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Show WARSHIPS BRING F00DT0PE0PLE Large Stock of Supplies Freely Dispensed to Returning Kagoshima Refugees. GREAT PROPERTY LOSS Escape of 33 People From Sakura Miraculous Hid in Great Cave. Kagoshima, Japan, Jan. 15 Telegraphic Tele-graphic communication between this city and the north was restored tonight. to-night. The officers of the cruiser squadron squad-ron sent by the Japanese government have taken charge of the situation and are rapidly restoring a semblance of order along the water front. Many of the people of Kagoshlmi have returned to the city. All their houses are in ruins and the returning return-ing refugees are compelled to camp in the open spaces. The warships brought a large stock of food and supplies, which are being freely dispensed. The property loss in this city is immense. The clearing away of ashes ash-es and debris has not gone far enough to allow even an estimate of the loss of human life. A group of thirty-three refugees was rescued from amid a great waste of steaming lava at the foot of the volcano of Sakura-Jima today. Their etcape was little short of miraculous. With their rescue no liing being re mains, so far as known on the entire island of Sakura. Among the rescued was a school master, who had borne with him from his school house the portrait of the Emperor; the village policeman, who had saved the records of the station house, and the postal clerk with a small bag of mall The refugees were taken on board a warship and provided with food and drink They explained that they had hidden in a great cave near the shorp until the rain of ashes was over, and Lad then tried hour after hour to attract at-tract attention Wilson's Second Message. Washington, Jan. 15. On receiving receiv-ing further details of the earthquake and tidal wave In Japan. President Wilson today sent a second cablegram cable-gram to the Emperor of Japan as follows fol-lows : "Permit me again to express to you the deep sympathy which the American Ameri-can people feel for their sister nation, na-tion, Japan, In her great calamity. Their hearts go out to the thousands upon whom suffering and disaster have come so suddenly and in so terrible ter-rible a form. Is there any way in which we can help?" President Issues Appeal. Washington, Jan. 15 --President Wilson late today issued an appeal to the American people, as president of the American Red Cross, for funds to assist the ieoplo of apan who are suffering nt only from the earthquake earth-quake but from the failure of crops on |