Whether it is owing to the deplorable custom the Japanese have of cutting away hillsides to find sites for building or to the peculiar positions of particular temples T know not, but it is certain that the occasions have been numerous in which affright: ed folk who have taken refuze and found as they thought safety in some temple have only gone there to be virtually engulfed. Such a ease has just happened in connection with the floods between this and Tokio, At Hachiman, Gujo county, Gifu ken, aver fifty of the villagers fled to a Buddhist temple (Jionii). had not been there long when " landslip occurred, completely burying the building, and crushing no less than 38 of the 52 present to death, The fourteen who escaped with their lives suffered severe injuries.
FOUNDERING OF A STEAMER ON THE WEST
A telegram from Kanazawa to the Osakw Asahi announces the total loss of the steamer Wage Mari, off Apamiza, Not Province, at noon on the 24th inst. This report added that the boiler had exploded, and that the fate of 80 passengers was unknown. Later messages confirm the ill news as to the steamer's fate, but add the welcome intelligence that "f 79 souls on board 32 or 33 were saved, Particulars are anxiously awaited.
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