Rains, Tidal Waves Wash Out Railway Tracks: Shipping Hampered Tokyo, Aug. 20.
Railway service was disrupted, shipping was badly hampered and numer-us urban areas suffered heavy proerty dar.age asa. typhoon lashed the southern part of Japan to-day.
Heavy rains and tidal waves caused by the typhoon washed out a por-ton of the railway track on the trunk Une between Tokyo and Kobe, The damage was centred between Yul and Kanbara in Shidzuoka Pretecture. Railway officials hurried maintenance men to the scene, and it 1s anticipated that normal service will bbe resumed to-morrow.
Heavy seas caused by the storm caused one death in a marine disaster off Kobe, when a coal ship, the Fuku Maru, capsized. The victim was a member of the crew, Other persons aboard escaped and were rescued.
Even the large trans-Pacific ships were affected by the typhoon conditions prevailing in the area. The Empress of Russia, was reported overdue at Kobe this afternoon.—
United Pres
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