New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-14

OVER 100 PERSONS DROWNED AND
THOUSANDS OF HOUSES
SWEPT AWAY.
VESSELS AT MANY FORT, WRECKED II \ STORM
AND LARGE NUMBER oF SAILORS
LOsT-FIFTY PERSONS KILLED


San Francisco. Nov. l3.-The steamer China
brings news Of two severe calamitics In Japan. one
was a series OF disastrous floods IN tho southern
and middle provinces. and the other was the found
cring Of forty-four fishing boats OF the western
coast during typhoon. and the loss Of all their
occupants. numbering li2 men.
Following are the returns Of The outcome ~ the
irundaon up to October p: Deaths. l.557. persons
missing G27: vessels wrecked j77; houses entirely
destroyed. S9ls Tho greatest loss OF life reported
up to the date mentioned was go In the province
OF InabA. At Okayama nearly 1900 houses were
destroyed At Oita li vessels were wrecked, nut
Ehime exceeds this number By twenty AT oiia
30, persons were drowned ard more than 700
houses wrecked.
Al Tovoe the water rose twenty feet and
submerged all the houses In tho town.
At Minomua Il attained hcigh, Of thirty
feet. sweeping away many houses NJ
Kawabc the river rose eighteen feet and broke
down Il great cmbankmrnt, carrying away ="
houses About 20 persons are unaccouned Tor
Going northwarl. the storm beat with violence on
the island Of Sado. whore 1t brofc 90 pieces SIX
vessels n tho port Of Yehlsu and nine others ~
Sulsu four scnIscn losing their lives Touching at
Toyama Ken Il carried away lvfN-'ish' h"uSrr
and broke down the roads - Shns Mlnaro. nul
without any Toss Of ne N the city u Ioynina ana
eighty houses were carried away ana moro thah
81 are under water. Tho Noshno rose twenty
seven feet In Tokushima Ken many houses , wcrr
demolished ana IN" gnhahhl,n' Dur, ~, "a @ @Ii,'i's
places In Kawabc and the nciShborhood 400 houses
Nere carried away ana 'Ht' or more Iail ~
porsons Is still uncertain. while go houses have been
syepi away at kUboya ~ Ianoura, In Buzen. "A
larrr number OF junks and fishing boats were
sn nshcd to pieces ~ to the present IN" report oI
tha greatest loss Of life 80 far as actually known
c( X from Fuiakata-tiun In HyOgO-h Ken, where a
uuantainsidc gave way. burying two villages and
hiIng ifty persons 4; Msum. in Kumantoken,
uue-tcnths OF the hous"e were damaged ana al TN"
p,louns Of the rice exporters Wer" blown down
A. the two entrances to the port 20 vessels were
shattered TO splinters The wharf AZ Oita Harbor
il half destroyed and most Of the houses ar" de-
molIshed The Tsurusakigaiva River burst its
hanks and carried houses to In all ro-
gIons bodies Of men and cattle TO be seen In
hnops At Moi twenty-fOur Ves9es fOundcred. on
Ta nowIa seven Others We're wrecked and the crews
we're seen clingng to the topmas,s and CRYING for
holm but no aid could be given and they sank into
The sea The total number Of vessels wrecked In
that ncighborhood cannot BE- much under seventy.
81 osaka sixty seventy junks and fishing
boats foundcrcl. At the pert Of Tanoura six teen
,unks were smashed 10 pieccf. it Nagrsak cigh-
tccn or twenty iunks went ashore and most Of
them are broken beyond repair. The Mitsu Bishi
cnllieries alone have lost eleven iunks sunk and
nine. cen damaged and at the mines seven have
been sunk and FIVE damaged. About twenty cargo
hoa,s have also been lot. Tho reported loss OF
life IS thirty, but this Is rot yet confirmed