Show MY OFfiCER RECOUNTS TAlE TAlEf kor f EARTHQUAKE Former of Amerian American Ameri- Ameri can an Embassy in T Tokio okio to Take Up Dus Duties Dutes Du- Du ties tes s at Fort Douglas I tUring graphically the barrown harrow harrow- n of the Japanese earth- earth I 1 a e e. e Major Edward 1 F. F Witsell It a e tc U. the American embassy emb L 1 oki okio during during- the disaster In n ember ember recounted a simple to talc l of the land of ot cherry upon his arrival here hero to toI tola to- to I la When Then the earthquake oc- oc he was living I at his me J mIl from the tho American em- em lassy assy In Tokio and during the tho thor r js that followed was assigned o 0 directing the relief relict work for tor the tho theOr or of ot the tho two destroyed I S. S ajor ajor story is a a. tale taie f and desolation with 34 the tile heroic action of ot the Japa- Japa i people stan standing out as a 0 1 ht spot in the picture of mis mis' misu Q He lie explained that very little motion wa was wag shown by the people the fact that dead bodies ye yere laying Jammed in layers three C ix feet deep Fathers who had children sweethearts who I ial lost their lovers mothers who husband and md children acta act act- Ci a Imly Some sought the refuge If f fK ne no or two churches hurches that were standing clapped their hands h hr a a penny at Buddha and n ed ell but through it all the Japa- Japa people bore theirs their grief an and With little demonstration of ot ote e C ng ag EYEWITNESS ri eyewitness o of the Major Wit sell told his own y which illustrates hundreds titers that have han come cone from the district lie was eating boon lioon with hi his hii wife Ife in ln n his home hom okio at noon on September t 1 r the first quake quate occurred Illse Hise His Ills e family was thrown flat fiat to floor and and walls buckled anda and a away outward Managing I some effort effot to reach the door I II I lug ug his family out and took it I IQ Q 0 bamboo grove greve ve in the tho vicinity f I ills us home l second shock c C. one and one half minutes I t tho the tho first an an was the tho most ero re of ot the two I Itsell left his big wife witt arid and children f made mado his way over th the o 0 rad 1 l streets to the American I 01 ass assy It had not collapsed buth but Ii h tire fire was only one block away his arrival Re He was forced to tour tour ur jur to again reach leach his h home me 1 he ho did shortly after 6 C o'clock Ight Vor ol three three days daY and ts ta he and aid other members member of h 11 od in the bamboo bambo en n W mosquito as Imitation During those three a the fire raged continuously on on the tho second da day oil that badel bad had el floated on the bay caught fire I n 11 the Uie entire tire hay bay gave the ap- ap eo ea t nce of or being being- ablaze DEAD ic Wheel I Iwas was assigned to duty of 1 of the tho Am Americans and other I 0 liners at the Imperial hotel on onI I ember 4 4 It was during this that actually saw aw the tho of the earthquake He lIe Coined tha that thai families threw up odes abodes with thousands of a land and nd d cham-d bodies s laying near neara I I B a soon as possible relief relict work work- r were organized od and the tho dead 0 s 5 piled together and lain aln view of ot the people who unperturbed The Tho Impressions had boon been so 0 much V jell ell elt that new and harrowing m did not affect tho Jap- Jap nto mind S Itsell explained that by Septem- Septem C 4 4 the tho relief patrol patro had report- report d the state stale department at atash Wash ash ii 11 n n that 1300 Americans had identified alive and that four gl four ty-four had b been n identified as asa a a. a E EW ESCAPE DEATH 7 o earthquake struck Yokohama o 0 I o 0 than it did Hd Tokio Witsell a ad d Tho The former city he said was wasil es il rOyed o cd entirely during tho the artIOn art aft of September 1 1 All An but ten r io o persons In the tho Grand hoI horl ho- ho rl IOn I vero ero killed when tho the o 0 a heed Sel The United States naval tel Hal toppled over and ant rolled o oi Ital the bluff on which it stood American consulate consulato was do doted do- do ted and nd tho the American consul and two vice Ice were i I killed along with a great t number of Japanese notables Only about persons remain In Yokohama and only about of or the two million persons r remain maln malnin in Tokio Witsell explained They are afraid that Tokio will sink emit and only the tho courageous and the tho are remaining in the tho tit cit cU- cU lea les Directly after and during the earthquake he explained that persons left Tokio Major Witsell said that every ery known Korean In Tokio Toldo was killed an and ever every Chinaman was forced to totlee flee fleo after the tho disaster in order to save savo their lives lie He added that the Japanese believed that tho ho Koreans and the Chinese were going to capture capture cap cap- ture turo Tokio and Yokohama and made every effort eUort to rid the tho country of or these two populations Major Witsell will be bo stationed at Fort Douglas He lie arrived hero here yesterday yes yes- S- S erday his wife and two chil chil- Oron dren Barbara and I Edward dward Jr both bothof of whom are able to converse only in tho the J Japanese language |