Wusih, July 13.
The worst typhoon in the writer's 33 years of residency visited Wusth yesterday, beginning about noon, and Fapidly reaching its climax in the late afternoon. The electric light service was soon out of commission, owing to Blown down wires, and the city is still without electricity.
The small private compound of the Superintendent-of St. Andrew's would seem to have been in the exact path fof the storm, as eight large trees were completely uprooted and and blown over, half of a small bamboo grove was laid fat, and considerable damage in the way of torn off gutters was done. The other {wo compounds of the American Church Mission suffered comparatively little damage, and the Baptist Mission outside the tity, to the north is reported to have sustained only the loss of some fences, while no news has come in of the Methodist "compound outside the South Gate, but had the damage there been serious one would have heard The local newspaper has not yet been delivered, several hours past its time, owing probably to the absence of electricity.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.