| Show unfortunate JAPAN the prose press dispatches of november 13 brought intelligence that on the lath sod and of october there had been beela another great storm in japan and that a vast amount of damage had been doi do a to property and some I 1 lives Jives had been lost details af f the cat catastrophe astrop have been received showing that it was much worse than at first reported the storm was most terrific in its baure the wind reached a fearful carry ng with its force fares more titan than six hundred vessels out to sea most of these theme were later stranded on the beach and a considerable number of their occupants were thug thua enabled to escape the waves ran so high that the glass of f the gap ruck reck lighthouse on the china coast was broken this light to ie feet above the ordinary sea level but it was on land but the grest great destruction took place rivers rose from fifteen to thirty feet above their normal level sweeping wt away bridges washing out road ou buergi farming lands and rendering thuu ends of persons homeless and destitute the rain which descended in torrents tor renta 0 caused heavy landel landslides lues which in one instance demolished two small villages and nd killed sixty of the inhabitants two thousand houses were washed away and a great many more practically destroy destroyed des troed ed more than eight hundred persons are known to have bee been 0 killed in the town of ok yama where the greatest lose wag nearly people were deprived of lile life and property was wag dam aged to the amount ot of nearly surely a brief contemplation of the destitution the hardships the dea destruction truc and the anxious forebodings that exist in other parts parr of earth is sufficient to bring to the people of utah lull full realization of the fact that not withstanding the comparatively alight inconveniences and afflictions they nave to bear they have bare abundant cause to pe be thankful |
