Show S it 5 WIPED nUT S d Communication Halts Accurate Check of Casualties U. U S. S TOURIST DEAD Woman Succumbs to Shock and Immersion I lOTO Japan March 8 AP- AP Two thousand persons perished In Ia yesterdays yesterday's earthquake an offIcial announcement today said Officials of the observatory at Osaka say that as as' as far as western Japan l 1 conce concerned ned the quake was the severest since 18 1854 l. TOKIO Japan March r l h 8 i AJ Dispatches trickling in o er oer crippled crippled crip- crip pled telephone and tele telegraph aph lines Unes Indicate that the yesterdays yesterdays yesterday's yes yes- earthquake in central Japan Including both both dead a and d Injured may reach This figure however Is speculative ve and the Japanese home office asserts h a I S persons persons' Were l d d' d dand and sixty seven injured A telegram to the Hochi Shim Shim- bun from Kyoto gives police reports as authority for the statement that there were lOO 1000 casualties In and four other nearby villages winch were destroyed Refugees from l are swarming to the the snow covered railway lines In hope of trans trans- to some place where theY can find food and shelter Other small towns itt In the Tango district are suffering similarly Osaka and Kobe are quiet and business is proceeding as usual GLASGOW Scotland March S The AP-The Anchor line received a a. message toda stating that the woman passenger on the tourist steamer California who lost her life Ufe at Kobe during yesterdays yesterday's earthquake was Mrs Glen No other passengers hurt th the thes message es adds I Mrs I died f from Immersion Ira Ira- and shock She was thrown Into the water as she was returning to the ship George Prentice a st steward ward heroically attemptEd attempted at- at temptEd to save Rave her and suffered a slight injury to the mad head In diving ater her A stoker a seaman and a laundry laundry laun- laun dry maid were slightly sUg-hUy hurt The California was undamaged The name of Mrs Jessie Glenn appears on the list ot of aboard the California In Inthe inthe the records ot of Clarks Clark's Tours which arranged the California's Itinerary Her address Is given as Ventnor- Ventnor N. N J. J ATLANTIC CITY N N. N J. J March S 8 AP- AP AP Jessie Glen Schultz O her life during yesterdays yesterday's earthquake In Japan was 60 years of age aFe and had lived In Ventnor for the past laSt four or five years She was the widoW of the late Judge rudge Herbert Schultz of PhillIps PhillIps- burg J Her only known relatives reside in She had no children |