Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1890 — THREE THOUSAND DROWNED. [ARTICLE]

THREE THOUSAND DROWNED.

Terrible Disnstrr to Fishermen on the Japanese Coast. The Pacific mail steamer “China” arrived at San Francisco on the 22d from Houg Kong and Yokohama. The people state that the storm which swept along the Boshu coast on Jan. 24, was very disastrous. About 1,000 fishing boats with between 2,500 and 3,000 fishermen drifted out to sea. Niue hundred of these boats with all the men aboard were lost. Most of the bodies drifted upon the beaoh and were taken care of by relatives. The same day eleven boats were wrecked in the sea off Tobishima during a storm and fifty fishermen were drowned. Jan. 25 twenty-three fishermen were drowned on the coast of Maschawa.

News has also been received of the disastrous storm which swept over the coasts of Toukomo and Chosie Eadsusa district the night of Jan. 26. Over three hundred fishing boats that were out never returned. Funeral ceremonies for about six hundred fishermen,Supposed to have been drowned, been observed. „ - —i-L-The K.-irtii Is Growing Larger. The American Geologist is responsible for the St 1 turnout that the earth is slowly but steadily growing larger, as it is constantly traversing new regions of space, which it depletes of meieorh dust and ineteofSties. They may, therefore. he room for all of us yet, in spite of the gloomy predictions of Malthusian. mathematicians. Optimism. “Into each life some rain mast fall,” Is written, uu i hone may do lbt it, And Lietler it is that rain should fail, 1? or ILo Would be dry without it.