Show kUl the halh rent pitr and or lif and SAN FRANCISCO aug 18 the steamer city of sidney from hong kong and yokohama chith arrived this eenink was expected to bring details of the at kumamoto the first news of which was cabled from yokohama oo 00 july 50 one cablegram gave the loss of life as another stated that almost the entire town of kumamoto with a population of w as destroyed full details had cot been received when the city of sydney baided bailed from yokohama bat the newspaper of that city of aug ad indicates indica tec no buch losses as given by cabin several lute telegrams from yokohama gave the loss at from 20 to 30 billed A japan newspaper newe paper says however that by the great earthquake at kamamoto on the alth of july many hills have teen rent houses demolished moli shed and people killed and v aund ed in the city independent of the villages another choik has been felt and the inhabitants are fearing further disaster the people have been seized with on account of the hilla being broken open the floods having subsided in several districts of japan a fairly accurate estimate of the damage done is obtained hine hundred aud thirty houses ft ere destroyed by being washed away or broken up by colliding together forty one persona are known to have boet loet their lives the overland china mall learns that on july 6 the rioters in the fo hien province of china fled before the approach of the troops before leaving however they burned their boat |