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Show "" . mm UK SHOOK ELEVEN MINUTES Earthquake at Yokohama Causes One Death and Much Damage to Property. Not 8lnce the Great Disaster In ttio Qlfu District, In 1885, Hat Yokohama Yoko-hama Been to Severely Shaken Up. Victoria, B. C. Dotails of tho worst of tho many earthquakes folt In Yokohama Yo-kohama and vicinity slnco tho dlsas-tor dlsas-tor of fourteen years ago, when a so-Voro so-Voro shock occurrod, 'woro brought nero by tho steamer Kaga Maru, which arrived from tho Orlont on Thursday. Thero was llttlo loss ot life, however, ono Chinese boy only being killed and n. Japaneso and his wife fatally injured. For oloven minutes nnd eight seconds sec-onds Yokohama's buildings Bhook nnd considerable damago was done. He-ports He-ports from Toklo, Azabu and other places show that much damago without with-out loss ot Ilfo occurred. Not since the great disaster In tho Glfu district in 1885, when tho destruction de-struction was immense and 20,000 lives wore lost, had Yokohama been so soveroly shaken. .There was considerable con-siderable excitement and peoplo ran from tho shaking houses. Tho greatest damage was dono on tho bluff, whoro tho foreign houses, Including many flno structures, aro located. Tho offlco buildings on tho Bund and In tho business section and tho mass of wattlod houses ot bamboo, bam-boo, mud nnd paper in tho Japaneso section oscapod with slighter Injury. Tho steamers In tho harbor woro all severely shaken. |