THE HONGKONG TYPHOON.
AN APPALLING CATASTROPHE BRISBANE, October 11. Details received here by mail show that the Hongkong typhoon on September 18 was the most appalling and destructive ever experienced in that colony. It is estimated that fully five ,per cent, of the Chioese craft employed in the harbour were lost.
The official records state that 1206 fishing boats and other local craft were lost ; 1147 persons were missing ; nine steamers and sailing ships had sunk j and 48 others had been driven ashore, including the steamer Prinz Waldemar and the French torpedo boat Fronde, three officers and two men belonging to which were drowned. Bishop Hoare, Captain Patrick, and Engineer Wallace, of the steamer Albatross, Captain Mead and Engineer Morgan, of the steamer Kwongchow ; Captain Maxfield and Engineer Williamson, of the steamer Hong Kong, and nine other Europeans were tlrowned.
Kowloon was harder hit than any other part of the colony. Here the wharves completely disappeared, the sea walls were broken down, the railway beds of massive concrete were crumpled up, and junks and sampans were tossed high up on jfche quays, while a big ship dragged her moorings and was driven on the. walls, and others suddenly sank. The peninsular for miles was one expanse of desolation.
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Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8031, 12 October 1906, Page 3
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