Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1899 — THOUSANDS DIE BY STORM. [ARTICLE]

THOUSANDS DIE BY STORM.

Entire Villages In Japan Reported na Swept Away. The steamship Empress of India brings details of the storm which swept across Japan. The prefectures of Kochi, Takamatsu, Ehime and Okayama suffered most, a total of 325 lives in all being officially reported lost, with 11,135 houses overthrown or inundated in Kochi, Takamatsu and Okayama. , Ehime reported no financial loss, but the death of 1,500 residents, the greatest casualties occurring at a large village near the Besshi copper mine, which was utterly obliterated. From the wreck of this mine itself 120 corpses had been removed at last advices, while it was feared that fully 000 others remained below ground.