Tokyo, Sent. 14.
The typhoon which swept over the entire coast of Kyushu yesterday wax the mort violent one recorded in the' past forty years.
The town of Kojimachi was the worst cufferer as tidal waves swept over it, submerging 2,000 houses and carrying away 78, of which some are reported to have been carried. tso miles inland. Two villages on the! Outskirts of the town were virtuely wiped out. The total number of persons killed or injured is placed at 270, while 1,000 are reported to be missing.
Ta the city of Kumamoto a school 1g collapsed and several bonzes agony of.death.. 'Telegraph posts were torn up, windows smashed and' iron girders bent like matchsticks, Later.
The latest official despatches give the following. details of the damage: done in the diferent prefectures of Kumamoto: 185 persons dea missing, 811 houses wrecked, washed away, 145 damaged, inundated; Nagasaki: 21 dead, 13 injured, 2 misting, 620 boats ' wrecked, 528° houses destroyed, 247 washed away, 3,435. inundate 'Fukuoka: 20 boats wrecked, 40° damaged, 4 missing, 7,817 houses inundated, 14,270 refugees receiving: relief, casualties unknown, In' addition there was extensive damage to. embankments, paddy~ fields, railways, ete—Reuter.
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