Majority Drowned as Storm Strikes Fishing Fleet Tokyo, July 24.
Forty-two persons, most of them Ashermen out at sea," lost their lives:
last Wednesday's typhoon, which devastated the Loochoo islands and Kyushu. Of the vielims, 30 were! killed In Kagoshima Prefecture and nine in Nagasaki Prefecture, Twenty-four persons were reported missing this noon, while 27 others were! Injured.
Heavy property damage was caused in' Kyushu, according to police reports received this morning by the Home Office. Throughout the devastated area, 435 buildings were torn down by the typhoon, 373 others, were damaged and 9,023 "were inundated. In Nagasaki Prefecture lone the number of destroyed bulld-ings. was estimated at 200, with $80 others submerged. Fifty-nine sea-craft of all descriptions were washed away or sent to the bottom by the storm, "The fures for Japan were: six. ships foundered, 38 washed away, 50 wrecked.
'All' railway, telegraph and telephone services in Kyushu were interrupted.
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