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Show TYPHOON CLAIMS MANY VICTIMS Torrential Rains, High Tides and Floods Cause Enormous Loss of Life. Shanghai Immense loss of life Is .rported In mall advices Junt received from Wen Chow, in the prevlnce of Chcklang. Chinese estimates give the death roll between 30.000 and 40.0M) as the result of a typhoon combined with torrential rains and high tides which occurred August 29. Ureal floods followed and the upper Wen Chow river overflowed a vast area. The town of Tsm Tien, forty miles northwest or Wen Chow, was overwhelmed and W,00 of the Inhabitants Inhab-itants were drowned. Various other towns and villages were destroyed and the prcfectural church, an important import-ant missionary station, was washed away. |