Sulsien, Sept, 12.
Thie aistret was visited by one of the most severe typhoons Ju ite his Gall one of similar violence, more tory In August. The older people 36
than 20 yenrs ago, While no accurate ligurer ate available, Is safe to say} {iat thousands of houses were dam-ged or totally wrecked. Mud" wels SUttored most severely, many of thes crumbled down. Long "stretches of the outer wall of "the city, built of and, collapsed. "The hurricane drove ihe vain through solid" brick walls, bringing down some of them. Walls which had been shaken and weakened the bombing o€ May 19. felt in the Mtany people were crushed beneath falling" houses, "Many were" killed upright, while alners were severely injured." Some of the victims came {o the mission hospital at Sulsien, Sno woman had her lett arm and Fight log broken.
Cargo numbers of trees were uprooted by the sorm- In. most cases, the trees went down gradually, as the rain softened the earth about their Toots, "Foreign locust. trees. suffered more. than other varieties, because they have no tap roots, 'Their Toots spread out ear' the surface of the carthy Uke the ribs of a umbrella.
"The country was badly flooded by the heavy rain, which amounted 10 several inches, Fields were covered, Foods were washed out the water in the old bea of the Yellow River was higher than it hasbeen in recent years,
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