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Show BUILDINGS SHOOK ELEVEN MINUTES Earthquake at Yokohama Causes One Death and Much Damage to Property. Not Since the Great Disaster In the Gifu District, In 1885, Has Yokohama Yoko-hama Been so Severely Shaken Up. Victoria, B'. C. Details of the worst of the many earthquakes felt in Yokohama Yo-kohama and vicinity since the disaster disas-ter of fourteen years ago, when a severe se-vere shock occurred, were brought Ihere by the steamer Kaga Maru, which arrived from the Orient on Thursday. There was little loss of life, however, one Chinese boy only being killed and a Japanese and his wife fatally injured. For eleven minutes and eight seconds sec-onds Yokohama's buildings shook and considerable damage was done. Reports Re-ports from Tokio, Azabu and other places show that much damage without with-out loss of life occurred. Not since the great disaster In the Gifu district in 1885, when the destruction de-struction was immense and 20,000 lives were lost, had Yokohama been so severely shaken. There was considerable con-siderable excitement and people ran from the shaking houses. The greatest damage was done on the bluff, where the foreign houses, including many fine structures, are located. The office buildings on the Bund and in the business section and the mass of wattled houses of bamboo, bam-boo, mud and paper in the Japanese section escaped with slighter injury. The steamers in the harbor were all severely shaken. |