Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-08-18
500 LIVES LOST;
BIG TYPH00N
DEVASTlNG TIDAL WAVE SWEEPS
OVER PORTIONS OF
JAPAN.
PROPERTY LOSS HEAVY
12,ooo HOUSES COLLAPSED IN
VICINITY OF TOXIC
ALONE.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Victoria, b. C.-From a typhoon and
tidal wave which swept over Japan,
according TO advices just brought by
the Empress of Japan, more than 500
lives were lost and great devastat
ashore resulted. The fishing fleets
from Shidzueka suffered severely.
More than 200 fishermen were
drowned
At Toxic a tidal wave swept away
many houses. including a large tea
house with thirty-three people. The
SUI Ii licensed quarters on Shimaga-
wa bay were demolished, scores of
persons being drowned. crushed to
death or mortally injured.
The noted Sherigawa inlaid WORK
factory collapsed and fifteen employees
were killed, those who escaped swim
ming to roofs of neighboring houses
after crawling from the debris. a tor
pedo boat was swept in shore at To
kio and several steamers foundered
while big liners dragged anchors
Eight OF forty men on the Aomori
Maru survived when she went down
in the typhoon off Kuno. and 100 fish
ermen were drowned off there.
The Japanese naval training squad
ron was crossing off Tosa and two
seamen were killed on the Hashidate
and seven injured. three mortally. a
dredeer at Chiba was lifted from its
moorings and east far on shore. At
this place sixty-four men who went to
save q fishing dc were caught in
a tidal wave and fifty-three were
drowned. Messages from many points
tell similar tales of disaster of fish
ing vessels sunk; rivers overllowed,
floods and sea walls broke.
Thousands of houses collapsed, the
number in Toxic and vicinity alone be-
ing over 1900, according to official
statistics. The warehouse and fac
tory district suffered severely at To-
kio. eight warehouses, containing
&c IS worth s16.OOO.OOO. mostly rice.
sugar. paper and fertilizer. being de-
molished. The loss there was over
Si.00O,OOO.
The sealing schooner Mirage Maru,
returning with her catch. foundered
off Chiba. and only two of her crew
reached shore. A bark with a crew of
thirty-eight went down off Tsuruga.
Three motor fishing vessels were
wrecked and all of the seventy-sx on
board drowned. At Hayama 200 fish
the cruiser Hiyei, under construction,
was damaged, the huge Gantry crane
collapsinE alongside. Four thousand
houses We're demolished at the naval
port. Survivors of the fishing fleet
from Yaizu report 121 lost.
The typhoon came in the early
morning. blowing more than sixty-five
miles an hour AS they rose the waves
pounded the sea walls, and the tidal
wave followed. the lower districts of
Toxic and Toxic bay being flooded
with such suddenness that the awak-
ened residents took shelter on house
drowned.
wreck.
Passengers of the wrecked Canadian
Pacific liner Empress of China. which
went ashore on Mora reef. Japan, 15O
feet from shore, have arrived on the
steamer Empress of Japan and give
details of the wreck. amplifying the
brief cablegrams received.
The Empress of China, after wealth
ering the great typhoou. in which
waves thirty feet high breaking over
ner. encountered fog the following
morning when nearing the japanese
coast and was proceeding at slow
speed when she struck on the reef, $50
yards from Shirahama village and half
a mile nearer shore than the Dakota
The liner bumped heavily over the
reef and the engines were put tull
speed astern in order TO pull her off,
but one engine stopped and the yes
sci swung around and struck by the
stern, breaking her stern post and
wrecking the steam steering gear.