FLOOD DISASTER
CLOUDBURSTS IN JAPAN
THOUSANDS HOMELESS
DEATH-ROLL OF SIXTY
TOKIO, June 20. Cloudbursts have been experienced throughout Western Japan, especially in the island of Kyushiu and at Kyoto, where the swollen Kamo River swept down the centre of the city, inundating thousands of buildings and demolishing historic structures. Sixty are dead, including miners who were trapped in collapsed pits. Fifty thousand houses are flooded at Kyoto, which has 20,000 homeless. Seventy-five thousand houses are affected at Osaka, where many- factories stopped working. A huge reservoir at Nishinomiya burst, inundating 15,000 houses. Watermains' at Kobe burst, and trie city lacks drinking water. Troops are working at Kyoto and Osaka to assist in maintaining embankments. All the rivers in the. area burst their banks, carrying away 60 bridges.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 1, 1 July 1935, Page 9
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