NEW FLOODS IN JAPAN
200 Reported Dead In Honshu (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.m.) TOKYO, July 18. More than 1000 persons are missing and 200 are reported dead in the Wakayama prefecture of Southern Honshu after Japan’s second great flood disaster within three weeks, the police said tonight. The Arita and Kidaka rivers, fed by raging mountain streams and heavy rain, suddenly flooded this morning, sweeping away hundreds of houses in which many people were still sleeping. In answer to urgent requests, the United States Air Force sent Superfortresses flying low over the river mouths today, dropping lifebelts. A police official at Osaka said that reports from the stricken area said that dead bodies had clogged the mouth of the river Arita. The rapid rise of the floodwaters took many people by surprise this morning. One man rescued from the turbulent Arita river after being carried downstream for two hours said he woke up this morning to find the floodwaters sweeping through his house like a tidal wave. He climbed to the roof as his . house went rushing downstream, slowly disintegrating. His wife and children disappeared with the house.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27096, 20 July 1953, Page 9
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