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Show FLAMES Aim FLO " ' reduce Yonoi-:rr : AND TOE ilO TO R L" . . ; Lot of Life ii r 'i cf Nation't Trirc' I C Now E!'mal;J ii I.'.t Leu Than FINANCIAL LC'Z HLLDi;,ZSi;;:A:Ln Lo of Life i.i Yc' t Alone Tlaced at 1C w Thousand Face L" From Star ratio:! OSAKA, Etpt. 3 (Tj A. r ) -The minister of rri' , . f itimatod the fta'.. i i i tha earthquake ni ja Toklo alone at 1I3,C3. OSAKA, Japan, Sept. I (By t P.) More than two hundred thousand thou-sand Uvea are now feared to hv been loet In the greatest dla r of Japanese hletory. when earth-quakee, earth-quakee, fire and floods destroys) Toklo nd Tokohama Bsturdsy. One hundred thousand were k -4 In- th capital, accojding to !it report by airplane, and a like number Is believed to have p'ruhrd In the port city of ToimbsT. , Aside from the terrible t. .11 of Uvea, Japan has been s.t back a generation by the disaster, the Osska aislnlchl eays. The financisl lose f'nm tl.e earthquakes hlrh th-- dnn many of the fineet . -n sm ;r-tures ;r-tures of the rmoi. , -)r .,.1 bridges, tunnels, in..... .... ,- luring plants. hnt,s -I r- - . i and from the fn-s . h t. l end are etill rerir-r beyond c i . hee been Inest mirti. e. WILL LOSS PLACf. Jspsn will 1' -e her r" i m fourth power ' " te Ing to t ' . Country t ,, r i 1 rie l,i...i r nip': ii " r,. . i . , Of the S'Oligst t.. . yc-- y ai e rum The countrs rn..rtur'-; g interests in-terests ere b.'-i. Financially td from the 'v. Point of loss of h'imen l!?e t- . . -aster la consioersd tne gr.i..t lit Japan's hintory. A meaense esye the entire . 1 of Rnoshiina. off the J.ri.M-e coeat, aank Into tha aea dun g the eartnquaae. TOKIO CFVTTfi, BOILDlNuS UTFiuYE0. OSAKA. ept. (B, A ri Tleutenant lehiris. who ' . jr nv.r Toklo and the etiirkert , an airplane yealerrtey, r , j to the commander of t e division thet the Jmner ,- was only partially dm-d. Toklo Itself S devaaiated wl'h the esceptlon of I'snirome ward, 'part of Koishlsawa ward, prsc-tlcelly prsc-tlcelly the whole of Tetsuya w.id and the north aide of Ayimi.i.ri. Nearly all the concrete and pri it bulldlnaa collapsed. iksr - a wsrd ward waa flooded by u.. viva Tha airman said It ws d"innt to fly over the capful at a he.s t eultable for obeervatlon bMii of the Intensity of the Mamea and the euffocatlng amoke. REFUQEES THRON0 PALACE. The Imperial palace baa been thrown open for refugeee. Nothing Is known ss to ths safety safe-ty of the foreign diplomatic repre-aentatlvea repre-aentatlvea and there le no newe concerning the many foreign residents. resi-dents. ' Ths lataat estimate of eee"lt-. la Tokohama alone eiceede luw v . ' Reports from Yokohama ssr th.t the damaaa to buildings In ths foreign for-eign aetciement baa been parthu. lariy aerloua The specie bank and th Grand hotel la that city, have ' been demolished While the cap! Lai of tha empire burned, the new premier. Yema-moto, Yema-moto, hastened tba work of form. Ing bla new ceblnet and varloua report re-port stat that the new government govern-ment waa officially Installed laat evening. MARTIAL LAW. After tho final meeting of tb mlnlstsrs yeeterday. acting Premier Uchlda decided upon tbe promulgation promul-gation of martial law, tbe emer. gency ejommandeoring act and the eetabllshor.ent of a relief bureau. . It la reported that martial taw has been eatended to Tokohama. - Ail market throughout Japan have been closed. The terrible pllxht of the population popu-lation In Toklo and Tokohama la , graphically depicted In the varlou newspaper dlanetche received here. 8 acuta has ihe food shortage become be-come In the capital that the bun- -fry people have been tn mg u - (Continued oa peg ) la a falling nous 'at Kmkurs according to a wireless dispatch today. to-day. Prlnco Watbukata was fatally, in-jured, in-jured, th ni.g otatod, 7OAJM00D "' . ' ' '.d (Continued from Pag 1.) " catch the carp in the pond at Hl-, Hl-, Mya park. RICE NEEDED. It la eetlmated that at least 18 tana of rtc are needed In Toklo alone. The quantity actually available avail-able can not ba determined a tha fir ba destroyed . considerable stork. The authorities are making (real efforia to collect 'supplies to ship to Toklo. Meanwhile tha price of rloe la sdvsnclng. So sxtenslvs la tha Toklo disaster that It Is poeelbte tha national capital may b transferred temporarily tempo-rarily to Kyoto or to this city. The prince regent is taking a leading hand tn tha relief work and haa refused to rest. H ha given order that tha Imperial palacea may ba thrown opaa for tha refu- ' '' ORGANIZE TO RAISE ' FUND FOR STRICKEN. SANTA BARBARA CaL Best A (roup of prominent resident of Santa Barbara headed by Colonel Charles H. Uravae. formerly American Amer-ican mtaleter to Sweden, organised today to raise funds for the auffer-ara auffer-ara from the earthquake In Japan. AMERICAN DESTROYER ! START FOR YOKOHAMA. PEKIff, Sept. I (By A. P.)-"-An American deetroyer left Chefoo thla morning "for Yokohama" with provisions pro-visions and medical auppll. Other craft are following. EUROPEANS TAKEN ABOARD STEAMER. , BAN FRANCISCO. Sept I Many Injured and homeless Europeans Euro-peans were taken aboard tha passenger pas-senger etramer Oongola at Yokohama Yoko-hama today, message to the Radio corporation of America, from tba Tamloka wireless station aaid. Tha Dongola. of Olaagow registry, regis-try, I owned by London firm. Tha message aaid the craw of the ahlp escaped uninjured, although in tha path of tha tidal wave and earthquake. earth-quake. ' Tha Korea Mara, alas wirelessed through Tamioka that It waa held at Yokohama and would ba unable to clear port tor several days Tha 'meesags did not Include wJielher tha Maru was damaged or unable to elear because of catastrophe condition. METHODIST CMUBCH AND SALVATION ARMY OIVB. CHICAGO. Sept. Author! Uee of the board of missions of the MethnolM Eplecopal church cabled 1A,00 and the Salvation Army cabled 15000 to thalr rasreeentatlve In Japan for Immediate relief In connection with the disaster occasioned occa-sioned by arthquak and fir. JAP AN I8t BCD CBOSS , WELL, EQUIPPED. , . BAN I-RANCISCO, SpL a Th Red Cross society of Japan, oa which It appear th major portion ol tn relief work incident to .last Saturday's earthquake and fir, will 'fall I a wall equipped and aetiv organization. It wa founded la I7I. . During tba Europe war tho-society dispatched three relief eerp each to Enaiand. Russia and Franc, thl belne th tint Urn that Japan extended her phUanthropI work to Europe. Th alek and wounded who were received In headquarters at Vladivostok by th yar and. Itlt, totaled 1.0. - The lateot etatiatle atiow that the eociety uprvlses sixteen hospitals hos-pitals haa two hoapltM ship. lti medical corps, 101 doctor and pharmacists phar-macists and nurse and helper. Th total membership of the society so-ciety was l.OOf.llI Includln for-elsners. for-elsners. Ths society szpendsd In mo-lltl yen .17.4. It ha property prop-erty as.ed at yen tl.IS.47T. ' The honorary president I Ml Hlrhneee Marshal Prince Kania Tha chairman and vtc chairman of th eommltts are Mr. N. Hlrayama and Marqula Kunlnori Tokuawa, respectively. re-spectively. - STEAMER UNABLE TO LEAVE YOKOHAMA ' SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. X A wireless ww received from th Korea Ko-rea Mara which atated that It waa unable to 'sail from Yokohama and waa unable to tall Ita date of departure.- -. Whether thla means that the Korea Ko-rea la at Yokohama la not known. She la acheduled to have been in tha nelirhborhood of that port a( about the tlm of the earthquake. FLORENCE. Italy. Sept. S (By A. f.) Selamle Instruments her recorded re-corded another atrons- and distant earthquake, it la not yet poeelble to ascertain th dlstsnoe of the tremors, a th record waa made in a epeotal form on th Instruments. ST. LOUIS. M. Sept. S (By U. p.) A alujht earthquake tremor, apparently about 1000 mfle distant, dis-tant, waa recorded on tha St. Louis university- Mlamorraph durtnc tha nlerht. JAPANESE ROYALTY KILLED IN CRASH. PEK1N Sept. I (By U. P.) Prince Yanaehlna and th mother of Prince Kara nomlya were killed |