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Show VOWS TOLL I REACHES- TO 111 SUDDEN ERUPTION OF INACTIVE MOUNTAIN IN JAPAN BURIES BUR-IES TOWNS IN MUD One Hundred Bodies Located; Many Injured; Rumblings Give Warning; Warn-ing; Two Miles of Railway Is Destroyed Tokyo A mountain lake, released by an eruption from a long inactive volcano crater, caused the greater part of the death and destruction whiah fol-fiio fol-fiio i-osiimntion of activity in Jit. Tokachi, in central Hokkaido, northernmost north-ernmost of the principal islands o Japan. Ja-pan. The governor of Hokkaido reported to the home minister that 100 dead and more than 200 injured had been removed from the mass of mud and lava rocks precipitated from the long slumbering crater. Besides these about 1000 farmers of the newly opened but rapidly developnig agricultural district dis-trict around the mountain are missing and it is impossible to tell how many of these may have been buried alive in the floods of water and mud. The peasants of the Tokachi district dis-trict were without warning, for on May 4 the moribund volcano began rumbling, and many fled from the region. re-gion. Tuesday came three violent eruptions, erup-tions, tearing out the crater walls and allowing the lake to pour through the Bides of the mountain, inundating several sev-eral villages, drowning villagers and covering 10,000 acres of rice fields with mud. Landslides on the steep slopes added to the toll of destruction. 1 ti;f nncuvoc arp under wav. Two hundred doctors and nurses are attending at-tending the injured, while S00 members mem-bers of the local young men's association, associa-tion, a nation-wide organization, are assisting. Two miles of the Kushiro railway, running west of the mountain, have been destroyed. Hokkaido dispatches describe the region of the castrophe as literally a sea of mud. Mount Tokachi Is one of the highest ot a volcano chain running through Hokkaido island, most of the peaks of vhich are known sa dying volcanos of Vfezo or Hokkaido. |
