Show SUFFERS SHOCK DAMAGE SAID TO OUTRIVAL IN INTENSITY GREAT DISASTER THERE IN 1923 one hundred reported dead and a nd twenty thousand loft left homeless property loss not yet estimated boklo bellef organizations are arc working in the santa district of hyogo prefecture northwest of osaka where considerable damage was wrought by one of the most moat severe earthquakes felt in this territory I 1 in n ninny many years the tremor it it Is said outrivaled outrival out rivaled eJ in local intensity tho the disastrous boklo yokohama earthquake ot of september 1923 special trains carrying physicians nurses and supplies were being rushed to the devastated district from osaka it Is estimated th alio 0 injured number about 1000 early estimates said bald tho dead would not exceed but have been made homeless honio leae by the tremor and the tires fires which followed tho the tremblers ers ors continued in the osaka district for ton ten minutes and the populace la Is in a panicky pani elcy state shortly before midnight tokia was shaken by a distinct earth shock chock which caused no damage according accord lUK to available reports tho the earthquake centered at fifty miles from osaka all lines of communication into tile tho stricken district are down trains were wrecked and in the absence ot of reports from one passenger train it was feared it had been engulfed chuu a tunnel on the railroad lone collapsed fear was also felt tor for kaniv miners reported mohave been trapped underground when the great silver mine the largest in japan was damaged by the trembler A fleet of airplanes sent out front from osaka over tile the prefecture reported great fires were still raging the city of toyo oka which has IL population of was reported halt half in ruins while tile tho nearby near noar by towns of Kino sald where famous lot hot springs are located and were said to bo be totally destroyed forest fires wore were started and ships endeavoring to give aid to the homeless at were unable to make landings because of the fierceness of tile the flames the first shock came at 1108 in the tha morning and it was felt in osaka kobe hobe kyoto nagoya nara and other towns la in the kwan sal oat region as far as as aa well as aa in the province of tajima where the shock chock centered mount a famous volcano was reported in erupi erudition tion coincident with the earthquake and crop damage was caused by a rain of ashes from its crater according to advices advises reaching here froza from the lie earthquake zone public buildings of toyo oka including the and railroad station were razed by the earthquake shock and fire breaking out almost simultaneously quickly swept through the business district water malas mains were broken by the quake |