CLOUDBURSTS AND FLOODS

Evening Star, Issue 22069, 1 July 1935, Page 9

CLOUDBURSTS AND FLOODS

DEATH AND DESTRUCTION IN JAPAN THOUSANDS OF HOUSES DESTROYED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright TOKIO, June 29. Cloudbursts have been experienced throughout Western Japan, especially in Kyoto, where the swollen Kamo River swept down the centre of the city, inundating thousands of buildings and demolishing historic structures. At least 22 are dead or missing in the Kyoto and Osaka- floods. Twenty thousand houses were destroyed or submerged. All the rivers burst their banks, carrying off 60 bridges. HUGE RESERVOIR BURSTS TOKIO, June 30. Sixty people are dead in Central Japan as the result of the floods. Several miners were trapped in collapsed pits. Fifty thousand houses have been flooded in Kyoto, which has 20,000 homeless. Seventy-five thousand houses are affected in Osaka, and many factories have stopped working. A huge reservoir at Nishinomiya burst, inundating 15,000 houses. Water mains in Kobe burst, and the city lacks drinking water. Troops in Kyoto and Osaka are assisting in maintaining the .embankments, FURTHER HEAVY RAINFALL TOKIO, June 30. (Received July 1, at 12.40 p.m.) With further excessive rainfall in the Chikugo Province, the river has risen 23ft, endangering refugees on the higher ground. The death roll is 85, and 292 houses were carried away, 916 wrecked, and 191,000 damaged, and 515 bridges destroyed. The cities of Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, and Gifu are involved in flooding as the result of which 500,000 people are discomfited.