| Show I 1 TERRIFIC TYPHOON IN CHINA tue tha following particulars of 0 the terrific ty 1 I 1 phoon which visited some odthe of the principal c cities iti ieso lebo of f ch china na in july last list referred to some time since was waa taken from the hona hoag kong trade report of aug loth A typhoon of unprecedented violence swept over hong kond kong maca alacan canton and khym pea on sunday july 1862 committing dreadful ravages on property and being the 1 cause of the death of no less than 40 lives the centre passed over canton and khampoa Wham poa macao did not have it quite BO so strong and hong hont I 1 kong escaped witti a stiff gie gle which simply caused a few ships in the harbor to foul one another tbt too most peculiar feature in this terrific scourge cc is the short time it lasted and the extraordinary afe tra ordinary I 1 ary high tide eight feet higher than usual mr max Wen wenzler zier of the firm of cournau Cour jau hubener co was drowned by the ca capsizing sizing of hib hia boat in the harbor two wo othe other house boats capsized aad and lost crews saved several houses belonging to the chinese fell down dowa causing the death of many of the inmates hong kong may be considered aa as having come offwell off wel well casualties IN MACAO whole fleets of west coast boats are lost in t the he inner harbor of macao alne al ne one hundred oil sugar bucar and other boats have been lost oat the fast boats on their passage from hong kong to alagao were lost one of them with sixty souls on board the grande grandb is completely destroyed and the damage done to houses bouses gardens verandahs verandas veran dahs ac j cold considerable the american ship comet was at anchor in the outer roads laden with a cargo for new kew york the glass stood aa as follows on board the mer ter touched 27 deg ag bec sec the most sensitive marine barometer 27 d deg g 70 sec the lower marine barometer 29 99 deg we hear lear that another captain in the roads reports bib bis marine marinv barometer as low as 28 de deg dag 40 sec the loss of life in the inner harbor alone was seven hundred casualties IN ix new town and bamboo town toft two villages forming part and parcel of khampoa Wham poa are one n ais a is ct cf rains hardly a native house is branding the custom honse bonse chop was capsized with nine tile lide waiters europeans in her four of wom wm were drowned the tue bethel was s smashed abbed to pieces nearly all the chops went on onshore shore shote atter aeter the gale was over no sam pans could be seen and laborers were not to b be e had bad the loss of life in khampoa la is estimated mated d at t six thousand casualties IN rit cantow CANTOS CANiO camio IV with few exceptions the river was clean swept of all its flower boats bong boata boats and every every other kind of boat houses fell and ani killed people by the hundred large junks broke adrift and came thundering up the river doing much damage to the shameem site and the houses along the shore it is esti erti estimated mated that forty thousand lives have been lost in canton and its ita vicinity the blan Alan mandarins darins darini are giving givin 1 for every body found have already already been spent the rev ev mr gailliard was killed by a wall of his house falling on him the ruin caused by this typhoon ia is wide spread in canton it came on to blow at am im the class standing at 2968 and wind from N fi 9 the wind veered to SE at 11 a m it was a dead calm at noon and the sun shining and thon than blew farious furiously ly from S and SW past pasi basaing king sing away at that point lowest pitch of barometer 29 17 the imperial fleet of war vessels numbering sixty with an immense fl tila wis of covered bo so diera boats P ere are re all dis persed sed bed and their wrecks line the shore ten merchant marchant junks remain at their old anchorage iwer Ipei the barj aks had just been reviewed and were upon the point of being dis eis patched dispatched for the north covered with paint and an decked with fla fia flags a but with very few effective guns puns the ga gate F e wa wab was 9 very se severely beverely arely felt in the new suburbs das has where he fhe town hab has not yet been entirely rebuilt detached houses of great depth went down as if they were built of cards in one of these near the ilia five genii gate one hundred and sixty refugees from the river ac had effected a lodging 0 when they were overwhelmed in its ruins the old chinese bolt boat keople say that within their recollection there has not been so heavy a typhoon nor so high a tide it is ruin ruih for a po populous 1 IOUs lous place like canton to be in the centre macao I 1 acao was in the centre in the typhoon of july 1841 and the strength of this one was very ery cry simi ar to the macagone macao one as also in its ita phenomenon as regards the way in which the wind veered round from NE at 9 am and SW SAV at 3 pm |
