Widespread Damage on Land and Sea: s. Sunning Aground, Feared Breaking Up Hongkong, Aug. 17.
IVEN hard aground at Rennet's Mill, in Junk Bay, by a severe!
typhoon which lashed Hongkong during the night and this morning, Messrs, Butterfield and Swire's s. Sunning is reported to be breaking up.
The crew of Chinese seamen and British officers, as well as the 40 passengers aboard the Sunning, however, were saved from practically certain death by the British military authorities and water police.
At 5 o'clock this afternoon the typhoon had abated. All signals were down and the harbour resumed its normal appear-Considerable havoc, however, was wrought by the typhoon, a large number of dwellings being wrecked, trees uprooted and a number of junks sunk. The death-roll ashore is believed to be in the neighbourhood of twenty, but it is impossible to estimate! the casualties afloat, It was the first time in years that the Colony felt the full force: of a typhoon. A final warning signal was hoisted at i230 am, and a quarter of an hour later' maroons heralded the arrival of the storm.
Most of the shipping in the harbour fled anchor and proceeded to Junk Bay, where they rode out the storm, while the majority of the smaller craft, having received ample warning the afternoon, were safe in typhoon shelters, 'The storm was still raging early this morning, and Reuter's correspondent, making & tour of the city, wit nessed scenes of desolation everywhere, Among the sights were two corpses battered by falling debris, 'Ambulances were busy', conveying the injured to hospital, and the streets were strewn with wreckage of every. Seseription, Tiles, masonry. Iron sheeting and fallen trees covered the highways, blocking all trame In some Earller in the day, 100 Chinese were reported to have been buried alive in the Stanley district of Hong kong as the result of " landslide caused by the typhoon and rains. Later, however, it was revealed that the majority of those trapped by the Jandalide had been rescued and that only. three Chinese had. been' killed fand three seriously injured,
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