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DESTRUCTIVE TYPHOON IN JAPAN.

SERIOUS LOSS OP LIFE AND ENOEMOUS DAMAGE. fPRBSS ASSOCIATION.} Thubsdat Island, 20th August. Eastern filo3 to 7th August by theChingtu reoord that by a typhoon at Kunobinsky, fire steamers and the British ship Mareschal Suet were driven ashore, but fortunately there was no loss of life. Reports from Tokio Btate that in the same gale 19 people were killed and 14 injured. Sixteen hundred houses were destroyed, and 1400 damaged. Ninety-eight vesseU of all sizes were wrecked. A train from Hiroshima with 386 passengers, mostly disabled soldiers, was thrown into the sea, and 11 men killed and eight seriously hurt. Part of the train disappeared altogether.

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Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 45, 21 August 1895, Page 2

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DESTRUCTIVE TYPHOON IN JAPAN. Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 45, 21 August 1895, Page 2

DESTRUCTIVE TYPHOON IN JAPAN. Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 45, 21 August 1895, Page 2