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Show II JAPANESEllLLEO " By EARTHQUAKE SERIOUS DISTURBANCE IN CEN- TRAL JAPAN CAUSES LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. The Dead Is Said to Number Thirty, While Many Were Injured, Hundreds Hun-dreds of Buildings Being De-stroyed De-stroyed or Damaged. Toklo. Reports received concerning concern-ing the earthquake In central Japan on Saturday show that thero was a number of fatalities and that great damage was done to property. The dead at present Is said to number thirty, though it Is feared that the fatalities fa-talities will bo greatly Increased in the outlying districts when heard from. The number of persons Injured la 82. Thus far 3C2 buildings, Including many temples, are reported to have been destroyed and moro than 1,000 others badly damaged. -The shock occurred at 3: HO o'clock Saturday afternoon and affected a wldo area In the Shiga and Glfu prefectures. pre-fectures. Tho town of Ozaku In Glfu suffered terribly. The banks of tho Hlda river there broke und tho country coun-try was Inundated. The pooplo of the district Hod to higher ground and re- malned In tho open all night. Intermittent Inter-mittent shocks wero felt throughout Saturday night and early Sunday morning. Tho mountain Ibukl. a short diHtanco west of Glfu, emitted smoko in tho early stages of tho earthquake and then collapsed with a thunderous roar. Slight damage was done at Nngoy, to tho southward of Glfu, and neighboring neigh-boring villages. |