Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — LOSS OF LIFE IN CHINA [ARTICLE]

LOSS OF LIFE IN CHINA

Two Thousand Persons Drown by overflowing Hiver. A steamer from China brings news that the overflowing of the Yellow river in Shantung province has caused an appalling disaster in central China. Villages were swept away by hundreds. One hundred thousand people are ruined and homeless; 2,000 drowned; cfops were ruined. Famine will prevail next winter in the district, which is populated by more than 100,000 people. Two hundred Chinese were drowned near Canton by the overturning of their vessel.