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Show SUn A n Y 0 DISASTER DEUASTAflOrTERfilDLE AN rRAJfCIBCO, Sept. t (By A. PJ Th. aluuoloa ia Janaa. raauU-Ing raauU-Ing from one of the greatest disasters dis-asters In history. disclosed by advleea from all sou rose up to this morning, la aa follows: , Estimated that at least 1 000 pereona are dead. - One report even gave thl flg-ur for Tokle' dead alone. . Hboeka, believed to b th "settling "set-tling shocks" af tha original temblor, tem-blor, wer recorded en Amerlcaa seismographs. Tidal with of great Intenaity followed the first shocks. Communication with J span continued con-tinued virtually paralyaed. Soma matter corning ut by cable trom aouthem Jepaneee ses ports, but moat of available laformatlon ams-netlng ams-netlng from Iwakl radio elation, 1(1 milea north of Tokio. Internal communication com-munication demoralised. Dtaastroua flree following' earth-ueke earth-ueke bellavad under control. Numerous structures af oenl or hletorio Interact, kaowa to tourist, dsetroyed, , PEAR, FOR AMIRICAN. Pear entertained for numerous Americana In Japan or ' on ehlpe either in Tobobama harbor or near It. - Nothing; ha been heard from any of thea ehlpe, though eeveral were large passenger liners (quipped with wlralaaa. ' Brltleh and American naval vee-aela vee-aela have been ordered te Japan to give any relief possible. Relief ehlpa have been started from other Japaaeee port to lotehtna. All Jepaneee. naval veaeela ordered to take up relief work. . Oeaka and Kobe Jointly ' voted MO.Me yen for reiletyrork. ' . Martial law daelarstl In Toklo and Tokobama and na one allowed to enter the former unlee he carriee his own food auppllee. Numerous valrann are reported In eruption. 100,000 HOU8CS WRICKED. Toklo Eight warde of the cltyV fifteen virtually wiped out. Including Includ-ing business and financial district! much damags elsewhere In city, water wa-ter euppjy failed, flree cauaed explosion ex-plosion In government areenel, killed eeveral thousands, estimated too,-to too,-to houeee burned or ehaksn down. Food and water lacking for thousands thou-sands of refugee . Tokobama Foreign sections and' th bualnee section wined out largely by fire; tene of thousends of guests. Including many foreisn-era. foreisn-era. at resort In -mountalna nearby. Eatlmabed 140 houses burned. Officer Offi-cer of one eteemer who landed reported re-ported "bodies scattered everywhere every-where ' Tokuk Tidal 1 wave wrecked many . government veaeela. much damage dona In town, whlcji la of TO.OO population. Klre reported broken out. Naval station engulfed by tidal wave, naval bulidinga and ehlpe deetroyed. - Iwagoya Population, IJ0 0O0; reported re-ported pre ctt rally destroyed. 8aeakoellx hundred reported perished In collapee railway tunnel. Oeaka Railroad . for hundred miles north torn up, many trains wrecked with many casual tie Ito More than too houaee washed away by tidal wave. Hakone At this famou mountain moun-tain resort It le aald to be easier te count llvlnr; thejj dead. Foreigners Foreign-ers frequented thle dietrlct. - Kamakura Aviator flying ever reported could not eee one house remaining upright. Onoahima "Firtur Island," reported re-ported eubmerged. . Oehlma Volcano emitting amok Odawara Hwept by tidal wave. |