One of the freak accidents observed on The Bund during the morning was the tearing to shreds of the top of a'sedan car parked near the foot of hankow Road. The top was lifted by strong gust of wind and gradually the various layers were blown to bits, Jeaving a. permanent and complete jun Foot." No-one was in the ear at the time, and no-one was injured {in the course of the destruction. A lorry in Avenue Edward suffered a similar accident.
Another accident which almost deserves the title of "freak" occurred to the aerial mast of radio station XMHD, over which the daily news bulletins of the "North-China Daily jews" are broadcast. Early yester~ day morning. the serial itself was blown into disuse, and the wind then turned its attention to the towering, metal mast, Literally before the eyes of observers, it bent the top part of the mast outwards and downwards, 30. that the mast now looks like a exaggerated pair of dividers, Another Fadio. station" to. suffer from the storm was XMHA, which did not transmit for over an hour during the Tuneh period, owing to the fact. that the transmission line to the antenna had blown down.
"A. curious sight on Nanking ana other roads converging on the Bund wes that of masses of green leaves, blown far from the trees along the foreshore and whipping into the faces of pedestrians and rickshaw pullers fu 'a most unaccustomed manner.
Moler and passenger transport trafic was normal yesterday; despite the and wind, drenched trafic con: ables in their litle towers continued to operate the lights all day.
With roofs and fences and things being blown about and all over the place the whole day long, no careful survey of the havoc wrought by the winds could be made yesterday, especially as Siccawei Observatory continued to report the approach of the storm centre. All over the out lying districts of Shanghai and the [suburbs in the Western District, fences were awry or blown com-. pletely down. In one or two cases the Hungjao' district, motorists were unable to use their cars, for their matshed or wattle garages had blown down onto the vehicles. ts Blown Down, number of straw huts were blown over, and their unfortunate occupants were seen doing their best to erect some sort of tem-
Porary shelter from the wind and rain, In several apparently modern shops in the Native City, not only were windows broken, but in four Jor five instances the complete frames, windows and all, were blown completely in. 'Torn' and battered shop Signs and bill boards were. noted everywhere.
Straw hut colonies in Chapel, Pootung and Woosung perhaps suffered the most, Over ten of these Jeolonies in Chapel reported the <estruction of these abodes by the strony wind, but the damage was not extensive. In Woosung, several places were flooded.
Tan Tse Wan district, Chapel, Chinese pedestrian was struck by 8 falling brick in the morning, when signboard was torn off the wall. The man escaped serious injuries, Excitement reigned in the Boat house of the Shanghai Rowing Club, Soochow Road, during the noon hour, when the two pontoons started to break up and drift away. One of these pontoons was only recently brought down from Henti as a safety first" precaution in view of the hostilities "in. the North, One Pontoon was almost completely ruin~ fed by night fall: both were removed from their anchorage and lashed firmly to the side of the Boathouse, Flag Torn to Shreds Flying bravely in the typhoon wind, one of the few fags visible in /Shanghal, the Union Jack over #.M. was whipping itself slow to shreds yesterday. No flag was raised ever the Soviet Consulate all day. The Nazi emblem was one which braved the storm.
'A huge plate glass window in the front of the Broadway Mansions blew out with a crash yesterday morning. 'A considerable amount of other breakage on a more minor scale was reported in the big building.
From early morning until tate Jaflernoon the gardeners of the Bund Gardens were busy. With waves lashing over the bunding, two coolies Jearly in the day underwent a soak. jing removing. the benches to safer ground. Others were busy all day. Propping up trees, as a result of which only a couple blew down, Still others removed the glass. light fixtures from the standards.
Rickshaw Casualties Rickshaw casualties were unusually heavy at the Broadway Mansions Jcomer, for hours being quite unable to round it into Broadway. Most were blown over, coolie and all, and often hapless passengers with them. One, bald-headed and clutching a large watermelon, appeared stunned, and the melon escaped, only to be Fecaptured after a merry chase by spectators, who were cheerily helping j of loose. tiles from th force until heavy rains drove them indoors.
Even double Jashings and anchors tolled to ease the precarious situation lof the scores of sampans tied up to the North Soochow Road jetty next to the Garden Bridge; and all through we nights and one day the crews were busy fending off other sampans and making sure of their moorings. One was a casualty, sinking next the bridge. The efforts of one of the crew to salve the few pitiful belong ings of the family on board attracted a huge crowd for an hour or more.
Sikh Chases Tea Urn An carly casualty next to the Garden Bridge was the tea urn for the rickshaw. coolies. Overturned and Fighted, a number of times, ite stand tied to' tree, the urn itself, ina Wwhimsical_moment, escaped and led large Sikh traM™e policeman a dance down the road before it was recaptured and placed in a nelghbouring shop for safety, ow indeed were the small craft which ventured on the bosom of the }wind-lashed Whangpoo yesterday. }One of the most persistent; however was a small Chinese Tauneh with three large sampans in tow. AN day, from early morning until tate at night, this convoy attempted to steam down river past Pootung Point. Each time at the point it was held stationary by the wind, finally to give and return, "No Jet-up. in the effort appeared up to darkness, Floating Bed To the amazement.of spectators an apparently iron bedstead floated Soochow Creek yesterday morning when it fell from a sampan,. The sampan, loaded with @ full. house hold of furniture, rocked so violently that half of its cargo went overboard, Among this lot was the bedstead, which turned out to be wood, for it Moated merrily unfit salvaged with the rest of the soaked cargo, 'The rickshaw walting shed a Gar~ den Bridge was stripped of its composition tile roofing, bits of the shingly material flying all over the neigh Dourhood all' day.
Men Electrocuted One fatality occurred yesterday morning, "at "Soochow ind Fokien Roads, where a Chinese was struck and. electrocuted "by. high-tension wires ruptured by the typhoon, The tan' was. taken" to Laster" Chinese Hospital in a Fire. Brigade ambule ance, ut he' was dead. on. arriv His body' was removed to the Public Morgue in Pearon. Road A fatal case was reported at Kiaochangmiao, Nantao, of about 10-an when a pedestrian was electrocuted bya five wire torn dow from. an electric pote, The man was about 40 years of age and. wore a becket and Hanis of White cloth, but. no. thoes 'The seeldent occurred at Shan 'Link Yuan 'Street, "Chinese Police' were stationed in' the vielnty" to warn pedestrians against approaching, the Place. unfit after repatre had been 'A number of Chineto were injured throughout the day, several. being hit by falling slanboarda by bricks tes, or by. shattered window Panes scat ple wae ser of the morning when his vehlefo was ously injured during the early part
overturned on The Bund, and Inter {nthe day several other pullers and thei passengers" were bruised. est Seriously' in spills at various points, Gihers, "again, were injured fu. ae= sidents involving. pedestrians, trams fand motor-ears, and tram and shaw." Some were. thrown to. the Pavement while walking or attempt: Ing to walla, Beginning already at 020 am, the emergency ambulances "and rescue Vans ofthe "Piro. Brigade. clanged Their Way" through the incrashed slreeig" responding to calls received {rom Yanglszepoo, Hongkew, Central Sinza and Bubbling. Well isriets—the enrive Seltioment. The. other Shanghai areas. suw similar netvity. reign Premises Damaged Among the premises damaged wore these of the Ascot Riding. School, Tupsin Road, where the stable roof was (om off; 100 Peking Road, where the corrugated Iron root had to be made safe; the Astor House Hotel, where a chimney fell through the roof during the tiffin hour; -Kwenming and Thorburn Roads, where matshed was blown onto some elocfrie cables; and Foochow and Szechuen Roads, where a dividing wal was demolished, Large plate-glass Windows crashed at several Bubbling Well Road shops. Countless fragmen{s and in Bubbling Well Road, west of Mohawk Road, gigantic representation of a Yang: tze Gorges steamer all but eapsized, At Peking and Szechuen Roads, corrugated iron sheets were blown into the street at 220 pin, butt luckily missed passdrsby. A call received from the Foreign Y.M.C.A., Bubbling Well Road, resulted in the removal Foot before all and sundry victims of the wind's serious damage was caused, Portions
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