Show The Japanese Earthquake A letter leter from Japan gives details as follows of ot tho the earthquakes earthquakes there A severe prolonged shock of earthquake earth earth quake occurred October a few minutes min mm- utes before 7 o'clock In the tho morning It I was the most most severe experience since tho the terrible Catastrophe of 1855 1815 and must must be bo ranked as a national calamity The Tho greatest great geatI est damage tS td tl buildings and loss loss' of ld occurred occurred oc oc- l ih in tho prefectures Of f A Achy hy and in which nearly 40 were kl seriously wounded In these those two two prefectures houses were tot totally ly destroyed The n number of provinces provinces pro pro- pro provinces vinces throughout which the tho disturbances were strongly felt rel numbers thirty The center seems to have been beon In Minoa and and O war but bt even as far south as Hogl and in the n north rth the disturbance was sensibly felt felt Tho Tile destruction of 40 houses means people rendered homeless Up to November 5 the earthquakes earthquakes earth earth- quakes still c continued ti u d to to be felt but wih with intervals between them and gradually the tho Intensity of the shocks diminished From the tue th commencement of disturbance up to t present date it is i estimated that shocks or more mor than one to every two minutes minutes min mm utes were felt felt |