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Show JAPANESE KILLED BY EARTHQUAKE SERIOUS DISTURBANCE IN CENTRAL CEN-TRAL JAPAN CAUSES LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. 1 The Dead Is Said to Number Thirty. While Many Were Injured, Hundreds Hun-dreds of Buildings Being Destroyed De-stroyed or Damaged. I Tokio. Reports received concerning concern-ing the earthquake in central Japan on Saturday show that there 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 be greatly increased in the outlying districts when heard from. The number of persons injured is 82. Thus' far 362 buildings, including many temples, are reported to have been destroyed and more than 1,000 ethers badly damaged. The shock occurred at 3:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon and affected a wide area in the Shiga and Gifu prefectures. pre-fectures. The town of Ozaku in Gifu suffered terribly. The banks of the Hida river there broke and the country coun-try was inundated. The people of the district fled to higher ground and remained re-mained in the open all night. Intermittent Inter-mittent shocks were felt throughout Saturday night and early Sunday morning. The mountain Ibukl. a short distance west of Gifu, emitted smoke in the early stages of the earthquake and then collapsed with a thunderous roar. Slight damage was done at Nagoy. to the southward of Gifu, and neighboring neigh-boring villages. |