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Show SIX HUNDRED PEOPLE PERISHED IN STORM. Result of Terrible Typhoon nnd Tidal Wave Which Swept South Sea Islands. Tho steamer Mariposa has arrived at San Francisco from Australia, bringing additional nows of tho typhoon and tidal wavo at tho Pearl Island group In tho middle of January. Tho Fronch government has Investigated tho disaster disas-ter nnd found that between 500 and 600 Islanders pcrlshod during tho storm. After tho wind had subsided and tho waters had receded, hundreds of drowned natives wero found tied to tno trees about tho places. Hlkucra, ono of tho Islands visited by tho deluge, was tho best ablo to withstand its force, as its highest place s twolvo feet abovo tho ocean. Tho residents flocked to tho heights and sought safety by binding themselves them-selves to tho rocks and trees. Thore jhey remained for thrco or four days In which tho storm Bwept over tho dreadful scone. Four hundred lives wero lost there. Tho Islands of Hao, Morakau and Hlkucra aro virtually washed away, as thoy aro nt present Jlttlo abovo tho sea level nnd nro destitute des-titute of vegctntlon. On them man can not subsist, as tho soil has vanished nnd tho cocoanut trees aro dried up and dead. On tho Island of Rarorla tho devastation devasta-tion Is complete Three-fourths of tho cocoanut trees wero destroyed, houses wore cast down, tho walls of tho Catholic Cath-olic church nnd tho prison woro swept away, nnd twolvo of tho Inhabitants wero killed. At Amanu thoro wero three --rsons killed by tho cyclone. An jg tho survivors of tho nwful storm nro Hldors Chofflold and Allen and Mr. nnd Mrs. Gilbert of tho Latter-day Latter-day Saints mission. |