Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-09-19
fR|CHTFUL ARE
 THE TIE DETAILS Thousands of Lives Were Lost in That 1yphoon of Yesterday in
 Hong Kong MILLIONS OF DOLLARS LOST Chinese Water Dwellers Buried in the Wreckage of the Docks
 and Vessels.

Hong hOnS, sept lJ.-1u0 tyIulOOl
 which swept this port yesterday de
 stroying q great number of vessels and
 causing much loss of life was of To
 cal nature. It canes suddenly and
 without warning. The observatory had
 predicted moderate winds. Half an
 hour after the gun signal had been
 fired the storm was at It's height. IL
 lasted two hours. Most of the damage
 done was wrought on the Kowloon
 peninsula. The losses are estimated
 at several million dollars.
 Over 1000 sampans. and junks are
 missing from Hong Kong alone.
 Wharves were swept away and houses
 collapsed. The military barracks are
 in ruins.
 The steamers Monteagle, Fatshan.
 Heungshan, Wing Chai, Hermania,
 Castellano. Tax Hing, Emma Luyken,
 San Rosario, Slava, Pakhong. Pe- trarch, Chum Lee, Sexta, Sunon, Chang Sha, Signal and Chinkai Maru are ashore The American ship s. r. Hitchcock was also driven ashore. as were many of the launches that run about the harbor. The steamers Kwong Chow, San chewng. Sorsogon and Honeymoon were sunk. The steam CTS Apenrade and Johanne gre partly smashed. The British reserve sloOp Phoenix and n small boat, the Dongola are ashore. The British torpedo moat destroyers MoOrhen, Robin and Taku were damaged. The Sir William Jervois was sunk. The French torpe- do boat destroyer Fr0nde was wrecked and the Francisque Is ashore. The guns of the Fronde were saved. but three petty officers and one seaman lost their lives.
 A Chinese revenue cutter Is ashore, and several Indo- China and Manila liners narrowly escaped disaster.
 The harbor is strewn with wreck age thrown up on the shore. Hun dreds of Chinese boatmen and their families were saved by tine bravery or police and civilians, but several thou sands of the Chinese water-dwellers must have Eerished, many within short distances of the shore. The losses in lives and property among the Chinese were appalling. To-day the police sta tions In Hong Kong are surrounded hy Chinese identifying their dead. The l families of the Hong Kong boatmen live night and day on the sampans. | and thousands of these people are now | homeless.
 The Chinese take the disaster calm ly. and show no manifestations or grief. II
 One launch that was capsized had l3O 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 md left Captain Thomas. who was in |ured, one officer and the engineer to navigate the Fatshan to Shelter bay. where she was blown ashore.
 The bishop of Victoria. Dr ]. c. Hoare, was on his way to visit some islands when the storm ,roke, and Is reported missing. His aunch has been found floating bottom upwards.
 Many valuable steel lighters have ,een lost. Some of them were hurled shore. Channels will have to be dug O permit some of the vessels ashore o be re-fioated. The force of the wind md waves were such that some ves- els were landed almost high and dry.
 The Japanese steamer Sada Maru escued sIxty-six natives and one Eng sh pilot as she was approaching long Kong. The English mail steam rs Delhi and Poona escaped damage. The British cruiser Terrible entered ort yesterday afternoon and report ( d fine weather mp to the harbor.
 Sir Matthew Nathan, governor of long Kong, and the authorities are oIng everything possible to render as- |stance.
 Reports of fresh disasters are ar- wing every hour. Only q few Europeans are missing. No reports are on hand to show how l, ,e fishing fleets and the ships outside ,e harbor fared. Public opinion is incensed at the , for not reporting the ap- /. roach of the typhoon- An Inquiry ' ,s been demanded. For years past le observatory has been subjected to ( iverse comment. but on this occa- c on 1t Is not believed to be blame I ,Ie.