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Show HOTELS TOPPLE OFF HIGH CLIFF AT JOKOHAMA SKIN, Sept. By U. .) Three betele in tha bluff reel-deneo reel-deneo didtriet af Vekehaeaa wara hurled ever allff by tha flrat tremendous " earth eheolt .here, and thair occupants daahad ta daath, aeeerdlne. ta an eye wrtnee af what Was per-hapa per-hapa tha moat Aecrlvi ' aingla Inaidant af tha quk disaeter. Only a faw pitifully mjored aurvlvora crawled f ram tha ruina, tha wltnaaa, Roderick O. Mathaaan, aarraapandant af tha Chicago Tribune, aald upon arrival ar-rival at Kobe. A majority af tha raaldanta af tha Muff diatriet aarlahad. The Oriental Palace betel waa almost awallewed up by the bjueke. ' It- disappeared Inte treat rant that epened euddenly In the heevlna earth until enly tha top story and a half remained visible above the found, a That caught fire. Casualties bare were terrible. Frantle ealle far help went unanswered aa the freeiuent ahocka and firee drove away would - be reeeuere. The French orphanage at Yekehama beuaad elxteen aia-tera aia-tera and 160 ahlldran, aaeardlnf to Matheeon. It went dawn, a heap af ruin. There were no survivor, . , . |