The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-10-18
HONG KONG LOSS AWFUL.
TEN THOUSAND LIVES AND SIC, 000,-
600 IN PROPERTY WIPED OUT
BY TYPHOON.
24 EUROPEANS DIED.
Chinese Thrown Into Sea by Sudden
Fury, Everything Smashed and Then
Sun Shines Over Horror.

VICTORIA, b. c., Oct. 16. - Ten
thousand lives blotted out. seventeen
steamers and sailing vessels wrecked or
badly damaged, over 1000 Junks
swamped. turned over or battered to
pieces against the stone walls of the
Praya; 50 per cent of the lighters,
launches. yachts, houseboats and small
native craft entirely destroyed, many
wharves wrecked, many damaged-this
was the result OF a typhoon lasting but
two hours at Hong Kong on September
IS according to advices brought by the
steamer Empress of Japan, one of the
few vessels to escape the disaster, which
arrived yesterday.
The Empress of Japan but a dag be-
fore gave place at the Kowloon COM
pany's wharf to the Changsha, which
was entirely wrecked at the dock.
Kowloon sustained the heaviest loss,
but all sections of Hong Kong and the
Hinterland suffered.
Twentyfour Europeans Died.
There were twenty-four Europeans
among those killed; others were Chinese
mostly of the boat and junk population.
warning gun was fired but on the morn
ing of the storm the signal was fired
ut $40 and at $50 the typhoon was at
its height The junk men skurried for
shelter. coliding with each other, cut
ting down yachts. houseboats etc, striv-
ing through the urlylng rain 10 reach
Causeway bay.
Thousands were soon thrown into the
sea, dashed to a fury, with waves 20 and
80 feet high. The wind blew the junks
around and sent them swirllng and
twisting to be dashed to pieces against
the Praya, where hundreds of Junks and
saTpans were dashed to natchwood,
md the mangled bodies of the crews
battered against the stone walls within
sirht of those on shore pOwerless to lend
aid.
Sun Shines on Horror.
The storm ceased as quickly as it be
gan. The sun shonC then on scenes OF
unparalleled destruction ut Hong Kong.
This typhoon exceeded all others expert
enced there in severity. Hundreds Of
Chinese gathered on the sea front wall
ing. hundreds of newly made widows
wept bitterly, and many stood stolidly
looking on as Chinese usually do.
Hundreds of bodies wcru swept ashore
and the work of carrying them away by
carloads TO imprOmptu mOrgues began
at once, corpses being photographed in
groups Of eight and tagged for identica-
ton.
Hundreds of manged bodies were piled
among the debris and the scenes were
sickeniug. 1t was evident soon after
the storm began that the shipping would
not ride it out.
The European Dead.
The identified European dead are
Bishop ]. {. Hofcr, bishop of Hong Kong,
Whose junk capsized when he was bound
Oh preaching voyage to fishing village.
W t. Donaldson, wife and two children,
Tho We're on the steamer kwong Chow.
Capt. Patrick and Chief Engineer Wallace
of the steamer Albatross
Capt. Mead and Chief Engineer Morgan of
the kwOnG Chow, and Capt. MaXteld and
chief Engineer j. Williamson, of the steam.
tr Hong Kong.
Steamers That Suffered.
A list of steamers sunk, ashore, or
damaged, follows:
Sunk-Stcamers Sanchcong. Ayentcdc,
Sorsogan, kwong Chow, AlbatrosS, ferse.
Ashore-Stcamers Montcagle (afterward
rctloatcd), lleung- shan, kinshana; Changsa,
Fatshan, Wingsal. roEhng, Honeymoon
Suuuno Phoenix, Rosario, French gunbogtS
Frouudc and Franctsque, Joannr, SeXta.
Single, Petrarch Enmae Luilen ana Ameri-
can ship Hotchkss, this vessel being right
upon the sea wall near Torpedo Depot.
Dumaged-Stcumers Prinz Waldemar. De-
vagongse, Quinta, Starthmore, Coptic, Red
BERKSHIRE, Poona.
Damage S2o,ooO000.
When the European officers were en-
deavorng to save the steamer Hung
shaug, calamity swimming ashore with
life lines. thieves started to loot the bag
gage of the passengers. After saving
the vessel the officers turned their at
tentun to the hooters, most of whom es-
capped ashore. some being drowned.
The damage at Hong Kong and kow-
loon and vicinity is estimated at over
S2O0OOOOO. The damage in the city
was not enormous, being confined to up
lifted roofs, broken windows. etc The
bulk of the loss was in the harbor and
on the water front.
Hurricane Reforms Islands.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. 1G.-
Damage of fully $l,Uo0OoO. including the
partial demolition of town near Blue
fields, Nicaragua, was done by n hurri-
cane on the coast of Central America.
Probably no loss Of life occurred. Little
and Great Corn islands were swept bare
of vegetation and even their topography
altered. On the mainland rubber and
banana crops We're destroyed and plan