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A typhoon of unprecedented violence raged in this neighbourhood on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning last,’ reported the Hong Kong Daily Press, in its 1874 dispatch that appeared in newspapers around the world. It was one of the first reports to document in detail the effects of a typhoon pounding the territory.
The news cast quite a gloom over the European Community’, the Post reported. Bishop Joseph Hoare (left), killed during the typhoon of 1906, and Dr William Doberck, first Director of Hong Kong Observatory. Courtesy of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui and Hong Kong Observatory
So sudden was the storm’s grip on Hong Kong that an estimated 10,000 unprepared people perished, with around 1,000 junks destroyed. One notable among the victims was the Cambridge educated Anglican Bishop of Victoria, Joseph Hoare, who had been sailing with pupils near Castlepeak Bay when their vessel ‘received the full force of the typhoon’.