Evening star., 1932-11-15
1OIDLOST IN STORM
SCOURG|NG Japan
1857 Houses Destroyed in
Five Prefectures-Ship-
ping Suffers Damage.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, November i5,-More than
100 persons were reported dead or miss
ing today in the wake of a 12-hour
typhoon thai scourged land and sea
In the Toxic district with togrential
rains ard a 1oo-mile gale.
The fishing villages of Fukushima
prefecture reported IS motor boats with
more than 100 fishermen aboard as
missing. Three bodies have already
been washed ashore
The freighter Unkai Maru, earlier
reported in distress. went aground on
Oshima Island at the mouth of Toxic
Bay. Fishermen rescued nine MEM
berS of the crew, but the % remaining
aboard were feared lost.
The navy sent destroyers to Oshima
to give any assistance possible.
rs Dead Ashore.
The home Office early tonight an
nounced total casualties ashore we're
26 dead, rs seriously injured and 26
missing. This did net include the loss
OF life at sea. n
The total number of houses destroyed
including those burned totaled 1887
and those seriously damaged, 4,413, acs
eording to the home ONCE figures.
The typhoon zone included the pre-
lectures Of Toxic, Chiba, KanagaWa,
Shizuoka and Fukushima, the first four
named bearing the brunt Of the damage.
Kanagawa prefecture, including the
cities of Yokohama and Yokosuka, re-
ported IS Of the deaths and in Toxic
proper there we're three, Landslides
claimed most Of the victims,
More than 100 houses were destroyed
and 1900 badly damaged in Toxic pre-
lecture. and in the capital itself 10000
houses were partially and temporarily
Hooded as the doWnpour inundated low
lying riyer-front streets.
II was believed probable the death
list would increase as losses among the
fishing feet and small coastal vessels
became known.
The main strength of the Japanese
navy. anchored of Yekosuka, felt the
fury Of the gale, which lasted through
all OF last night.
Naval Vessels Crash.
stroyer Asagiri broke their anchor
chains and eonided. Both were slight
ly damaged in the crash.
The destroyer Ikazauchi was blown
ashore, but was refioated later with
only minor damage. The cruiser Ms
shin drifted into contact with the un-
finished aircraft carrier Ryujo. The
Ryujo was damaged.
Several launches and other small
craft at the naval base were swamped
and foundered and the aviation and
other naval establishments ashore near
by did not escape unseathed.
The battleship Nagato and other cap
ital ships were so buffeted that they
threatened to break their anchor chains.
They prepared to steam to sea, but
found it would be unnecessary.
While the tempest was raking his cap
tal, Emperor Hirohito remained in
Osaka in the north, where he had been
reviewing army maneuyeTs. He tele-
graphed President Gerardo Machado of
Cuba the sympathy OF Japan in the
death OF 2.500 or more in last weeks
Caribbean hurricane.
Trains bringing Prince Chichibu and
other notables back to Toxic from the
Osaka Haaneuvers were several hours
late because Of crippled railway lines.
Storm Worst Since 1917.
The Navy Department statement on
the storm said the winds reached
maximum velocity of 100 miles an hour
at the height Of the storm. The tor
rental rains whipped across the capital
district with binding ferocity
The storm was declared the worst
since 1877 IS it sped across HOMO, the |
main island of the group that makes !
up the Japanese empire.
communications were down in every |
direction and were being restored but !
slowly. Several towns spent the night |
In darkness.
Reports over crippled lines said 500 !
houses were destroyed by fire at Namat- |
su, and 80 of the houses wrecked at |
Suzukawa were buried in a landslide.