Twenty Thousand Houses Submerged: at Hiroshima Tokyo, Sept. 11:
Hiroshima messages state'that a [severe rainstorm struck the city and district last night.
Reports vary, but it appears that about 20,000 houses were submerged, and a hundred demolished.
'Thirty people are dead, 20 injured' jand 80 missing.
The main railway line connecting [Kobe and Shimonoseki was cut. There have been numerous land ides and bridges are down.
The city is described as a "sea of swirling: mud.
Sept. 12.
The Home Office has officially announced that' the Hiroshima floods jove subsided. The deaths number 49, the. missing, 52, and the injured, 22. Two hundred and forty-two houses have been destroyed.
The damage ix estimated at Railroads and telegraphs are being restored.
Apparently most of the deaths were caused by landslides—Reuter.
Osaka, Sep:
The torrential rain at fon Saturday amounted to in 12 hours.—Reuter,
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