Show FIRE CAUSES rl LD I Osaka Japan Aug ug 1 50 p m Confusion still llIs here Mi as a re ie suIt stilt of Saturdays fire of persons persons are arc homeless and facing hunger A system of relief has heen hecim organ organIzed organIzed b by lIme but bul II is Inadequate to nil all needs needa Outside cities and tons are goner genor sending In contrIbutions to he heus us used d In all alleviatIng sufferings of oC time the homeless and destitute I rho rhe number of ca casualties has not I yet et bee 11 determIned hut but hundreds of J Injured d are crow crowding ln the hospitals The latest estimates are that two ty thousand buIldings were destroy eti ed these Including banks stock ox ex change museum government edIfices and factories While at II Is to state the losses the these c are arc given Ien roughlY at s sev v vernl million yen ren It hum 18 feared that nce companies wIll fall fali fallas as n a result of heavy losses they will laI to pay Time The conflagration lasted moro more than I 25 hours hour In the burned section Sl streets are narrow nut houses were cas easy pre prey for time the flumes flames which from one to another with rapid II fly Once hope was almost abandon abandoned ed that time the could be arrested Th Time firemen fought val I lanthy agaInst the odds of if lick 1 of I water and high wind anti and many fell while Will Ic wor working ing Had not I the tue water vater supply been heen b by tIme the existing drought It Is belIeved the fire would have been quenched without great damage The greatest conCu slon prevaIled among workIng girls gIrl gIrlin in iii the factory quarter hut htmL no loss of life resulted thole Property of who were cre able ablo 1 to save san from their burning homes are arc in great heaps along the tracks of Osaka to Kobe where they were wre carl early Sat Saturday urda when the tire fire broke out At Saturday thousands of persons heavily laden with house hold hoid effects fled across time the numerous canal canai bridges and away from tho Ire fire zone When they thoy ha had reached safety safet time the burdens were laId down md and ahl abl bodied members of families returned to the city to lo assist In fighting the flames leavIng the old people to their effects All Saturday and far into time the night time the male ion the firemen and the troops lii In fIghting the An area moro more than miles square containing somo of oC the handsomest structures Including the tho tem temple le the largest In the world was burned over oer he be before fore the fire was brought tinder con control control Time Tho stock exchange one of the tho most Important In this count was WaR entirely destroyed This loss It is I will wili tend greatly to dislocate the business of Osaka which with Its I manufacturing concerns Is one of the chief commercial cities of Japan I Women were cn b by the tho t fire anti and fled anti and thither wIth their children some of whom hom crying for foo food that could not be oh ob obtained tamed for them Time Thc emperor is deeply concerned over the disaster and It Is believed lint he will mal make c a generous dona donation I Ilion lion tion to the relIef reller fund and ad that hIs action I Iii be quickly quick I followed b by gifts from charitable people anti and iu In I |