Show MAN SHOCK DAMAGE SAID TO OUTRIVAL IN INTENSITY GREAT DISASTER THERE IN N 1923 one hundred reported dead and twenty thousand Thoua and left homeless property lose lo 10 not yet estimated boklo bellef organizations are ara working in the sanin district dietrict of hy ogo prefecture northwest of osaka where considerable damage wal was wrought by one of the most severe earthquakes felt in this territory in many years the tremor it Is said outrivaled out rivaled in local intensity Into nalty the disastrous tokio earthquake 0 ot f september 1923 special trains carrying physicians nurses and supplies wore were being rushed to the devastated district from osaka it Is estimated the injured number about 1000 early estimates said the dead would not exceed but have been mado made homeless hom eless by the tremor and the fires w which aich followed the trem blora ors continued in the osaka district for ten minutes and the populace Is in a pani paricity city state shortly before midnight boklo was waa shaken by a distinct earth shock which caused no damage according to available reports the earthquake centered at tajima fifty miles from osaka all lines of communication into the stricken district are down trains were wrecked and in the absence of 0 reports from one passenger train it was waa feared it had bad been engulfed aheu a tunnel on the railroad lone collapsed fear was also felt for maew miners reported ported ro to have been trapped underground when the great silver mine the largest in japan was damaged ed by the A fleet of airplanes sent out from osaka over the hyogo prefecture reported great fires were still raging the city of toyo oka which has a population of was reported halt half in ruins while the nearby near by towns of Kin kidosaki osaki where famous hot springs are located and Tsi uyama were said to be totally destroyed forest tires fires were started and ships endeavoring to give aid to the homeless at were unable to make landings because of the fierceness of the flames the first shock came at 1108 in the morning and it was felt in osaka kobe kyoto nagoya nara and other towns in the kwan sat sal region as tar far as as well as in the province of tajima where tho the shock centered mount a famous volcano was reported in erupi erudition tion coincident with the tha earthquake and crop carnage damage was caused by a rain of ashes from its brator according to advices advises reaching here from the earthquake zone public buildings of toyo too oka including the postoffice post ottice office and railroad station were razed by the earthquake shock and tire fire breaking out almost simultaneously quickly swept through the bust business district water mains were broken by the quake |