STORMS IN JAPAN

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18672, 22 April 1926, Page 9

STORMS IN JAPAN

ENTIRE COAST SWEPT. •MANY FISHERMEN MISSING. .) (BI CABLE—PBJISS ASSOCIATION—COrTBIOHT.) * (BEUTEB, S TEUQ&AXS ) TOKIO, April 20. Owing to storms sweeping the entire coast of Japan yesterday, over 100 fishermen are reported missing. Authorities at Maizuru, assisted by a destroyer, are engaged in the search '' for the missing. Other localities also suffered damage, including a large bridge blown down at Inchinseki, in the Iwato Prefecture. Two hundred houses near Sapporo were submerged. A boat containing , seven members of a wedd"- party off the Kurilo Islands capsized and all were drowned. •l FIRE AND HURRICANE. t 1 (Received April 22nd, 12.15 a.m.) 3 TOKYO, April 21. r Owing to the violent galo which , swept over central Japan, several minor outbreaks of fire were fanned by the hurricane and developed into a disastrous conflagration. A fire which broke out at Nodachiba Prefecture reduced to ashes two large factories and 130 houses. The loss is estimated at 1,000,000 yen. l A dozen casualties are reported from tho villago of Nagano Prefecture, where 140 houses were destroyed, whilst from the Fukui Prefecture comes a re- . port that a woman and child were burnt to death in the village, where 140 houses were burnt. Other smaller conflagrations occurred in various localities, and numerous fishI ing-boat tragedies are reported, including 60 vessels off Fukui Fukui, which are missing.