Show SUFFERS mum CK DAMAGE SAID TO OUTRIVAL I 1 IN N INTENSITY GREAT DISASTER THERE IN 1923 ono one hundred reported dead and twenty thousand left homeless property loss lose not yet estimated boklo relief are working in the district of hy agu prefecture northwest of osaka where considerable damage was waa wrought by one of the most severe earthquakes felt in this territory in many years the tremor it is said outrivaled out rivaled in local intensity the disastrous boklo yokohama earthquake of september 1923 special trains carrying physicians nurses and supplies wore being rushed to the devastated district front from osaka it Is estimated the injured number about 1000 early estimates said the dead would not exceed but rave lave been made homeless by the tremor and the fires which follow ed the tremblers ers ors continued in the osaka district for ten minutes and the populace is in a pa state shortly before midnight boklo was shaken by a distinct earth shock which caused no damage according to available reports the earthquake centered at baji ma fifty miles from osaka all lines of communication into the stricken district are down trains were wreck ed and in the absence ot of reports from one passenger train it was feared it had been engulfed when a on the railroad ralli oad lone collapsed fear was also felt tor for manu man miners reported to have been trapped under ground when the great 1 uno silver mine the largest in japan was dam aged by the A fleet of airplanes sent front from osaka over the hyogo prefecture prefer ture ro 10 ported great fires were still raging the city of toyo oka which has haa a population of 10 was reported halt in ruins while the nearby near by towns of kidosaki Kin osaki where famous hot springs are located and were said to be totally destroyed desti oyed forest fires acre s started carted and ships endeavoring to olve give aid to the home less at Tsu iyama bere ere unable to make landings because of the fierce ness of tho the flames the shock came at 1108 11 08 in the morning and it was felt in osaka kobe kyoto nagoya nara and other towns in the kwan sal aal region as aa tar far as as well as in the province of tajima where the shock centered mount a famous vol cano was reported in erupi erudition eru tion coin ident with the earthquake and crop damage was caused by a rain of ash es from its brator according to advices advises reaching hero heie arr n tho the earthquake zone public buildings of toyo oka including the post postoffice office and raili railroad oad station were razed by the earthquake shock and fire breaking out almost simul tane bously quickly swept through the bustness district water mains were broken by the quake |