CHINESE TYPHOON.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15319, 21 August 1923, Page 5

CHINESE TYPHOON.

MANY VESSELS WRECKED

AT LEAST 100 DROWNED.

FIFTY HOUSES COLLAPSE.

Australian nnrt N 7.. Cable Assn.

HONGKONG, August 19

So far about a score of vessels, including a number of large steamers ot various nationalities, are reported to be ashore at different places as the result of the typhoon. A few are holed and badly damaged, but the majority are expected to be refloated. Many smaller craft suffered severely At least 20 junks and a score of sampans were capsized, and it is estimated that 100 were drowned.

Vessels arriving report encountering considerable wreckage at sea.

Besides a large number severely damaged, at least 50 Chinese houses collapsed. Soldiers and firemen are engaged in reseue work, and have removed many dead and wounded from the debris.

WORST SiNOE 1906.

DEATH-ROLL OF 500 FEARED

WONDERFUL LIFE SAVING.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. HONGKONG, August 19.

The death-roll of the typhoon on Saturday is tentatively estimated at 500. The typhoon was the worst since 1905, the wind attaining a velocity of 130 miles an hour. During the worst two hours nearly Sin of rain fell. Squalls uprooted trees, snapped telegraph and telephone wires, and unroofed houses. The typhoon furnished a terrifying spectacle. Mountainous seas swept the harbour and washed over the seawalls, flooding the lower streets, and heaving variegated wreckage ashore. The Japanese steamer, Sinye Maru, provided the stage for a wonderful deed of life-saving. A British marine, named Twitegers, boarded her and was lowered from her bow with a lifeline attached. He swam through a raging sea 500 ft and saved Lieutenant Wickson, commanding the submarine L 9, which had sunk under him.