Show THOUSANDS LOSE LIVES IN STORM Two Small Islands are Virtually Swept clean by a Death Dealing Typhoon Loss of Lives Among Natives Simply Apalllng the Total Number Kllled Being Reported as Nearly Ten Thousand I i Victoria B Crhe steamer Tar ar which arrived Sunday from the Orient brought news from Shanghai that the loss of life among natives of ho Islands at the mouth of tho Yangtze Yang-tze river as a result of the typhoon at the beginning of September was tremendous The Nortn China Dally News of Shanghai l says To the east of Tamagmlng two Islands Isl-ands one called Yawoshwa the other Shlhiousha distant about twenty miles from Woosung have Buffered much from the typhoon nearly all the Inhabitants having been swept aWRY The Islands haye only been Inhabited Inhab-ited for a short time comparatively speaking as they are of recent formation forma-tion and are not very much above high water mark It Is reported that nearly ten thousand people have been drowned on these two Islands and the smaller Islands adjacent Tamagm Ing Itself has not suffered much being well above the high water mark The Shanghai paper says that the damage to the Canadian Pacific railway rail-way liner Empress of Japan by the typhoon will necessitate the expenditure expendi-ture of 100OUO for repairs During the storm the steamer Pechlll exRio do Grande du Sol foundered near the mouth of the Yangtze Her crew ot fiftyfour were saved by the German Ueamer Albenga whose officers and crew did heroic work but one Chinese Chi-nese was drowned I |