THE HONGKONG TYPHOON
BRISBANE, October 11. Details of the Hongkong typhoon on September 18 show that it was the most appalling and destructive ever experienced by the colony. It is estimated that fully 50 per cent, of those on the Chinese craft employed m the harbour were lost. JUie official records state that 1206 fishing hoats and other local crait were lost, and that 1147 persons are missing. Nine steamers and sailing ships sank, and 48 others were driven ashore, including the German ! steamer Prinz Waldemar and the French torpedo boat Fronde. Three officers and two- men of the latter were drowned. Besides Bishop Hoare, Captain Patrick and- Engineer Wallace (of the steamer Albatross}, Captain Mead and Engineer Morgan (of the steamer Kwongchow), Captain. Manfirfd and Engineer Williamson (of the steamer Hongkong), and nine other Europeans were drowned. Kowloong was harder bit than any other past of the colony. The wharves were •ompleteiy destroyed', the sea- walls broken down, and the railway beds of massiveconcrete crumpled up, while junks and saopans were- -tossed iigk on the quays, t>ig ships were dragged from their moorings*, and driven on the walls, and others suddenly sank. The peniEsula for miles was enveloped in deflation. i
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Otago Witness, Issue 2744, 17 October 1906, Page 24
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