Much Damage Reported with Some Loss of Life Tokyo, Aug. 29.
in storm on Priday and Saturday on Shikoku Island has done considerable damage, especially in the prefecture.of "Kochi, where bridges, houses, roads and rice fields were washed out. Over thirty fatalities have been reported from one place alone.
'Owing to the interruption of communications the total' number. of! casualties and the amount of age done cannot -be ascertained.
'A rainstorm also visited Nagasaki Saturday night, Thousands of small houses in the low districts inundated. Some casualties iso reported.
The Nagasaki Maru, which was scheduled to sail for Shanghai on Sunday, postponed ita departure.
The vessel is sailing this evening.
Later.
'The latest oficial report states that 35 persons were killed and two injured in Kochi and 27 killed and 11 injured, besides eight missing, in Nagasaki.' Deaths include those of persons drowned or killed by landslides, houses collapsing or lightning." Also, there are 24 fishing smacks missing off Kochi—Reuter.
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