英語訳
**[Upper Section]**
As food supplies were insufficient, some people were on the verge of starvation. Police stations dispatched boats to check on the conditions of individual households, while residents sent boats to police stations, county offices, and local government offices to seek relief — the resulting chaos defied description. There were reportedly those who, with floodwaters reaching even the second floor, were in desperate straits for a place to take refuge.
**Dispatch of Flood Damage Inspectors to Gifu** The Ministry of Home Affairs had initially planned not to dispatch special inspectors unless flood damage was particularly severe across the various affected regions. However, as reports indicated that flooding in Gifu Prefecture was the most extreme — with the entire area of Seinō's various districts having turned into something resembling a lake — and as the prefectural governor formally requested the dispatch of inspectors, the ministry ordered the Chief of the Documents Section, Saitō Shigeyoshi, to travel to the area to inspect conditions firsthand. He departed on last night's final train.
**All Household Belongings Washed Away** In Nagashima Village, Kuwana County, Mie Prefecture, which had been reduced to a scene of utter devastation by the breach of the Kiso River embankments, residents had seen the river rising and had taken the precaution of gathering their household belongings and moving them to higher ground. This elevated location had not flooded during the inundation of Meiji 26, and they were confident that even if the embankment broke, they would be safe. However, this time the water level exceeded the previous flood by approximately two shaku seven to eight sun, or even three shaku, and all the household goods they had carefully gathered were entirely swept away. They escaped with their lives alone.
**Flood Victims Go a Full Day Without Food** In the Gifu area, few of the flooded houses had two storeys, and flood victims huddled on roof beams or sheltered in makeshift huts on the embankments, some going without food or drink entirely. Attempts to deliver drinking water and emergency cooked rations to these people were hampered by the difficulty of obtaining water, and even when rice was available there were no vessels in which to cook it. At the time of flooding, all parties went without food for at least a full day.
**Two Hundred Thousand People Receiving Relief** According to a report sent to the Kokumin Kyōkai by Representative Ōno, while the number of those who drowned or died otherwise in Gifu Prefecture (excluding Hida) amounted to barely more than ninety, the number of those receiving emergency cooked-rice relief at hillsides and on high ground had reached over 190,000 as of the day before yesterday; adding Hida, the figure would surpass 200,000, it is said.
**[Lower Section]**
**Damage to Gifu Prefecture's Embankments** The total number of embankment damage sites in Gifu Prefecture reached 244 locations, with a combined length of 20,820 ken. Of these, complete breaches numbered 136, totalling 14,026 ken in length; partial collapses and other damage numbered 108, totalling 6,794 ken in length.
**Entering and Exiting Through Holes in the Roof** In the eight villages of Mawanaka, Atsumi County, Gifu Prefecture, floodwaters reached the rooftops and residents climbed onto their roof beams, breaking through the roof to create makeshift entrances and exits. All were suffering from lack of food and pressed by hunger and thirst; 4,680 people were receiving relief assistance.
**The Famous Cormorant Fishing Site Becomes a Sea of Mud** At Ugaiya, a district of Nagara Village along the banks of the Nagara River in Gifu, over 150 ken of embankment broke on the 20th of July and a major breach occurred on the 21st, resulting in the loss of more than 50 households. The river water spread across Doi, Masaki, and neighbouring villages, transforming the entire area into a sea of mud. In Nagara Village, rainwater is being used, barely, for drinking purposes.
On the 27th, the prefectural government convened an emergency session to deliberate on funds for provisional repair works, amounting to over 130,000 yen.
Following an inspection tour of the Mino region's flood-damaged areas — including Gifu, Ōgaki, and Tarui — the situation was reported as follows: rivers had risen violently, embankments had burst and collapsed, floodwaters had inundated the land, and flat terrain resembled a lake throughout. Postal routes were completely unable to function normally, and mail collection and delivery was impossible except for limited areas. Arrangements were being made to inaugurate temporary postal service between Gifu and Tarui, but there was no prospect of securing a fully operational route. The flood damage was even greater than in the previous year.
**Bamboo Used as Telegraph Poles** As floodwaters in the Gifu area had still not receded, it was impossible to erect telegraph poles; bamboo was being used as temporary poles, barely maintaining telegraphic communication.
**The Kiso River Embankments** The Kiso River was the site of the most extensive damage in this flood disaster, with more than ten locations where embankments were destroyed. The embankments in question had been reconstructed following the flood damage of Meiji 24; they reached a height of two jō nine shaku, had a gradient of two bu five rin, and the base of the embankment reportedly had a width of several tens of shaku.