| Show MORMONS IN JAPANESE OON Letter from Mrs J Orant and Clipping Prom From The Japan Japaul herald Recies Recites Graphically Details of One of tile thc Fiercest Storms That Ever Iver Struck Yokohama Mr Mrs Heber J 1 Grant wring wrIting to 10 ho loved lond ones lt at home from Tokyo Ja Ja Japan pan under date dale ot of Oct 2 regarding the terrible typhoon that swept Yokohama on the and or of says I II I wi will tel cli you how the ston storm served ere us this first great typhoon In our eJ O The wind hal had been heen blowIng Quie quite hard ni alt night but we thought nothing of I it But Dut about daylight we were wre by a a harder gust than than usual My room nul I a tim bale side of at the Ite house and though my bed rocked I felt n no alarm but la lay out ot of the It at the trees rocked and twisted b by the fierce wInd ad and thought what a gral grand sight It was 08 All 1 ot of a sudden we hoard heard a terrIfic crash Olt and everybody II imi the lue house bounded out ot of bed We round found the tho whole front ot of the house nearl nearly blotti open There are double doors and ami these wih with clIng casing and everything had been torn or off nn and that Wil isas what we Ie heard crash In We I dressed al no quickly a as wo we could tearing fearing every mInute that the root would go ever next and then the lie ladles ladies went tent dowl down downstairs stairs amid the len men werl were on ditty for I several hours There was broken glass glas ul alt over oyer lie hour and and so forth braced up lle lie wIndows and then the men stood hoI hotl lag Ing the doors besides to keep them trum fromn blowing 11 In TIl Till wind t was very c strong stron and the lie rain came down In sheets The men wEe vere wet to the tho skin just the I sine me 8 as asif It if the had been right out doors door and ni although hough thc they kept one wiping up this thi watH vater from the carpet as aB fast ns as tile ble It soaked through and wet every everythIng thins thIng This parade In front rolt o of our house harked like th the waving SEI sea Treel Trees were ere tumbling over Oer In per every dl di and ond three large oles ones In front ot of our house were wele In danger or of taing falling onto the lie house hOURI The landlord h t six Alx to about the lime they climbed the Uel trees hlf half al as the they Were and wih with Ihl mIl rain lenting down I 01 on theta them 11 in the lie they led tied wih ropes and up UI w thi voles the these three trees so that the they did riot fall on the hou house e Wih these mel men outside workIng for lear dear Irl life as aM It seemed and oUr le melt Ins inside hie the gle gale 18 as the they could I it ed cd me ot of nothing so much al as a ship nt at sea Ia In a storm and nd In danger ot of In the midst ot of ni all this our young pun friend iame amo runnIng itt In at the hack door ni nit breathless s amid pall pale wih with excitement 1 lie has hAa blen been very to us antI saul ald I have come ome to hel help you rou UP lip ran around wildly first outside wih with th the men inca tn In the lie trees and I I I then Inside running up stairs nUl nUlI I down JI lie wu was barefooted and stopped 0 oh a plc of oC glass and cut his root foot but bul not bath badly Aler After It was 11 all over lie ho told bid u us In his broken I English what I a time he hail getting to us and we 11 iii laughed over owr I It The blew him down twice tho lie rain lt beat nl Into hil his face tAce so that hat h ho coull could not nol irn n his eyes IR ills hilt which was wua tIed Ol Ott wih wIth a 0 handkerchief Llew ble of off amI w rent up into Inlo the sky and tie he saw I It no more The wind blew ow him over and h he rel fell fat flat down anti ami went enl on his hands knees for a while Ia Ills neigh 1 toot root was flying In the thet t lh l h he ler left 1111 hIS aH afraId the lie debris would cover him himI I It was omu ln to hear him tel tell I it but bUI bUIwe we 11 all appreciated vry ery luch much thc lie Inter eat hi he took In us and limo tho rIsk he ran In out In iii such n a storm and he knew 1011 It wa Was be better ter than we did I lee never thought of typhoon while hlo hloI I it lasted or perhaps I would have been more mare tr lie He Ball said lie he knew how our house hous was as that It ita was wasa a foreign bui built hOURI house and not nol so wel well tilted to wIthstand the In the midst ot of It al all our five tho young Elders came cume In to attend Sunday school We did cud not look for at atal atall al all but tIle the sall said they would not thInk of t staying home Tile IY sere tiet through taut hut brought dry shops shoes and changed thim them and went to tn work vork help helpIng helping Ing nt at they could do We ISe hall 10 iii Sunday school though there thero too Ilch much and we ito did wel to tool clot ol for meeting nt at ata a Our young trl friend dish not nol back to 10 meetIng tho gh he cor but said he tel felt quite badly ni alt over and WI was asleep nearly ni all In InThe The storm with more or orless orless less severity ni all dB Clay and 11 all night Sun Sunday lla day time the wInd blew Llew very er hard so fO that we hardly knel knew whether to got get UI up anti go downstaIrs for safety or not Bul when morning ramI came the lun sun shone brIlliantly and It seemed no as thieve thero had never neer u a storm Th The Rol soil here hier Is I It serm to a ab absorb b bI orb thip water rater so 50 Aler After al all the water there was on limo parade ground on and tl thiu amount ot of raIn that fell thu was 1 er dry In tl lie streets the next day l really dUAt dusty Iut hut Ihl tue aroun around he house never neer gets getH dry do I It is 18 always damp tl and mossy part ot of the walls n tiM wel well Th storm af uis over oer Ind anti we were vr very thankful that we had lind escaped will little wih so The Japan Herald from which Mrs Ir Grant clipped n a long account ot If the lie torm says It WO was the fiercest ot of tho lie kind that ever visited and that there was a le loss ot of life In some me farts the tho to tu property was Iso also great great |
