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Show CHINA TYPHOON E IS WORST EVER Exact Loss of Lives and i Property Will Never Be Known SWATOW, China. August 1 ! Correspondence of the Associated Press ) The typhoon whkh sti-m k Swntow and the surrounding region Ion August 3 resulting in the loss of more than 60,000 lives, without doubt Is the worst of Its kind on record n China. T i" oldeft people In the oni-munlty oni-munlty erri..re It only HKv I n 'typhoon of 18C9. but insist t il I V. e I devastation wrought In the recent dls-I dls-I aster Is many times greater than that ' of 5 3 years ago. I The most venerable seamen describe It as the worst typhoon in the lils-tory lils-tory of trade along tho China coast. The exact amount of damage probably prob-ably will never be known, but estimates esti-mates run to many millions of dol- I lara. EWTTMATES VNOERT I N Cnstoms officials also plaec ' their loss of property und lighthouses at a probable million. Likewise dozens of i other business firms might be men-jtlcned men-jtlcned whose loss runs to many thousands thous-ands of dollars. In addition there scarcely in a house In ih- entire Ity that has escape. s.onir '1 m :i-s. S' or.-s of them were total wrecks. Death tolls are In exceas of thf I estimates. The most accurate figures show that between three and four ; thousand bodies have bsen burled in jSwatOW alone. ThU does not account I for the possible hundrods swept out I to sea. Out among th' hundreds of Villages, feme small and somo large, I covering an area of about TG square miles, the death toll Is much greater in proportion to population. Many Villages are totally wiped out According Accord-ing to the most conservative estimates the total of dead Is 60,000. The other I estimates place the figure as high aa 1 100,000. FOREIGNERS ESt APE. On of the moat miraculous features of the death toll Is that no foreigner Is ff-rtously hurt. There ure many storks, both amusing und eoCcitinSj of narrow escapee, which somo attribute I to Dlvlno Providence and others i asr.rlbo to heer good luck Official records give the flood water I level as nine feet above hluh w.-uer mark. All thin took place at the lime 'when It should havo bocn low tide However, this nine feci la only tho I average mean. th top Crest of the I waves reaching In places lo and 20 , feet In the city. WATER THROWN INLAND A greater part of the damage done I was caused bv thl so-called tidal wave I which in realltv was not a tidal wavo Instead it should be called a "ty-I "ty-I phoon wave." as this high water was i merely lifted within a partial vacuum lor typhoon pocket of low pressure and ' when this typhoon pockek reached the j shore the water was carried for miles Inland, carrying havoc and devasta- I 1 1 r, n with It. ' lp account of this devastation many are suffering for food. However, relief work has speedily begun on a well organized basis, and it Is thought the situation will soon be wll In hand. |