| Show ORIENTAL NEWS tile the japan gazette of june says ys intelligence has been received at hong kong from claying chau prefecture in the northeast of wang tung that early on the In morning orning of the 2nd and aust the chau ping S and ping yuen districts were flooded coded by the bursting of a water spout pout or a tornado described by the chinese as a water dragon and the level vel country flooded with three nearly thirty six feet of nater ater the villages of chae kon and ha kuhui ku hui in the ping yuen district strict and cheong tan hop lui legai gai ru ku sam chan klu kin and san pa o hui hubin in the chan ping district were ere overflowed many houses being wholly holly swept away while others were inundated undated upwards of lives were lost many of the unhappy aple bei being n g ca carried r i away by the orce of the ne flood aud and others d row aed it ini a their houses large numbers of im ive stock soc were also e engulfed n gu difed and a an u amount of property was destroyed p the adjoining villages of shek CT chat tsung yuen and yew tong th ag ia yg ing chau chan and fung sz in r henne hong district of ting ati fucien were likewise g nur numerous nerous houses demolished arid a several hundred lives lost over 10 0 O persons survivors of the dis have been rendered homeless and ft destitute ti tute the local authorities aft cooing doing their best to relieve the degUt ya tite but the task is a difficult one the ta distress being so great and son als have been sent down to S rong kong and canton to endeavor procure assistance th he phinese chinea times translates trans latos from aih pao account ao the following of oath the tornado 0 o which visited the the th oun y between New chwang and great wall on june 2nd and A of peat att storm passed ching chou one on the western tern districts of Feng tien fifth the arth day of the chinese month when the storm was sounds boerr up people heard fearful tiered la 18 an d thought that it imthun thun I 1 sst after a little while they with aa 9 sound bound of moaning mingled ath that of people calling for help ud lad that B of 0 falling g houses bouses other oth all kinds ads of furniture and ft kites abi r flying in the air like to the he storm lasted from noon e ON bert or evenin 9 when the storm was hon th 1 found that a great many aim 4 seo and an cottages had been blown hown hodg 0 and 11 the roofs of some strong beena and a great many trees had bes ft blown away many boats had the pt and sunk and some of ah ote sl bliler ta Iler ones lifted upon the Z not it ia IF said that tha auch tsuch a storm 4 6 been seen for scores of we hear from kai feng fu says the chinese times that the cheng chou breach of the yellow river biver stands well but that the lake to the south of it formed by the eddying waters which have scoured out a vast excavation nearly fifty feet deep is regarded with anxiety as it has a tendency to undermine the new embankment after a time the laborers that were employed chou are now nearly dispersed the new dyke at chung chou made to close the breach there according to the drawings and photographs now here is a cyclopean work never surpassed in this empire and the technical details will certainly excite great interest among the engineers of europe the work is a mile and a third in length and the average width is about feet at one time men were employed in numerous and fairly organized gangs and for a while all the combined efforts seemed to be futile for as ae fast as the bags of earth and sand fa stones timber and other materials were thrown down they were swept away by the irresistible rush of the flood waters but step by step by dint of patience and much practical skill the bench was narrowed gradually in fact inch by inch until when the waters were at about their lowest the remaining gap was stopped certainly the work is of an astounding character and li I 1 hung tsao and ta cheng both rendered very eminent services to the empire wu ta chenes estimate at the cost of closing the breach in the huang ho is |
