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Show RIVER OVERFLOWS TOWN SUBMERGED Disastrous Floods Ravage Japan, I Over Six Hundred Lives Being I Lost in One Town. 1 Frail Bamboo Houses Were Swept Away by the Raging Waters and the Helpless People Drowned M Like Rats In a Trap. fl Vlctoitn, D. C.-J-Advlces ot a tor- I rlblo disaster due to tho great noons prevailing In Japan have been re- eclved. Tho overflow of tho river I Otonashlgawa, running through tho town of Fukuchlynmn, near Kyoto,- caused tho loss of more than GOO lives. In this river tho water roso moro- I than fifty feet (CO shnku) and swept. I over tho whole town ot Fukuchlynmn, I drowning over GOO Inhabitants and I sweeping away n largo number ot tho I frnll bamboo nnd thntch houses ot the- I Japanese townspeople. I Tho barracks of tho Twentieth regl- I mcnt and Tenth engineers battalion. I situated on heights nenr tho town, es- I caped damage, when tho town was I overwhelmed, nnd tho troops wore I hurried out to render what assistance I could bo given to tho survivors -nA to rescuo drowning people. Tho po.. 1- . latlon ot the town wns over 12,000 pen- M plo. Hurriedly fifty or more sailing ' junks were secured and despatencu H to tho scene, being sailed over what H was formerly a thickly settled town. soldiers mnnulug tho Junks, saving H largo numbers. Tho pollco have re- H covered GOO bodies and others aro be- H Moved to have been lost. H Tho wntcr subsided next morning. H August 27 tli , and great damage wns revealed. One-half of tho town wns entirely swept nway and tho remalnd. or hnd largo numbers of collapsed buildings. Tho whole town was prne- m tlcally destroyed, tho sceno being tor- U rlblo beyond compailson. Genernl Kit- rokl nnd Governor Omorl of Kyoto Fu were In tho city, the former being en- gaged In Inspecting the troop's, and Ik H said to have narrowly escaped the H danger. H |