Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1906 — SIX HUNDRED JUNKS SUNK. [ARTICLE]

SIX HUNDRED JUNKS SUNK.

Loss by Typhoon at Honifkosg Reaches Appnllinsr Kiaores. The entire fleet of 000 fishing junks sailing from Hongkong was lost in the typhoon, increasing the death toll to 10,000 persons. Practically all the Baluchistan troops and 300 of the \Nest Kent regiment are co-operating iu clearing away the wreckage of the typhoon. Prodigious efforts are being made to recover the bodies, which are being carried off in cartloads. The full extent of the typhoon’s havoc is not yet known, but conservative estimates place the material damage at $20,000,000. Reports of disasters at sea are constantly being received. The steamer Albatross, with fifteen passengers on board, foundered near Futuamen pass. Only six passengers and two of the crew were saved. They swam ashore.- The steamer Hongkong also was lost, and its entire crew is missing. The steamer Ying Fat. from Samchun, foundered and 130 passengers and ten of its crew arc missing. Only two of the crew are said to have been rescued.