DEATHS & DAMAGE
CAUSED BY TYPHOON IN JAPAN TRAIN PLUNGES INTO RIVER FLOOD. FISHING BOATS SWEPT AWAY. . (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) TOKIO, October 1. Heavy loss of life and extensive damage to property and crops were caused by a typhoon, which struck the Kagoshima and Miyazki prefectures, reports the Domei Agency’s Kagoshima correspondent. Over one hundred people, mostly students, are believed to have lost their lives when three coaches of a train left the rails on a bridge and crashed into the flooded waters of a river in the Cita Prefecture. Fifty bodies were recovered. The “Nichi Nichi Shimbun” says it is feared that sixty fishermen were lost in heavy seas which swept away six boats Nagasaki.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1941, Page 6
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120DEATHS & DAMAGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1941, Page 6
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