Some Records of an Unusually Destructive Summer Ursuline Convent were blown away. In the case of the convent the Mother Superior and the nuns had an almost miraculous escape from death. A tidal wave swamped the Bund, and the native city was reduced -to a heap of wreckage.
During the months of August'
When the wave broke with full and September of this year the force on the shore, pontoons, junks coasts of Central and North China, and cargo boats were lifted bodily as well as Japan, have been cross-' over the bunding, many of them ed by an unusually large number of! striking the frontal buildings. The typhoons of abnormal land force, ruin was absolutely amazing, and and though Shanghai has escaped nearly all buildings were rendered with comparatively slight dam-roofless. Fortunately, all the forage, terrific havoc has been wrought eign population were eventually at such places as Swatow, Wen-found to be safe, but the loss of chow and Taichow, while Chin-life amongst the Chinese was enor-kiang and Mokanshan have also mous, and no fewer than 28,000 suffered severely from the effects dead' bodies were afterwards re-of the gales. It has been an unusual season for typhoons, "covered.
In the surrounding districts, out justifying to some extent the of more than 100 churches, chapels belief of the Chinese in the ill-luck and missionary residences, 12 were of the intercalary moon year, destroyed and the others more or though a few foreigners of long less damaged. At Gouason, out residence in China express the of 20,000 inhabitants, only half sur-opinion that there has of late been vived, and at Haiki three Catholic a complete change in the type of families were the only survivors summers, as compared with a score of years ago, the monsoon from a population of 3,000. being now almost invariably
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