Tokyo, Sept. 11.
A typhoon followed by tidal waves, swept over a large part of Japan today, destroying communications, piling ships on the rocks, inundating villages and large sections of cities, and causing large losses.
Casualties late to-day were listed at 63 dead or injured. Fifteen were dead in Kyoto, fifteen at Takamatsu, fifteen in Nikko, fifteen in Okayama, eleven in Kochihianada. Reports from several. districts were not. in. but it was believed that casualties in these areas were high because of 4 the number of fishing boats engaged off shore when the typhoon struck, At noon Tokyo felt the edge of the strong winds with spasmodic heavy downpours but no damage was caused. At 1 o'clock, the Weather Bureau announced that the storm departed from Japan into the Japan Sea.
Considerable damage was done to the city power plants in Okayama where electric railways were disabled in an entire district. Five
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