Flowers, were at Takasima during the typhoon, and could not get up again till the 22nd, when a small steamer was sent for them, The captain of the Ping On, while endeavouring to close a door which had burst open, received a severe wound in the hand, by the door jamming it against the frame with great violence, A foreigner and his wife at Takasima, havin Jost their house by the gal, had towed refuge under the lee side of a friendly tree for the remainder of the night.—Tho horses belonging to Chiarini's Circus, which were in' the Costa Rica, suffered no injury. The effects of the storm on the rice crops have been most disastrous, and the price of that article is rapidly on the rise. Rumour says the damage far inland is prodigious.
At Fukahori, a village on the coast, some 12 miles below Nagasaki, the typhoon appears to have been disastrous to junks at fuchior. The proportion of houses demal ished was much greater than at Nagasaki.
Inland, the ravages committed by the storm have been immense, Mogi and Simabara were almost destroyed. It is reported that upwards of 2,000 houses were destroyed, and many lives lost. 'The unfortunate' telegraph lino also came in for its share of destruction, miles of it being reported as blown or washed down, Our correspondent at Hiroshima sends us word to the effect that the typhoon commenced there at 6 a.m. on Friday. Many hundreds of houses have been altogether or partially destroyed, and several lives have been lost, and the cotton in that neighborhood, which promised an excallont Yield, has received very, serious damage. he gale Insted about six hours, and in that short space of time more damage was done than will be repaired during the next six months, The Hiroshimaites say such a storm has not passed over their town for the last 70 years, which is the same statement as made by the natives 'As for the little coal island, 'Takasima, the extent of the damage done is something fearful to contemplate, As at Naga-aoki, large numbers of the houses were totally destroyed, whilst others, though left standing, were in w perfectly' wrecked condition, The number of lives loot there we have not been able to ascertain, but hear that a large number met with a watery grave. Nearly every junk and sampan were either swamped or broken up, and hundreds of families there deprived of the means of obtaining a livall-
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