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The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], The late typhoon in China. (search)
The late typhoon in China. One of the missionaries of the American Board writes home to a friend in Baltimore, giving a thrilling account of the perils to which they were exposed from the typhoon of last July. The following is an extract from one letter: Canton, China, Aug. 5, 1862. On Sunday, July 27, we suffered a most terrible typhoon. Not since 1832 has there been one anything like it, and many say not since the memory of man. On Saturday morning we saw the white caps rising on the river, and nearly all the boats moving off into the creeks and small streams for safety.--Still we had no thought of anything more than a heavy storm, after such intensely hot weather, day and night, for weeks. Between ten and eleven o'clock, the water from the river began rising in our yard. We closed our blinds and windows, and put up the typhoon bars in front, then began moving chairs, books, &c., in towards the backside of the sitting-room, as the wind was driving the rain in