Show THE TOKIO IRE Five Thousand Houses Including Inclmlng Forty Warehouses Burned Treaty Revision Occupying the Attention of the Chinese Ministers A Native Paper Says the Emperor May Visit the Fair SAN FRANCISCO April 29The steamship steam-ship Bolglc arrived today bringing details of the great fire at Tokio Japan April 10 Tho fro started early in the morning aud spread in threo directions through the densely populated districts I was extinguished ex-tinguished by noon after consuming 5000 houses on twenty streets including forty warehouses the police station the panorama pano-rama building the Russian school Tokio English school Kinji school and the residences resi-dences of Viscount Fade Admiral Akamtsu Count Karasumuru and Marquis Tokudaiii Details of the loss of life are meagre I is variously estimated that from seventeen to fortyfive perishes The steamer Raid en Maru was sunk by floating ice in Kushiro harbor and forty were drowned A tempest raged along the coast and of thirty fishing boats out at the time eight worecked and the others have not been heard from Nino bodies were washed ashore Tho steamer Idzumo Mary struck a rock at the entranco to the islands of Korean Archipelego on April 4 and sank Of fifty on board thirteen ffy persons were saved It is supposed the others wero all drowned An explosion of fire damp occurred at Horonai colliery March 18 A hundred and fifty convicts and a hundred miners were employed in the colliery and colery a number num-ber killed and severely or fatally wounded Tho damage to the mine was 01000 Yokohoma ad vices say In the election riot at Gamorua Shorugun April 9 thirty four persons were seriously wounded Treaty revision is again occupying the attention at-tention of cabinet ministers Tho draft of the treaty is not mado public The imperial im-perial diet will open May G A native paper pa-per states the Emperor is likely to visit the Worlds fair |