HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE
TYPHOON STRIKES JAPAN TRAIN CRASHES INTO FLOODED RIVER Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright (Hoc. 12.30 p.m.) TOKiO, Oct. 1. Heavy loss of life and extensive damage to property and crops were caused by a typhoon which struck the Kagoshima and Miyazki prefectures, reports the Dome! Agency's Kagoshima correspondent. Over 100 people, mostly students, are believed to have lost their lives when three coaches of a train left the rails on a bridge and crashed into the flooded waters of a river in the Oita prefecture. Fifty bodies wore recovered. The 1 Nichi Nichi ’ says it is feared that 60 fishermen were lost in heavy seas which swept away six boats near Nagasaki.
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Evening Star, Issue 24005, 2 October 1941, Page 6
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114HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE Evening Star, Issue 24005, 2 October 1941, Page 6
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