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Show MISERY AND DESOLATION , Floods in Japan Arc Unparalled in Loss of Life Victor!, B. C, Sept. 3. More than 1,400 lives were lost In the Japanese floods, according to official reports received re-ceived by the Kamaliuru Mnru yesterday. yester-day. In addition, peroral hundred are reported missing and It is believed they never will be accounted for Arrivals bv the steamer say the scenes In central Japan were of unparalleled un-paralleled misery and desolation, M. L. Ryan, who took fOo,i to the Honjo district of Toklo, says the official offi-cial estimates of the deaths is far too nw. He tolls of finding houses whero parties of from twenty to one hundred In number were cut off arid starving, and estimates that l.OoO perished In this district alone. In the Senju district, a number of people who climbed telegraph poles to escnpe the waters, starved to death. Relief pnrtles found the bodies of thirteen men and women tied with ropes ti posts. |