Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-10-16
,usrs ard Sailing Vessels BY
'' ,ss soore Wrecked, hunks by
' Tho thousands swamped.
CHORES s1REwN WITH DEAD
!, .,d,sds Of ManeIed Bodies
Oiled Among Debris Making
a Sickening Scene.
,,,,c IN Typhoon Not so Great
49, IN Larger craft as l" the
smaller Kind.

u . oct. 16.-Ten thous-
-, likes blotted out Il steamers ,a ana
aia W. .s,e,s wrecked or badly dam
el'us thousand tunks swamped'
"'o' V, osor or battered to pieces
'uIu.s ., me stone walls of the praya'
ass'ns AN, Of the lighters, launches
e v, houseboats and small native
'''"' a,,lyely destroyed. many wharves
'''' many damaged, was the re-
w. ,yphoon lasting but two hours
s'', ,, y on Sept. IS, according to
~ a,,is,, brought by the steamer EN-
. .,'.. 4, japan, one of the few vessels TO
49, 49, ,be holocaust, which arrived
',',,,v The Empress of Japan but
ny before gave place at the kow-
onany's wharf to the steamer
Ao which was entirely wreck
'9S1s'b M dock. Kowloon sustained
60 q .,Isst loss. but all sections of
lls u sory and the Hinter land suffer-
10"s Tsera were a Europeans among
~ ,nlsd, others were Chinese mostly
,Se ,s n" Mt and Junk population. They
,.n ak IAN for shelter when the waru-
, ussI nm vas fired, but on the morning
VA. ~ storm the signal was fired at S.l0
snS N $3.50 the typhoon was at It's
sl5sb, The Junk men skurried for
sbeI,sr. colIiding with each other, cut
,Ing down yachts, houseboats, etc,
striving through the driving rain to
,pach causeway bay. Thousands were
swept into the sea, which was
soon dashed into n fury, with
waves 20 and 30 feet high. The wind
blew the junks around and sent them
skirllng and twisting to be dashed to
lIeces against the praya, where hun
ireds vi junks and sampans were
lsshed TO matchwood and the mangled
Niles OF the crews battered against
NJ stone walls within sight of those
e shore, powerless TO lend aid. The
mm ceased as quickly as 1t began.
ne sun shOne then on scenes of UNI
RgaLeled destruction at Hongkong.
MS typhoOn exceeded all others ex-
lsfienced there IN severity.
Hundreds OF Chinese gathered on the
sea front walling, hundreds OF newly
made Widows wept bitterly, and many
sood stolldly looking on as Chinese
vailly do,
Hmdreds % bodies were swept
issee and the work OF carrying them
WY By carloads to impromptu
ndeues began at once, corpses being
Photographed in groups OF eight and
lsged for Identification
Hundreds Of mangled bodies were
led among the debris ana the scenes
'Ee slckening. II was evident soon af-
" !ne storm began that the shipping
would not ride 1t out, and vessel after
vessel dragged, sweryed and was driv-
N on shore, some being piled right
among the stately buildings which line
hohgKongs sea front The G. =. r..
Steamer Mont Eagle, which drove
esnore at k0wloon, broke the French
sunooals Froude and Francisque adrift
! t,a poth We're driven ashore, the latter
uelhs Total wreck ana I'VE OF her Off
tsfs crowned The steamer Kwone-
.noW ana Albatross both foundered
WIN All hands, each vessel having a
VINE master and engineer. The loss
II
not as great t6e innk n rYmer oor, wss
The dentissi 2uih Oh tne dead
Bishop ]. c. Hofer bisbon ~, r1on
Kong, whose mnk cansired W. .io''s
was bound on y mo 1870 is,zeu wneh ne
hshng village. 'V'"e0 " ii
Mr. W. F. Donaldson vic o,a 49,
children, Who were an NJ anu TWO
korgchow. ''u steaii'er
Capt Patrick ana rh,os r.u,
Wallace Of the stear,,er A1ha ns,isi''eer
Capt. Mead ana Chia, Hi' os.loss'
taO Of the Kwonrcbnn, "a s 1, Mor-
fed and Chief En on, a.u APP; MAX
ta Of the sfeanar e tIe', .. Wliiiam-
A list of tho s,oa r, W. noIs'
D damaged fn,lo,ys, sum- ashore
Sunk-Steamors Sa.
dt sorsogan Euonno ACCOMMODATIONS hpen,e-
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