Kobe, July 9.
Emergency repairs on the Kobe waterworks system, crippled by recent torrential rains that caused the collapse of reservoir walls, were completed today, as rehabilitation Work was being pushed on with new vigour.
Deaths, attributable to the floods and landslides caused by the rains, were put at 362 in the entire prefecture of Hyogo, The toll of life in Kobe alone was 298.
Out of 2,455 persons injured in the prefecture, 2,201 were hurt in Kobe.
Police reported that out of 394 persons missing in the prefecture, 359 had disappeared in Kobe.
Material damage was reported as follows: Houses washed away—Hyogo prefecture 2,137 including 1,662 ili. Kobe; Houses demolished—Hyogo 2,181, including 1,848 in Kobe; Houses partially destroyed 3,376 whereof 2570 were in Kobe.—Domei.
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