peninsula.
The losses are estimated at several mil
lion dollars. over / 1000 sampans and
junks are missing from Hongkong
alone. Wharves were swept away and
houses collapsed. The military bar
racks are in ruins.
Steamers Ashore.
The steamers Monteagle, Fatshan,
keuns Shan, Wing Chat, Hermania,
Castellano, Taking Emma Luyken,
San Rosario. Slava, Pakhong. Petrarch
Chum Lee, Sexta, Sunon, Chang Sha
Signal and Chinkai Maru are ashore
The American ship S. p. Hitchcock was
also driven ashore, as were many of the
launches that run about the harbor
The steamers KwOng Chow, San
Chewing, Sossogon and Honeymoon were
sunk. The steamers Apenrade and Jo-
hanne are partly awash. The British
reserve sloop Phoenix and a small gun
boat, the Donsola, are ashore. The
British torpedo boat destroyers Moor
hen, Robins and Taku were damaged
The Sir William Jervois was sunk The
French torpedo boat destroyer Froude
was wrecked and the F'rancisque is
ashore. The guns of the Froude were
saved. but three petty officers and one
seaman lost their lives.
Chinese revenue cruiser is ashore
and several Indo-China and Manila lin
ers narrowly escaped disaster.
Appalling Loss of Life.
The harbor is strewn with the wreck
age thrown upon the shore Hundreds
OF Chinese boatmen and their families
were saved by the bravery of the po-
lice and civilians, but several thousand
Of the Chinese water dwellers must
have persisted, many within short dis
tances Of the shore. The losses in
lives and property among the Chinese
were appalling. Today the police sta
tons in Hongkong are surrounded by
Chinese identifying their dead. The
families OF the Hongkong boatmen live
night and day on the sampans. and
thousands of these people are now
homeless.
The Chinese take the disaster calm
~ and show no manifestations of grief
one launch that was capsized had 100
Chinese on board. They were all
drowned.
The river steamer Fatshan drifted
into collision with the French mail
steamer. The entire Chinese crew
climbed aboard the French steamer
and left Captain Thomas. who was in
tured, one officer and the engineers 20
navigate the Fatshan to shelter in the
bay where she was blown ashore.
Bishop Missing.
The bishop of Victoria. DR.. T. G.
Hoare, was on his way to visit some
neighboring islands when the storm
broke, and is reported missing. His
launch has been found floating bottom
upwards.
Many valuable steel lighters have
been lost. Some of them were hurled
ashore. Channels will have to be dug
TO permit some of the vessels ashore
10 be relocated. The force Of the wind
and waves were such that some YES
sells were stranded almost high and
dry.
The Japanese steamer saba Marl1
rescued sixty-six natives and one Eng
lish pilot as he was approaching Hong
kong. The English mail steamers Del
hi and Poona escaped damage
The British cruiser Terrible entered
port yesterday afternoon and reported
fine weather up TO the harbor
Sir Matthew Nathan. governor of
Hongkong, and the authorities are do
ing everything possible to render as
Sistance. Reports of fresh disasters arc
arriving every hour. Only a few T;u-
ropeans are missing.
No reports are on hand to show how
the fishing fleets and the ships outside
the harbOr Jared.
Public opinion is incensed at the OBJ
servatory for not reporting the APP
preaching typhOon. An inquiry las
been demanded. For years past the
observatory has been subjected to ad-
verse comment, but on this occasion II
is not believed to be blameable.