Tokyo, Sept. 1.
OSIDES millions òf yen damage to property, shipping and crops, many lo were killed or injured in the typhoon—the worst since 1! which struck Yokohama, Tokyo and other parts of eastern Japan early today, the fifteenth anniversary of the disastrous earthquake of 1923.
Casualties included 29 persons injured in a tram-car collision near Higashikanagawa, close to Yokohama, late last night when the typhoon roared through Yokohama; two Korean students were electrocuted by falling high tension electric wires; five members of a family were pinned ünder the debris when their house in Omori, the southern suburb of Tokyo, collapsed at the height of the storm. Four of the five were extricated, but the fifth, a 19-year-old girl, succumbed tq her injuries.
Landslides following the typhoon increased the death-roll in many parts of the country.
Thirteen persons were killed in a village in Saitama Prefecture, while eleven deaths are reported in Gumma Prefecture, Three are known to be dead in Tokyo, where 12,000 people are taking refuge in a concentration camp, and where 730 houses collapsed and over 4,000 were damaged.
Three were killed in Yokohama, where hundreds of houses were demolished, three sailing boats and two dredgers sunk, and two steamers stranded.
The total shipping loss in Yokohama is estimated at Y.5,000,000.
The typhoon originated south of the Bonin Islands, and rolled north-north-west instead of north-northeast as was expected, thus battering Tokyo and Yokohama, The path of the storm, which had a velocity of more than 70 miles an hour, was marked by collapsed houses, uprooted trees, roofs of demolished wooden fences and broken signboards.
The velocity of the wind at Tokyo reached 17 metres per second at 1 am., 21 at 2 am., 25 at 4 am. and 31 at 420 o'clock. After that it decreased, reaching only 10 at 8 am,
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