Tokio, Sept. 30.
A typhoon is sweeping Japan. The wires are badly affected. Torrential rains are falling in Tokio and low-lying districts are flooded. The storm is expected to strike the city after midnight and much damage is anticipated.—Reuter.
Oct. 1.
As Was anticipated, the edge of a! typhoon struck Tokio and Yokohama last night, causing considerable damage, dislocating the means of locomotion, demolishing many houses and flooding low-lying areas.
It is known that one person was killed in Tokio and three at Yokohama, but it is feared that the death-roll in the flooded districts is heavy, Many people were injured.
In the Shimoshibuya section of Tokio, which was partly flooded, many families took to the housetops, necessitating their rescue by police and firemen in the darkness, amid running water, in which pieces of timber and furniture were drifting.
The electricity supply failed, and apprehensions of an earthquake and tidal wave added to the terrors of the population.
To-day has been fine and sunny.
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