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Show I TYPHUON DEATH I TOLLmJNS Hi Si TWCNTY-EIGHT THOU8AND NOW ARE REPORTED TO HAVE LOST JHj LIVES IN CHINESE 8TORM 1( New Figures Are Furnished on Ij Casualties Throuoh Hongkong ' Chamber of Commmerce; I Heap of Ruin I Hongkong. Typhoon-stricken Swa-2fr Swa-2fr .ov, a mangled and mlsorablo carl rJT'J catuio of tho port of a wook ago, dog- Br6" godly boos about tho first ghastly W task that falls to tho survivors of tho f storm burial of tho dead. Mj Ilodlcs of 28,000 havo boon recovered, a death toll that triples formor ostl-H ostl-H mates and cuts In half tho former pop- illation of tho natlvo city. Those fig-H fig-H tires wero given In a circular issued by H tho Swatow chamber of commerce H from its branch in Hongkong. H Kudo coffins havo boon hammered H together with ltimbor salvaged frcm H tho wreck of tho city. Hut theso can- not bo knocked togother fast enough to dispose of bodies which aro a sanitary monaco to tho health of tho living. I Ounnysacks and mattress bags havo, been tnado into crudo shrouds. Graves aro hurriedly dug in tho alluvial flats on which tho port was built, that I bodies may bo interred as thoy are recovered re-covered from tho wreckage. Shortage of food may provo another menace. British In Hongkong already have flont $10,000 for roliof to the British Brit-ish consul at Swatow. Rico is being shipped from tho British colony to tho typhoon survivors. Tho Swatow Municipality Mu-nicipality Charltablo association has organized a roliof fund to which subscriptions sub-scriptions aro being sought. Benevolent Benevo-lent societies in Hongkong aro uniting unit-ing in rollef measures for the suffer-era. suffer-era. Other citlos in China aro expected expect-ed to heed tho plea of stricken Swatow. Swa-tow. Bandits making grim capital of tho city's disaster are reported to havo raided homes and robbed pedestrians In tho natlvo section. Ghouls sought to loot tho dead but wero promptly stopped by natlvo police. Swatow Is a heap of ruins. Tho tltal wave which swept tho road along , tho harbor while tho storm was at ' Its height completed tho devastation which tho storm starred. Water front buildings, crumpled betoro tho assault of tho water, Ho in tangled nondescript nondes-cript piles. Threo steamers caught in tho storm wero piled on tho bonach. Smaller craft, demolished when thoy I sought shelter la Swatow harbor, added add-ed to tho tangle on tho water front I that swirls with tho tido. |