Hongkong, Aug. 20.
Hardly a house in the Peak district escaped damage by the typhoon. The untenanted military sanatorium was badly wrecked. The Mount Gough police-station narrowly escaped complete destruction. The roof of the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank junior mess has fallen in and damaged two floors. A corner of a room of the Chief Justice's house was blown away. The roof of the Victoria Hospital was seriously damaged. The wall surrounding the maternity ward of the Matilda Hospital was blown down, and the massive iron gateways wrenched from their pillars.
The Peak 4 Hotel was severely buffeted. Mr. W. Sinclair's re-built house was completely unroofed.
The American tramp steamer Josefina, with Spanish officers and a Filipino crew, from Manila to Nagasaki, put into Hongkong on Sunday. She had been badly buffeted by the, typhoon. The bridge wag partially wrecked, the compass smashed, the deck-house washed overboard, the railings twisted, the companionway carried away, the cabin-doors smashed, the ports broken, all moveable carried away, the officers' quarters wrecked, and the rudder lost. The steamer presents a pitiable spectacle.
Later.
H.M.S. Bluebell narrowly escaped collision with the drifting Sekino Maru, Ginyo Maru and Loongsang during the typhoon. She had to be kept going at half-speed all the time in order that she might not break away through her cables snapping, og even by steaming seven knots she was only just able to keep the strain off the cables. The Bluebell lost her wireless aerials through her topmast breaking away. The boats on either side of her were smashed in.
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