Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-07

HongkOng by the way Of Japan ports
Is an arrival this afternoon, the YES
eel having sailed from Nagasaki, Kobe
and Yokohama at a time that ce
coast of Japan was visited by one %
the worst storms in its history.
At the time the Siberia departed for
Honolulu much loss Of maritime prop
eTty occurred at several ports through
cut the Empire.
The Siberia brings nearly one thou
sand tons of oriental freight for dis
charge at Honolulu. The vessel has
room for one hundred or more cabin
passengers. the through list of cabin
passengers being a rather small one.
According to officers in the Siberia
q typhoon swept over Japan on Sep
tcmber 22nd, and there followed much
loss to shipping, as Wei as destruc-
ton of property.
A torpedo boat and the destroyers
Iaohibana and rubuki were sunk in
iGe bay.
Toyko was completely isolated from
Geptember %. The typhoon carried
dCwn all the telegraph lines. Details
were merger. The most disastrous eff
fects of the storm were felt along the
south coast. At Yokohama the French
armored cruiser Duplex dragged its
anchor and went ashore.
At Shimonesch a Russian. mail boa 4
foundered The casualties, were un-
knowt Losses to shipping have been
serious. The Japanese battleships Sat
suma and the tender Mansi1u were dis
EIasted. Four destroyers and five tor
pedo boats were driven ashore. e.
There was a heavy loss of life at
Nagoya, capital of the. prefecture of
Aichi. island of Hondo, where scnool
and other buildings collapsed.
II. Hackfeld & Company will dis
patch the Siberia for San Francisco at
ten o'clock tomorrow morning IL all
goes well with the removal Of the
cargo.
The vessel cut out call at Shangt
hal on the homeward trip owing to the
prevalence of cholera there.
The vessel brought a number Of
Filipino and Japanse in the Asiatic
steerage. ~
The Siberia brings one cabit pa
senger, and seven second class for Ho-
nolulu, together with 355 Asiaties Of
which 121 are Japanese % Chinese
and 211 Filipinos
The vessel carries "a cabin passen-
gers and has plenty or room. There
was no sickness on board during the
voyage and she passed through the
heart, Of the typhoon country unscath-
ed.
Sherman Dodged Typhoon's Fury.
The center of a, typhoon passed to
the eastward of the United States
army transport Sherman as she lay
at Nagasaki, Japan, where several
thousand tons coal were being placed
aboard, and at the same time repairs
were made to boilers and machinery
in the troopship.
A storm that created great havoc
with shipping at several northern
ports, missed the transport much to
the joy of the staff Of o-.cers.
Philippine scout officers are travel
ing to the mainland in goodly num-
bers. Sailing from Manila on Sept.
18th the transport called at Nagasaki,
there remained several days. The "Trip
across the Pacific Is said to have been
very pleasant one, smooth seas ana
favorable winds being the rule most
OF the long voyage.
The Sherman was berther at Alakea
wharf shortly after two o'clock yester-
day afternoon and is scheduled to de-
prrt for San Francisco at four O'Clock
this afternoon.
Several hours before the troopship
entered the channel to take her place
at the wharf, c. H. Rigley, a former
United States quartermaster employee
and alleged as insane by officers in the
vessel leaped from the after part of
had not come to a halt from the long
voyage when the cry. Man over
board" rang through the vessel With
in ten minutes boat had been lower
ed, and the man was once more in
safe keeping at a ward in the ships
hospital.
The transport has a large first and
second cabin passenger list, but COM
Paratively few in the steerage Among
army, many of whom are going back
TO the Coast for discharge. 100 men VI
the navy, twenty-five marines, and
twenty-five of all services in the hospl-
tai There are also twenty-seven mill
tary prisoners and forty eX-army en-
ployes, making total og Sal. Captain
Frank d. Ely, p. S. A. @. c., is the
Quartermaster in charge.
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Schooner Spokane At Hiio.
Laden with a large quantity Of ium-
Der, the American schooner Spokane
came into Hilo harbor late Saturday
afternoon. This vessel started out
from Everett. Washington. at the
same time as did the lumber laden
schooner Taurus. Both vessels carried
cargo for Hilo 1t was mooted in
coast shipping circles that the pro-
spects of a race were very pattering
ds considerable rivalry is said to exist
between the shippers. The Spokane
is believed to have beaten the Taurus
br at least one day as the windjam