Widespread Damage and Many, Casualties: Yokohama Sailings Held Up As a result of a typhoon a passenger train from' Tokyo to Nagoya was overturned near Hamamatsu this morning, but fortunately there were only a few minor casualties, The roof of a school at Ham: matsu was blown off at the same time, The typhoon is expected to strike Tokyo this afternoon.
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Reports now coming in show that the damage was widespread and that communications were upset.
At a military aerodrome at Akenogahara, near Nagoya, 40 aeroplanes were wrecked, several completely.
Toyohashi a school collapse pinning down the children, 12 of whom were killed and 20 seriously Injured. Three hundred houses were inundated.
A Hamamatsu clothing factory was destroyed, eight being killed and 25 injure At Tochigi, fecture, 40 build including the police station. Three policemen and several others were seriously hurt, At Kawasaki, near Yokohama, two lighters capsized, 15 persons being drowned. enZety houses were blown down being killed.
is morning at Saitama, five people
Sailings from Yokohama, including the Siberia Mara one held up owing to the severity of the gale, School's Collapse on Children Later Yesterday's typhoon only did minor damage in Tokyo and Yoko-1a, mainly confined to roofing ud walls, though several houses were partly demolished, There were also a few minor casualties.
Additional reports coming in include 60 children injured when a., school in the Aichi Prefecture lapsed burying 900 children beneath the debris, whilst reports from Saitama state that nearly 100 hous were demolished there with 67 casualties, The sea also took a heavy toll of life as several small craft were wrecked.
The Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden, who spent yesterday at Chusenji Lake for the purpose of seeing a regatta there, wore forced to return to Nikko in the evening by riesha instead of motor car as the storm had damaged the mountain road rendering it dangerous for motor traffic, Nearly Two Hundred Casualtion Sept. 6.
The official figures of Saturday's typhoon damage, published thi morning, include 31 dead, nine jing, and 159 injured, Two hundred and fifty-four buildings were destroyed, and 630 damaged, but as communications have not yet been fully restored thei were probably further damage ai casualties—Reuter.
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