The morning call., 1891-10-22
A TYPHOON.
The Terrific Storm That Swept
Over Japan on the 3Oth Ult.

The steamer Oceanic, shat arrived from
China and Japan late Tuesday night,
brought advices from the Orient to October
9th.
From the Japan Mail we take the follow
ing account of the great gale that visited
Yokohama on the 30th of September:
The wind rose considerably during the
night, a moderate sOutherly gale was blow
ing. The glass tumbled down very quickly
as the morning wore on, and the blow may
be i'd to have attained its climax between
II and u o'clock The four-masted ship
Simla, which was to have sailed on Monday,
but was lying near the Hghtship, dragged
her anchors distance of a mile toward
Kawasaki. The Empress Of India, which
came in shortly after 9 o'clock, could not
get up to her buoy, the presence OF the
small steamer ROtick right in the fairway
between the two lightships no doubt con-
tributing to this result, and had t. anchor
in a rather risky berth to the westward,
whence she steamed up and anchored close
to her mOorngs an hour later.
Soon after noon the wind began to drop,
and by half-past l it had shifted TO the
southwest. and was only strong breeze.
In Toxic very extensive damage was
done. Many trees in Uyeno Park are up
rooted and the wooden fences of the mu-
scum. as well as of many other places, wera
thrown down. One Of the falling trees cut
the telephone wires, and another wrecked
the Switehback Railway. In the Nippon
bashi district several houses we're uurO0fed,
and large airing-place erected on the roof
Of wine merchants place in KakigarachO
was swept away and precipitated on the
caves Of a gardeners house close by, Sc
verelV Woundng an old woman who hap
pened to be passing at the time. Two boats
were sunk at Ryogoku, but fortunately with
out any loss Of life. Outside Shin bashi Sta
ti0n the force Of the gale was terrific. Sew
eTel iinrikiSha were upset, one in which Tor
egn lady and child we're seated being blown
over on the very edge of the canal into
which the two would nave been thrown had
not some bricks stayed their descent. In
the neighbOrhOod Of OmOrl and Haneda all
the seaweed put ont to dry was swept away,
and on the Susaki shore recently finished
filling Of about 1000 tsubo of earth melted
away like sand at the fall of the tide. The
injury done to the wires OF the Shinagawa
Electric Light Company was so serious that
they will be unable TO work for some DAYS,
but the Toxic Company's lines escaped
with little damage. In the neighbOrhood of
ReiganchO and Fukiyacho the waves rolled
into the houses, two of which were over
thrown, three men being wounded. At
Kanasugi a steamboat turned turtle, and
herengiues were washe away, happily with
out loss OF life. In Shlnagawa Bay many
junks were wrecked, the largest a vessel
OF ZOO k0ku capaclty' lhe CASUALTIES W
life and limb in this connection are not yet
aseertained. The uncOmpeted building Tor
theater at Tameike. Akasaka, as well as
that for the Komagome Hospital were re-
duced to piles OF rubbish. The tram-cars
between Shimbashi and Uyeno were stopped
for some hours. Telegraph and telephone
posts fell and wires were severed. The
service of trains on the TOkaido and Toxic
Yokohama lines was also more or less in
terrupted. Crops are not reported to have
suffered much. but great injury was done to
fruit trees The Central Meteorological o.