Show e REROVERFLOVS R O TOWN SUBMRGD Disastrous Floods Ravage Japan Over Six Hundred Lives Being Lost in One Town Frail Bamboo Houses Were Swept Away by the Raging Waters and the Helpless People Drowned Like Rats In a Trap Victoria IJ CAdvlces of a ter rlble disaster due to tho great floods havo bern received prevailing in Japan celved The overflow of the river Otonashlgawa running through the town of Fukuchlyama near Kyoto caused the loss of more than 600 lives I In this river the water roso more than fifty feet 50 shaku and swept over the whole town of Fukuchl > ama drowning over 600 Inhabitants and of the largo number sweeping aWAY a frail bamboo and thatch houses of tho Japanese townspeople The barracks of tho Twentieth regiment regi-ment and Tenth engineers battalion situated on heights near the town er caped damage when tho town was overwhelmed and the troops were hurried out to render what assistance could bo given to the survivors and to rescue drowning people The population popu-lation of tho town was over 12000 people peo-ple Hurriedly fifty or more sailing Junks were secured and despatcnea I to the scene being sailed over what was formertf a thickly settled town soldiers manning the junks saving largo numbers The police have recovered re-covered COO bodies and others are believed be-lieved to have been lost The water subsided next morning August 27th and great damage was revealed Onehalf of the town was entirely swept away and the remainder remaind-er had large numbers of collapsed buildings The whole town was practically prac-tically destroyed the scene being terrible ter-rible beyond comparison General Ku rokl and Governor Omorl of Kyoto Fu wero In the city the former being engaged en-gaged In Inspecting the troops and Is said to have narrowly escaped the danger |