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Show TYPHOON OEAIH MIS HI TWENTY-EIQHT THOU3AND NOV AR& REPORTED TO HAVE LOST LIVE8 IN CHINESE STORM New Floures Are Furnished on Casualties Through Hongkong Chamber of Commmerce; Heap of Ruin nongkong. Typhoon-strlckoH Swa-tow, Swa-tow, a mangled nnd miserable carl-caturo carl-caturo of tho port of a wook ago, dog-gedly dog-gedly goes about tho first ghastly task that falls to tho (Survivors of tho storm burial of tho doad. Bodies of 28,000 havo boen recovered, a death toll that triples former estimates esti-mates and cuts in halt tho former population pop-ulation ot tho native city. These figures fig-ures wero given In a circular issued by the Swatow chamber ot commorco from Its branch In Hongkong. Rudo coffins havo boen hammered togethor with lumber salvagod from tho wreck ot tho city. But these cannot can-not bo knocked together fast ononfffc to dispose of bodies which aro a sanitary menace to tho health of tho living. Gnnnysacks and mattress bags havo boen mado Into crudo shrouds. Graves are hurriedly dug ln tho alluvial flats on 'which the porfwas built, that bodies may bo Interred as they are recovered re-covered from the wreckage. Shortage of food may prove another menaco. British' in Hongkong already! havo sent $10,000vf or rollef to tho British Brit-ish consul at Swatow. Illco is being hipped from-the" British colony to tho typhoon survivors. Tho Swatow Mu nlclpallty Charitable association has organized a rollof fund to which sub-, scriptlons aro being sought. Bonovo-lent Bonovo-lent soclotlcs ln Hongkong are uniting unit-ing In rellof measures for tho BUtfer-ers. BUtfer-ers. Other, cltlos ln China aro oxpoct-ed oxpoct-ed to heod the plea of stricken Swatow. Swa-tow. Bandits making grim capital of the city's disaster are reported to have raldod homes and robbed pedestrians in the natlvo section. Ghouls sought to loot tho dead but wore promptly topped by natlvo police Swatow Is a heap of ruins. Tho tltal wavo which swept tho road along tho harbor whllo tho storm was at Its height comploted the devastation which tho storm starred. Water front buildings, crumplod bofqro tho assault ot tho water, Ho in tanglod nondescript nondes-cript pllos. Throo steamers caught ln tho storm woro piled on tho benach. Smaller craft, demolished when thoy sought shelter ln Swatow harbor, added add-ed to tho tamrlo on tho wator front that swirls with tho ttdo. |