| Show THOUSAND LIVES LOST IN TYPHOON Calamity on Asiatic Coast Is Much Greater Than at First Reported BUSINESS AT STANDSTILL Property Lo To Toe Will li i Run Ilium nUl Into Millions Mil 1 lions til 1 Damage ll t to it p s n as asWell Well 1 n ns its Shipping Hong ong Kong Kong- Sept Earlier 20 Earlier reports re reports reports re- re ports of or f the 10 loss R of oC life Ifo resulting from the visit of ot t the tho typhoon Tuesday Tues have been blon under rather than titan I o er over cd ed antI and It I Is 19 now reported the number ff of It dead will wi exceed one thousand T By fly far the greatest number of casualties has occurred among the natives but hut a afE afew afew few fE were killed and man many Injured The They were on ones es vessels vessel el lying In iii the harbor when the catastrophic catastrophe occurred Bodies are being constantly constantI constant constant- ly I wa washed ii ashore and ashore and searching parties par liar tO ties los are picking up ull corpses up and amid down the coast and preparing them Item for or burial The TIl total number of or dead deall will ivill wi never be known as man many unknown vessels went down lawn unnoticed all al of their crews being nJ drowned While the lie worl of relief Is steadily going on out It will wi be many man days slays before normal conditions again prevail pre all Business Busi Busl- leR ness Is 19 still tJ at nl a stan Starl standstill Xo Xu Americans I Hurt hart So far ar as aJ can be ascertained tho the only American vessel damaged was the S. S P. P Hitchcock which was vats driven n ashore No 0 American i is reported hu hurl t The loss loR lo to shipping and the damage damn dam amage am- am age to vessels c el generally was enormous Th The steamships Monteagle leng han ring VIng Chal Chai Cas- Cas Tak fling BinG I Emma rma Luyken San Rosarlo Slim Pal hong Chum let Sax a Sutton Sulon hang Chang Sha Signal and timid Maru were driven 1 ashore as us were also the lie British Ve- Ve ie- ie reserve serve sloop Phoenix mul tl gunboat Dongola und and the French boat d destroyer 1 est ro el Fra C Uc Thc st Kwong Chow Chose San Sun and Amid were sunk as r British torpedo boat destroyer Sir ViI tir l Wil William liam Ham Jervais Xo No 0 estimate bt smaller maller craft antI and Ju Junks If lost st I Iii U time b storm t rm ca cap can 1 l o hud I. I i Ja t Jh 11 I n 1 Ji hi 1 boat destroyers destroyer torpedo thir lt h Moorhen l and Taku riku aku The properly rOberty erty loss los will I run ruts Into the tho I millions millions' B Besides the loss 1088 to shipping shipping- Incalculable a was u-as ca caused J ed t to tp buildings In lit the elt city Not oL much progress was made In InI a vay the wreckage j ls I piled u he alCH along the water I froit D l e T authorities and relief relict committees arc are devoting all an of their ther lute lime to aiding the lh sufferers lS l'S and an sup- sup the lie needs o of the hom homeless o One 1 l' l s Ml 1 11 Reports of or fresh disasters are beIng being be be- ing lug hourly received CI The police ida sta- st- st ions HonK are aio besieged with wih Chinese who ire arc U to identify lh the doad It I I iw Is e estimated that O over OI I 1000 Jun Junks ire iro missing an and arc are believed to have ha been heen lo host t during the storm It I Is the bishop of Victoria was vas among those drowned drowne of sympathy were Mau Many Maimy mee messages iges ot received today toda among amon them one from fromI corn I I King Edward of ot England |
