The Archive · 1927

Details of Damage

Tokyo, Sept, 16.

According. to despatches from Kiushu, 2,000 troops are coal organizations in the the missing and to clear up the debris. About 400 bodies have 30: far been recovered.

'A total of 500 fishing-boats are reported to have been wrecked off Nagasaki and 26 fishermen drowned:

At Kawachi Hot Spring twelve of the thirteen hotels were swept away [by the floods and the thirteenth seriously damaged.

The'damage suffered at Yokohama when it was struck by the tail of the typhoon yesterday is estimated Jat Yen 500,000, A cyclone 60 yards wide left " half-mile trail of wreck fed buildings, tangled wires and showers of broken glass in its wake, Two large structures and several smaller houses and stores in the vicinity of the station were destroy-Jed and 30 persons injured, A gare Jage containing 30 taxis pletely wrecked and halt the cara destroyed, the remainder being more for less damaged. Four freight cars a railway siding overturned and) were smashed, while a motor-car was blown clear across the stroot Jand toppled over.

Eyewitnesses state that it Railway, telegraphic and_telephonic communications have been interrupted in many places, but repairs are being pushed forward with great energy and these communic tions are being rapidly restored

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