Show JAPANS DISASTERS Typhoon Floods ami Earthquakes Cause Much Misery and Want TACOMA Wash Oct Japanese advices to September 10 received by the steamer Braemar give graphic details de-tails of the widespread destruction wrought by the recent typhoon floods and earthquakes Many of the most important silk factories of the empire were so damaged that they were compelled com-pelled to close The cotton crop of Yamaohiono and Settsu was damaged onehalf and in Yamato and Kawachi provinces 30 per cent Owing to the flood a partial vegetable famine exists in Niigata prefecture In Rakuga Ak ita province over 1000 business houses were destroyed by the earthquake Dysentery is spreading over the empire I em-pire and many deaths result There were 24693 cases reported during the month of August SCO cases in the city of Tokio alone The proportion of I deaths throughout the empire is about one in ten of those affected |