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Another Big Flood

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
July
Year
1889
Copyright
Public Domain
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San Francisco, July 16. - Tbe steamer City of New York arrtved Monday evening from Ilong Kong and Yokohama. The Japan Gazette of the 29th ult saya intelligence has been received at Hong Kong from Kiaying Chau, a préfecture in the northeast of Kwangtung, that early on the morning of the 2d inst. the Chan Ping and Ping Yuen districts were üooded by the bureting of a waterspout or tornado, described by the Chinese as a water dragon, and the level country flooded with nearly thirtysix feet of water. The villages of Chae Kon and Ha Ku Hul In the Ping Yuen district, and Cueong Tan, flop Lui, Ñgai Ku, Sam Chan Kiu and San Po Hui in Chaji Ping district were ÖVêrdowed, nïany houses beingf wholly jwept away, while others were lnundated. Üpw ard oí 0,000 lives were lost Ten thoueand people are homeless.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register