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Show IMORE VIOLENT ERUPTIONS CAUSE JAPANESE TO FLEE IN TERROR Severe Earthquakes Accompany Volcanic Disturbances and Many More Buildings Fall Darkness Prevails and Railroads Rail-roads Employ Night Signals Gulf of Kagoshima a Boiling Sea Many Driven Insane From Terror and Exposure. INTENSE SUFFERING REIGNS EVERYWHERE Famine Stricken People in North Eating Chopped Straw, Leaves, Rotten Potatoes and Meat Taken From Dogs and Cats Many Deaths From Cold and Starvation Island of Sakura in Such Hopeless Condition Condi-tion That It Must be Abandoned. m Kagoshima. Jan. 17 Two further Violent eruptions of the volcano Sa-kura-Jima, accompanied by a severe earthquake, occurred late last night, causing the collapse of many more buildings. Numbers of the inhabitants inhabi-tants of Kagoshima who had returned, return-ed, fled again in terror from the city Ashes are falling thickly today. The sun looked like a ball of blood over Kagoshima. and the darkness ,! was such that night signals had to be employed on the railroads The fly- ing dust was so thick that the few pedestrians on the streets making 1 their way to the outskirts of the city had to cover their mouths and noses 1? with towels or handkerchiefs to pre vent suffocation, The sea in the gulf of Kagoshima seemed to be boiling and the quantity quan-tity of floating pumice stone was so gTeat that It prevented navigation. Blue Jackets from the Japanese fleet today discovered a native craft containing sixteen refugees from Sakura, Sa-kura, who were in a starving condition. condi-tion. They reported that owing to the floating masses of pumice atone and the high seas the had been unable un-able to steer their boat and had spent three days adrift at the mercy of the elements and without a morsel of food. The Blue Jackets were able to reach them only by using a wedge shaped raft, with which they pierced a field of pumice stone resembling ice floes. Lava today was flowing steadily down the sides of the volcano to the sea, increasing the area of the island, as the substance solidified on reaching reach-ing the water. Professor Fusakiehi Omori, the seismologist seis-mologist pointing to the village of Yokohama on Sakura. where 40U houses He buried n lava, said "Are the people burled there as in Pompeii?" and answered himself, ' Only the future can reply." Many refugees are reported to have been driven insane as a result of terror ter-ror and exposur. Great Loss of Life. Tokio. Jan. 17 An indication that the loss of life on the Island of Sakura, Sa-kura, which was devastated by the eruption of the volcano Sakuri-Jima may be much larger than had been supposed, Is given in a report received receiv-ed here from an official of the inter ior department who was sent to Kagoshima Kago-shima to investigate He reports that 9,000 out of Sakura's estimated population popu-lation of 19,000 had been accounted for up to the evening of the sixteenth. Other refugees, it Is expected, will be found in other directions but the loss of life was evidently extreme. Measures for relief of the sufferers from famine in the north and eruptions erup-tions in the south are rapidly assuming assum-ing shape now that the extent of the disaster is more definitely known. Appeal for Help. A relief association, national in scope, has been organized here and has Issued the following appeal for help: "Heaven has brought us disasters, one after another. While the suffering suffer-ing from famine In the northeast has not yet been relieved, another calamity calam-ity has occurred in Kiushlu, "The northeast, poorly favored by nature, sustained many afflictions in the past and is becoming impoverished. impoverish-ed. It is now suffering a great famine fam-ine and its people are eating only wild fruits and herbs to stay their hunger Snow covers the land, adding to the suffering "We were planning to relieve this distress when news came of the eruption erup-tion In the south with people buried j in lava or so scorched with fiery ashes that they had not time to save, their nearest relatives. No greater calamity can be Imagined." The statement ended with an ap-fc" ap-fc" peal to sympathizers for donations. Intense Suffering Everywhere. Bishop Walter Andrews, of the English Eng-lish church in Hok-Kaido, the famine stricken district, writes that the suffering suffer-ing everj'where Is Intense. The farmers, farm-ers, he says, are hit hardest and their families are eating soups made of chopped straw, leaves and rotten potatoes po-tatoes and meat taken from cats and dogs and such The more fortunate have a thin gruel made of rice or wheat. The net results, he writes, are many deaths from cold and starvation and an increase of crime and beggars Many girls, he declares, have been sold into slavery. He tells of many children faiting in schools, sick from lack of food. Great Change at Sakura. Kagoshima, Jan 17. Profeswor Omori. Om-ori. the Japanese celsmologist, who arrived here yesterday, circled the island of Sakum today and found a pronounced physical change. Huge molten rocks formed a range Into the sea, practically blocking the bay acrosB to Oscnii. Many buildings remain In perfect condition on the northern coatit, but i on the devastated eastern coast afch- 1 i i I es and lava reach to the eaves of the ! house. Many new hills having sprung I Into existence. The professor saw a woman on the shore, but when he spoke to her she fled wildly. She was undoubtedly insane. New Craters Still Active. The new craters formed on Sakura-Jima Sakura-Jima are still pouring volumes of smoke in the direction of Osuml. About seven-tenths of the Island Is a desert of lava and the remaining land Is In such a hopeless condition that it must be abandoned Fifteen hundred of the 2,000 houses on the island were buried. The estimated esti-mated damage on this account is 10,-000,000 10,-000,000 yen ($5,000,000). How to deal with the Islanders is a great problem, the professor says, but evidently evi-dently they must migrate Professor Imori thinks the entire volcano range of Kuishui has entered on a period of activity that recurs every 60 years and that eruptions maj be expected at any time, especially from the volcano Unseen, eight miles from Oblma, in the prefecture of Nagasaki . The geologist Okada is of the opln ion that Sakura Jima will continue its eruption for a month. MESSAGES POUR IN. Tokio. Jan. 17. Messages of sympathy sympa-thy with Japanese in connection with the recent disaster in the south are pouring in from all parts of the world and especially from America and I England. Both President Wilson and Secretarv of State Bryan have sent dispatches. oo |