Wenchow, Sept. 19.
Again it is a painful duty to port devastating floods in the Wenchow and Chuchow prefectures.
After a week of remarkably cool weather for the season of the year, heavy rain began to fall on Monday night, September 16, and con-\tinued throughout Tuesday and most of Tuesday night. The fall of rain was what is generally experienced in typhoon weather; but the barometer did not confirm the fears felt, only registering 20.80.
During Tuesday night, floods their work of among the towns and villages situated in the watershed of the river On. The terrible experiences of the floods three weeks ago had fortunately taught the peuple first to secure personal safety. Hence, the loss of life, this time, is comparatively smal), Spolls of the Waters.
Daylight, Wednesday morning, revealed the river in flood, and once more bearing on ite swiftly flowing waters the spoils of many towns and villages. Beams, rafters, house-tops, chairs, beds, tables, and other articles which are generally found in homes of the country Chinese, passed down in what seemed an endless stream for several hours. More gruesome sights presented themselves in the dozens of coffins which, three-quarters submerged, floated past the city of Wenchow; and now and then the corpse of some unfortunate who had been drowned in the former flood, and whose remains had been disinterred from the sands which formerly had buried him.
It was a sight to move the most callous. And yet, the people all sey it was as nothing as compared with the destruction of August 29.
The city of Ts'ingdie has again paid its toll to the waters, "The. "ity that was lost" had begun to show signs of habitation once more. New houses were being erected. Many of these have been demolish.
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