The typhoon which just missed Shanghai has taken a terrible fall at Mokanshan, both in death and damage to property and the popular holiday resort must now be in a dreadful state. A few particulars: are available through a letter received by Mr. J. J. Evans from his father and brought down by a gentleman who, the letter stated, proposed getting down as best he could to Wukong, taking a boat from there and. afterwards travelling by whatever means was possible, the mountain being cut off from all the ordinary routes. Ho managed to get through somehow, for the letter was posted in Shanghai.
Mr. Evans's letter is dated last Saturday. He said that they had experienced a constant storm since the previous Monday and it blew terribly until the Friday, with heavy rains constantly night and day. That morning he got the first news as to what had been going on with other people, for it had been impossible to venture out before.
The first tragedy was the death of Mrs. James Ware. She had been unwell and died of heart failure during the storm. The house had. been rendered absolutely unfit to live in, but somehow arrangements were made for the funeral.
Still worse happened on Friday About 4 or 5 p.m, there was landslide from below the Methodist Episcopal Ladies' Home _which carried away everything in its path until reaching the bathing pool. At that time several people had ventured into the pool and on to these there was swept the jadies' dressing room and a number of uprooted trees. Many were injured, whilst Mr. King, of the C.M.S., Shaoshing, who was in the deeper part, had_ his head crushed in and was killed instant ly. The body was swept away and was recovered later some distance down the hill. His wife was in the shallow end sustained and minor injury.
There were also two boys in_the pool, one being the son of the Rev.
W.. Wilson. They were overwhelmed by a mass of trees, but were able to crawl out without any serious injury.
Mr. Evans says the roa that the roads are so washed out that it is impossible to get past Yuen Tah's. The old house wall has fallen into the roadway and rendered it impassable. The plain is five feet under water and no mail can get through, nor can chairs go either up or down the hill.
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