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Show VOLCANO'S TOLL OEfiGtiES 10 10b BUDDEN ERUPTION OF INACTIVE MOUNTAIN IN JAPAN BURIES BUR-IES TOWNS IN MUD One Hundred Bodies Located; Many Injured; Rumblings Give Warn; Ing; Two Miles of Railway Is Destroyed Tokyo. A mountain lake, released by an eruption from a long inactive olcano crater, caused the greater part of the death and destruction which followed fol-lowed the resumption of activity in Mt. Tokachi, in central Hokkaido, northernmost north-ernmost of the principal islands of Japan. Ja-pan. The governor of Hokkaido reported to the homo minister that 100 dead and more than 200 injured had been removed from the mass of mud and lava rocks precipitated from the long slumbering crater. Besides these about 1000 farmers of the newly opened but rapidly dovelopnig agricultural district dis-trict around the mountain are missing and it is impossible to tell how many of these may have been buried alive in the floods of water and mud. The peasants of the Tokachi district dis-trict were without warning, for on May 4 the moribund volcano began rumbling, and many fled from the region. re-gion. Tuesday came three violent eruptions, erup-tions, tearing out the crater walls and allowing the lake to pour through the Bides of the mountain, inundating several sev-eral villages, drowning villagers and covering 10,000 acres of rice fields with mud. Landslides on the steep elopes added to the toll of destruction. Relief measures are under way. Two hundred doctors and nurses are attending at-tending the injured, while S00 members mem-bers of the local young men's association, associa-tion, a nation-wide organization, are as-iisting. Two miles of the Kushiro railway, running west of the mountain, have been destroyed. Hokkaido dispatches describe the region of the castrophe as .iterally a sea of mud. Mount Tokachi is one of the highest of a volcano chain running through Hokkaido island, most of the peaks of vhich are known sa dying volcanos of Vezo or Hokkaido, |
