CYCLONES IN CHINA SEAS.
FOOCIIOW AND FORMOSA SWEPT. THOUSANDS OF DEATHS: HUNDREDS OF VESSELS I.OST. •;• " , (By; Tc'.egraph.-Prqss Assoriation.-CopyrighU > 1 Sydney, October 23. . Eastern files received at Port Darwin contain details' of th 6 oyoloiie ! at : Fooehow, in China, ■ on September 15. ■ : 1 . Tlie strorm, tfh'ich" wastlie worst'4nowri/ for forfy . years, tamo.TriKhoiit': warning, • and - .ter-. . rible damage was (lon?»botli ashore and afloat Fotty. .peis cent;- of tho native craft were do- 1 cargo• boats. .' The .cruiser Haichai; parted fro® jit 1 cobles and drifted on-to the rocks, being considerably. . damaged. - ■ Twenty : of the-;' crow; ' stricken-with: panic, l jumped; overboard .and wero drowned. ; - . ■ The river was full of dead,bodies- and wreckage.'; It is ; estimated"that" the 'total-loss-pf life . was two. thousand/ ■. , . ,■ .' A-typhoon'at-Formosa;--on September 1-t;'de-vastated tho. northern part of tho islands; Oun i htfnilrfeil' and . twelve .vpssels-. wero.wrecked, '.six•'teen thousand: buildings"; destroy .lives lost. ' . . A second cyclone on September 18 swept the ' noHKefti' arid central/districts;-' Tllo ; Tamn-ii • River, overflowed; .hundreds' of buildings' wore bio 1 ™ down or washed away, and a great num. her of. people.-were .drowned- or- crushed- to' death. v--iv-' ■■';./ . . ; ; -:Tho- railway- is', seriously damaged;-,-and : - tho 'cable line Foocho«(,-is'destroyed.-:-'
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 646, 25 October 1909, Page 7
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