The Archive · 1891

Accident to a Nippon Yusen

KAISHA STEAMER

The following telegram was received here on Tuesday evening from Naga-Takachiko Maru badly ashore at Tsushima, and may become a. total wreck, [Tsushima is 8 group of islands in the Corean Channel. The Takachiho Maru, Captain R. N. Walker, left Kobe on Thursday last for Viadivostock, vid Nagubaki, connecting at the latter port with the Yokohama Maru, which left this on Friday. The Takachiho Maru was foriierly the P. & 0, paddle-boat Delta, converted into a screw-steamer, and was of 1,406 tous.—Ep.]

Nagano, May 5th, 6,30 p.m.

A fire broke out this muming at 11 o'clock in Higashi-no machi, and the wind being high, the fire spread i all directions, running along the kido; and destroying 10,000 houses, atuniber of persons killed or wounded is not yet known. ~Kokkai Shimbun,

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