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Show RIVER OVERFLOWS TOWN SUBMERGED Ditailrous Floods Rat age Japan, Over Six Hundred Lives Being Lost in One Town. Frail Oambee Meutca Were Swept Away by Ihe Haglng Watera and the Helpleta People Drowned Like Rata In a Trap. Victoria H C Advleea or a ter rlble rtlamter due lo Ilia great nnoda prevailing In Japan have been re-cnlved re-cnlved The overflow of Ihe river Otonaablgawa, niiinliig through the town or lrnkuclilynma, near l(olo, eauaed the Inaa of more Ihun (00 Uvea In thla liver the water mti more than flfly reel (An ahakui and ewept over the whole town or Pnkuchlyama, drowning ovir ono Inhabltanla and aweeplng away a largi number o( the frail bamboo and Ibatch hoiiaea or Ihe JapaneM townapeople The barracka or the Twentieth regl mem and Tenth engineer battalion allualed on helghta near Ihe town ok-capetl ok-capetl damage, when Ihe town waa overwhelmed, and Ihe troopa were hurried out lo render what aealatance niuld be glien lo Ihe aurvlvore and to reaoiie drowning people The popu latlon or Ihe limn waa over 12,000 people peo-ple Hurriedly (Illy or more anlllng Jnnka were aeciired and deapalcnen to the eeene, blng aalled over what wh rormerly a thickly aeltled town koldlera manning trio Junke, Having large iiuuilHra The Killre Imve re eovernl A00 iMellea nnd othera are Le lleveil to have been loet I lie water aiibeldod next morning, Aiigoat IIIIi nnd great dimaae nna revealed One heir of ihe limn mh entirely awept nwa) and tho remain'! it bud large iiuinliera or collnpeeil liulldlnga. The whole town wna prac-llcnll) prac-llcnll) dealroied. Ihe acene being ler rlble be) nnd comirlaon (leneral Ku rnkl and (hivernor Omiirl or Kyoto r'u were In Ihe rll) Ihe former bilng n gaged In lnaKllnK the tnxn and U Mild to lime nnrrowly eacaped the limine r |