Wrecks and Floods in China

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 391, 14 December 1889, Page 2

Wrecks and Floods in China

GREAT LOSS OF LIFE,

Tux typhoon season in the China Sea, says the Sydney Morning Herald of December 14, war a pretty heavy one thle year. Captain Ellie's steamer Airlie (E. and A. line); was fortunate, however, in being clear of the worst weather. Tbe Airlie .arrived here yesterday. She met with some pretty (revere weather coming down, and when she left Hongkong the Government Astronomer was predicting yet another typhoon, One or two wrecks ha< occurred, that of tbe German barque Oscar Meyer, near Shangai. Tbe rudder was smashed during the height of the typhoon, and during the night the vessel was driven on a reel. The crew escaped. One ot the fine steamers of the Messageries Maritimes China liue of mail steamers, the Natal, got into the track of a tornado, and had her decks swept; she however reached Singapore, and had to be docked. Cheefqo the Merlin narrowly escaped being sunk by an immense junk which was driven ashqre. A British steamer the Fbra Ohorn Klay, sustained considerable damage on deck; and the British steamer, Abyssinia, from Vancouver to Hongkong, was hove to for 80 hours, and the barometer was at 28.75. Several junks were lost. A girl, four men, and a boy were picked up by a passing vessel at sea after a hurricane, and reported 8 having sunk from exhaustion. News is also to hand by the Airlie that an outbreak at Formosa had taken place, and 200 soldiers were reported filled, p was also stated that a nephew of the Governor of Formosa lost his life at the hands of too natives, Tremendous floods have eoonrred in China, The destruction of life and property was terrible ; villages were swept away. A guafioat which arrived at Ning Pofrom Neuohow reported passing eevsral hundred bodice floating inthe water.