The destruction of bagh not to be curred in Canton, has atill been very conside y on Thursday, ventured to the Preaching About two o'clock, whiler preaching, the akg became almost black ay night and one of the most terrific thunder storms that 1 ever remember burst upon us, Flash after flash of vivid lightning succeeded each other, followed by er ies of thunder only to be compared to a hundred cai bursting over our heads, The rain came down in torrents
and thunder had subsided, and at four o'clock by which, time the lightning the storm had abated. During the whole time there was not the slightest wind that I peri On the other hand, the air was close and still, Walking home I found that several houses and temples bad been struck by lightning, had been cut almost to pieces by the falling of 1d 1 met one poor man whose face: and head
a lightning-struck roof,
damage done was by lightning, but reports Until next day I supposed that the only toon Teached me that the taillese Dragon hed appeared at the Weatern Suburb of Fatshan, and that a deedful scene of ruin had been the consequence of his spiral ascent. On Saturday morning I made my way there. The town of Fatshan is built on both sides of the Near the Custom and dense, but Western Suburb, called Sheung Sh unately it was here, where the houses are passed." On ench side of the river Uureach of about 500 vardy in breadth, 1 ayuaor not w bonne iv standing. naw ent to the adj ally of then non in here pr tow Juhour hood ix inhabi hyn wretched, yeubricken clave people. Phoir houses and mud hovele had hee 1 anit their little all had gol Timbers, furniture were lying i an utter wreck, Here a few charred timbers indicated that fires had broken out with the falling of roofs upon their culinary preparations, The abore of the river was strewn with broken hoatw and the river was one mass of wreck, which had accumulated against some anchored junks and thus been saved from floating away. Boats and junks were floating bottom upwards, with' hugo holes which had been purposely broken in their bottoms in order to extract the unfortunal i Tt was curious to had swept within the limits One house would be seen blown to atoms whilst its neighbour was standing and undamaged—the one taken and the other left.
Hundreds of workmen were clearing awa the debris, laughing and joking over the Such is the utter sang fraid of these that women and children were worl looking and even of their goolls they. bable min around them; others were erecting temporary sheds to cover them at night. Acrowd of cold-blooded little chaps followed me wherever I went, pointing out with evident glee the spot qhere this man and that man had been crushed to death, as if it were the jolliest thing in the world. I will not venture to give you anything but what my eyes saw. It is next to impossible to get any reliable information in s case like this most con-fioting and exaggerated reports were furnished me as to the number of houses destroyed and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.