THE TYPHOON AT GUAM.
WRECK OF AN AMERICAN CRUISER. FIVE OF HER CREW DROWNED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PORT DfcRWIN, December 29. (Received December 29, at 9.36 a~m.) Details of ths typhoon at Guam, an island ceded to the United States after the Span-ish-American War, and the loss of the U.S. cruiser Yosemite are to hand. The storm was the worst ever experienced on the island. Houses were* wrecked and the crops ruined. It is feared that unless relieved the native population will die of starvation. In the early part of the storm five of the Yosemite's crew, in attempting to find shelter, were drowned through their boat capsizing. The cruiser dragged her anchor and bumped on a reef, knocking a hole in her fore compartment and carrying away the rudder post, besides damaging the propeller. She was then driven a hundred miles to sea, but was kept afloat for two days by the greatest exertions of her officers and crew. A passing vessel took off the crew, vpho scuttled the vessel, before she sank beneath the ocean.
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Evening Star, Issue 11434, 29 December 1900, Page 6
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177THE TYPHOON AT GUAM. Evening Star, Issue 11434, 29 December 1900, Page 6
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