Two Deathe and Nine Injuries Storm Passes Westward towards Chinkiang Shanghai was out of all danger from the full force of the typhoon by noon last Friday, when the black ball on the Customs Signal Station was hauled down. The centre of the storm passed 30 miles to the westward of the port carly last Friday morning, travelling at over 100 miles an hour towards Chinkiang.
Casualties in the Settlements included two deaths. Nine persons were injured. At about 8.30 p.m. en the Thursday a Japanese youth residing at 207 Woosung Road accidentally stepped on to a live cable blown down in that thoroughfare. He was immediately removed to St. Luke's Hospital, was beyond medical aid and died shortly after admission. One Chinese was killed and three others injured when a wall collapse ed through the roof of a small foundry in Thorne Road earlier in the evening. The injured persons are still in St. Luke's Hospital. Hongkew district, parts of which were for some time under water, was also the scene of a similar accident. Four coolies sheltering from the wind under a wall sustained_ serious injuries.
The French Police only reported two accidents as a result of the typhoon, At the corner of Boule-yard Montigny and Avenue Edward VII an electric wire hit a 14-year-old Chinase boy, who received a severe shock. He was removed to hospital by a foreigner, M. Dommisse, who was luckily passing in his car at the time. In Avenue Joffre some woodwork from a roof struck a Chinese passer-by.
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