Streets Flooded: Pontoons in Bad Case: Much Damage to Minor Shipping A correspondent sends us details of damage wrought at Chinkiang by the typhoon, which, missing Shanghai a few days ago, travelled inland. It seems to have swept Chinkiang on Tuesday and created no small amount of damage. For some considerable time, heavy rains poured down in a regular deluge and the streets from the Bund backwards were flooded. At one time they were under two feet of water. Telegraph poles were blown down, Chinese dwellings seem to have subsided under the force of the storm, and the damage was considerable. Foreign buildings appear to. have weathered the typhoon successfully, but all else suffered severely.
Tuesday, while daylight lasted, found the typhoon raging with full force, but fortunately towards evening the wind abated. Next day some estimate of the damage could be made. Apart from the Chinese dwellings to which reference has already been made,-the principal damage seems to have been on the waterfront.
The Municipal Jetty has been very nearly demolished, the pontoon bridges being washed away. Several of the mooring chains of other hulks parted and, as a result, the steamers of a number of the shipping companies calling at the port have had to anchor in the stream. The pontoons of the China Merchants S.N. Ca. appear tu have suffered considerably, two of the connecting ones having been sunk: The roof of the Hoong On Steamship Co.'s hulk was lifted almost bodily off, whilst the upper structure was virtually telescoped by the violence of the wind. The hulk owned by the Hoong Foo Coal Ca. was sunk.
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