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Show WHOLE VILLAGES BURIED. flooded by Torrent of Flaming Lava And Buried Under Hail of Rocks. San Francisco. The first detailed nccount of . the terrible eruption of Sakurajima, on the southern coast of Japan, was received here Saturday by mail. The correspondent places the loss of life, conservatively estimated, et "several hundreds." Not only was the Island of Sakurajima Sakura-jima itself, with its dozen villages, flooded by a torrent of flaming lava and buried under a hail of incandescent incandes-cent rocks, but the beautiful city of Kagoshima, overlooking the golden gate of Japan, was partly destroyed, several towns and villages on the mainland to the east were sore hit and the villages of Akamidzu, Yokoy-ama Yokoy-ama and Koarike were literally swallowed swal-lowed up by the molten lava. Until ..-'""ilcy-are dug out, no specific count of lives lost ever will be possible. |