Show EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN The rile following narrative c cf the recen recent t earthquake in its Japan by a Sal Salt t Lake man appeared in ill Fridays Friday's Herald Her Her- aid ild YOKOHAMA Japan lapan No Nov 10 ro 1891 Sp Special cial correspondence p rd nc of the Herald Eleven days dasin in Japan Japao can give no on on onn one e tin n intelligent lent view of one of the most mos et t countries which rounds ou our 7 changing hanging earth but it itcan can give the coldly coldly cold cold- ly y true tine facts in regard to the ml must most st disastrous disastrous dis dis- earthquake that has occure d mong these islands during the last thin thirty v s seven even years Our ship had arrived in the bay whet t the he first tremor the passengers passengers gers were not landed till the next morn mon ink ng M Must St of th thorn tham m had retired for ih th the e night and md the half dozen duzen including you your r correspondent who remained chattin al ac d sot king on deck observed no tremar tremor tre tremar mar mor 01 oa For Vor some reason son th the e Japanese expected a seismic disaster t befall the country on or about his m majesty's ma ma- 1 jesty's esty's birthday November r 3 3 Th he e I c as exper experienced in Yokohama ma am and Tokio w ores is darning IMming and altho although gh las last last- ast- ast ins illg three minutes little tittle real damage wa was duce done iu in those thos lowns lawns the smoke stack o of the electric light works and a dodow warehouse being the total damage ge in Fc Yokohama unless s I may mention such trifles as the g gold ld fish ish in garden gaiden pools bein being tossed on to lo surrounding bc brinks banks Tn Lt Tokio the capital pital NINETEEN SHOCKS WERE FELT The full force once of the earthquake quake on an this island nd was felt at Aichi and about two hundred d miles distant s situated situa tua- tua te ted on au the south coast and th there re the effects were wre appalling while only today have the full particulars been Deen reached About a. a m. m a rumbling n noise is was heard wh winch which ch was wao almost simultaneously followed by a shock shuck maki making lg the earth open upen in many directions and caus caus- causing causing ing big houses to fall falUn in in every q and shrieks from the terrified the dying and the wl wounded filling the pile air The violence of the shaking app appears ars to have caused everyone to feel as sick as if jf on onboard n board boardl a vessel in its a storm tossed sea sea Most of the houses in are very old i grid arid those which withstood withstand the first shock yi yielded at the second or third Th The rhe e cracks in tie tae e ground where the earth is s hard are art only where the ground is soft sott the thc openings are aie very long and many feet in width muddy water be being ng r emitted from them in all cases The water in wells was changed t to a brown color and unfit for drinking The number num ber berof of wounded was simply unaccountable unaccountable able and it w was s to see them hem being carted away to the hospitals Must Most o of i the homel hornet ss people are camping out in its publiC parks park many without suitable clothing clouting and the food feud is limited RESEMBLES A BATTLEFIELD or ora a bombarded town potent the only large Jarg building left standing are area a few schools a newspaper and a post and telegraph office The Japanese houses being invariably invariably invariably in in- in- in variably of wood suffered less than European that wood includes American I m In these letters lappets The was very acute and seems to have followed a course alone along the coast from Osaka to Kobe The shuck shock at the latter place was felt on the ships ly lying ng in the harbor barbor the captain of the Marquis of Lome Lorne saw two 1 small waves approaching his vessel and the shock hod was incident co-incident co with their striking it At Osaka the chief force furce of the wave appears to have ha spent itself though as the city is built on alluvial soil the serious nature of the visitation Is surprising The streets were thron thronged ed with watt spectators coming from or going to the scene of the disa disaster ter Some Sonic were relatives whose cheeks or eyes ees betrayed their loss while all spoke in awed tones remarkably contrasting with Japanese wonted vivacity vivacity There were yuo people at work in one mill mil when the shock hock came and the walls tell fell burying under tons tins of brick and plaster the numerous unfortunate victims I It t thundered through the first and sec second nd floors carrying away all o of one side and an anthe a the roof There piled pried up in confusion were cording and spinning s and human bodies in one indescribable se mass mas The cries of the wounded th the e V I 4 r c jr shout f of anxious I completed the spectacle only less mo mournful than that which was present presented pre pre- s sent d a moment later when relatives p pale ale faced mothers and weeping children sought lo to recognize or identify the bat battered battered COI corpses laid out in the drying room their ghastly features feature some crushed beyond recognition looking more sickening sickening sick sick- c ening in their tattered while rags andover and andover andover over all nIl was the hush the awe and the solemnity of If death The loss of life is estimated d carefully at G. 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