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TYPHOON DEAD
NUMBER 10000
Horror Haunts Ruined Streets
Of Swallow; China
NO BUILDING UNSCATneO
u, S. Consulate Unroofed, But it is
Said No Americans Lost lives-h''
racuIous Escape of Three Nuns.

| Hongkong, Aug. S.-Casualties in the
syphoon and tidal wave which last
| Wednesday swept the port of SwatoW
! 200 miles north Of here, now are estl'
! mated at 10000.
Another British steamer. in addition
| T. the TWO previously reported ashore
! was bound from Hongkons 10 Shan&
| i:ai, when she met the fury OF Tie ~
| nhuon and was wrecked, but her pas
! :pngers were saved.
Desolation hovers over the ruined
city and horror haunts its streetS.
In the native quarters hundreds "'
:orpses and The carcasseS OF animals
gre mingled with the debris. IL Is
estimated that more than % per reni
If the city's buildings were destroyed
Including the silk knitting factories
ind the old German consulate.
The American consulate and the
Standard Oil company's warehouse
were slightly damaged.
A Swatow Chinese newspaper re
norts that lawleSs elements raided the
houses of typhoon victims and heit
up passersby for plunder, but prompi
action by police prevented wholesale
looting.
The police frustrated an attempt Il
loot the offices of the Banque Indus
trielle de China, arresting TWO mel
The destruction was almost com
ulete, with the exception of the Ch',
nese postoftice. No building escupe'
damage.
To all appearances Swatow thu
scene of war-rayaged tOwn-one
heap of ruins The tidal wave whicl
swept the bund, or harbOr road. at th'
height of the typhoon inflicted consid
cradle damage to the Waterfront
buildings.
The British in Hongkong have re
mitted $4,000 to the British consul a
Swatow and are shipping rice for dis
tribution among the homeless and des
titute The SwatOw Municipality
Charitable Association is raising sub
scriptiOns for relief fund.
The captain of the steamer Hsin
his vessel fifteen miles before each
ing Swatow from Shanghai, encounter
ed corpses and carcasSes floating OF
the ebb tide.
On Double Island, the summer re
sort of Swallows foreign community
not a single house was intact:
Inside SWatOw harb0r boats tina;
took refuge there present one mass o.
wreckage Refugees had been caugh
like rats in traps and corpses tioatet
in a promiscuous heap.
Three catholic sisters in charge o.
the Ursuline Convent at Swatow, on.
of them British, the others French
Canadians, had miraculous escape.
from the tidal wave that followed tht
typhoon, according to advices received
here from Bishop A. Rayssac, of th'
Mission Catholique, Swatow.
The Catholic church and mission
building successfully weathered tht
typhoon, but the compound wall col
lapSed before the onrushing waters
The terrific wind carried away th'
roof of the Ursuune Convent, and the
three sisters in charge were caught b!
the flood as they were making fOl
safety in the cellar.
One of the sisters clung TO the
churchyard gate, while a second wa:
carried to comparative security on tht
floating roof of nearby building, upol
which she had scrambled.
The mother superior, Sister Mari.
Rosary, tioated on a drifting bed unit
daybreak and had been given up a.
drowned when she was found by two
Chinese Christians and brought bacl
to the mission compound.
All the church vestments, the per
sonal belongings Of the inhabitants o.
the convent and the equipment of tn.
school were carried away, destroyed
by the wind and water
No word has been heard from tht
Catholic missions at Chaochowfu ant
kityang, and it is feared they have
been wrecked