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Show Japan Survivors Tell Vivid Tales of Ruin Done by Earthquake funds. la tha drat tabulation today, baaed on tbo Incomplete reports from eheptera, the total waa neerlng the half way mark of tho Is.Ooo.oott minimum aoughu Commitments amounting to ft, Ol.&OO had been made by the organisation or-ganisation for tha purchase or food, niedloai supplies and clothing to be shipped without delay. INDUSTRIAL CENTS' ' OUTSIOS WORST ZONK NAGASAKI. Sept. t (By A. P.) Considerable anxiety - la felt everywhere regarding the economic oonsequencea of tha earthquake, but one raaasuring fact la that Osaka, aa Important lnduatria.1 center, la ouUlde tha sooe of disaster. weeding bankers hers are op flails fl-ails tio aa to tha ability of the Japanese banks to meet all their obllaatlone, provided no alarming rumora disturb confidence. There Is at present ao aiga of aueh alarmist reports. Tho principal Toklo bank will today pay from lie to 14u ae-oownte ae-oownte not exceeding lea yon each. Tho Bank of Japan la ready to aaalst to tho maximum any bask aa which a run la made today. ONLV FOUR CSCAPS AS HOTEL. COLLAPSIS. PEKIN, Sept. S (By A. p.) A French news dispatch from knhe aaya Lou I a Cotte. manaaer of the Oriental 1-alaeo hotel at Yokohama and alt of the hotel'e guests ex.-ept four were killed In the enrtrvninn. The dispatch also said that Mnrnr Itchome Mlnalo-ChO was burned to death. Hugh Horns, commercial secretary secre-tary of tha British ambaaay at Toklo, la reported dead. Mountain Displaced and Bathers Swept Out te Sea by Huge Wares; Hotel. Are Hit Hard ' By the Associated Press ) Stories sf mountains that slide Into their valleys, of hugs waves that swept seaward hundreds of ocean bathers at sosst resorts, of a , Yokohama hotel that literally sank into tha earth" and of other asea tacular Inmdenta wltneeeed by aur-vlvora aur-vlvora of tho great disaster ara being be-ing given to the world as communication communi-cation in and out of Japan Is gradually grad-ually restored. The Toklo w respondent of the Chicago Tribune, reaching Kobe, aaya 600 foreigners were killed la Yokohama; tha earthquakes and firs left tha foreign residential sections sec-tions a ruin; dead bodies were everywhere when tho flames had passed. Tha hotels of ths port city ware obliterated. Of the 100 guests In the Oriental Palaos hotel only a few eecaped. The United club, the Court, Cherry Mount and Bluff hotels also wars wrecked with loee of life. Ths last throe, situated on the hoighta, toppled Into ths ruins at tha base of tho bluff. MANY SLIDES OCCUR. Thomae D. Cochrane, an American Ameri-can motion picture man, was at Ml-yano Ml-yano 8hlta, a mountain resort, with hla family when the fleet quakes came. Great slides sseurred In the mountalna, ha aald; ruade ' were wiped out: houses demolished. In Toklo Ili.OOS persons are without with-out shelter, but order prevails. There are ns further rumors of cholera. The loss of Ufa la ths capital waa not aa large as flret reported," according ac-cording to the flret meeoago aent over the reeetabliahed Tokto-Kobe Una Probably lO.vo people loot their llvee. in ino uptown socuoo, hoot of which was spared. London hears that ths number of foreign dead will approximate 100 and that half of this number are British. Secretary Hoover believes that material losses In Japan have been greatly overestimated and says It le absurd to say that ths damage WIN amount to five billions of dollara. Mr. Hoover points out that the principal prin-cipal deet ruction was to commercial organlsstloaa la Toklo and Yokohama, Yoko-hama, and that labor, agrteultura, factory eapeolty sad arganlaatlon thiwugthow see eawsOrs - have net been Impaired. The principal material ma-terial loaa, hs aaya, has been to distribution. dis-tribution. Weeelw helS Ahe tS SOB 000 OttOtS. which lbs Amor loan Med Cress set aa Its goal, has been raised. YOKOHAMA POREION ',' ' DEAD PLACED AT 200. WASHINOTOrf, Bept. I Two hundred foreigner were killed at Yokohama, according to the navy department' first d l root word from that port., received In two messages from Admiral Anderson, commander In chief of the Asiatic fleet. One hundred aad thirty forelga refugees, refu-gees, moat sf them Americans and Englishmen, he reported, were at Hakone, aad ethers war arriving at Kobe. - One of ths messages, dated at noon Friday, reporting the arrival , of hi flagship, the Huron, the preceding pre-ceding day,- and tho other, containing contain-ing Information relative to casusl-tiea casusl-tiea apparently beard prior to hla nival In Yokohama, was timed ; I: IT p. m. September I. Confirmed , reports of the death of Count Kar- , jaasoff and wife and of Vice Consul , Jenke and also reported O. Babbitt. . s sate taut oommorciet attache at j Toklo, dead. Babbitt. In other ad- , vices, has beea reported alive one , from Consul Lie via at Shanghai yes- . terday saying he had arrived . at ; Yokohama. Hope that Admiral Anderson's la- , formation relative to ths fats of , u - k.ki.. mm tiinia Wee as- . pressed at the department of commerce com-merce where a cablegram dated September was received yeeterday from the commercial attache at Shanghai, reporting him safe. He waa Identified In the department' rroorde as Klwood O. Babbitt of San Frsnclace and waa aald to have had hla wife snd two daughters with him In Japan. Ho was officially aa-algned aa-algned as the acting summsrclsl attache at-tache In Toklo. HALS' OF RELIEF FUND SUBSCRIBED. WASHINGTON, Sept. t. As tho American Red Cross pressed forwent for-went relief measures todey for the Japanese earthquake sufferers, the nation continued to awell ita relief |