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Show ! SUFFERS SEVERE SHOCK DAMAGE SAID TO OUTRIVAL IN INTENSITY GREAT DISASTER THERE IN 1923 One Hundred Reported Dead and Twenty Thousand Left Homeless; Home-less; Property Loss Not Yet Estimated Tokio. Relief organizations are working in the Sanin district of Hy-ogo Hy-ogo prefecture, northwest of Osaka, where considerable damage was wrought by one of the most severe earthquakes felt in this territory in many years. The tremor, it is said outrivaled in local intensity the disastrous dis-astrous Tokio-Yokohoma earthquake of September, 1923. Special trains carrying physicians, nurses and supplies were being rushed rush-ed to the devastated district from Osaka, Os-aka, It i3 estimated the injured number num-ber about 1000. Early estimates said the dead would not exceed 100, but 20,000 have been made homeless by the tremor and the fires which followed. fol-lowed. The tremblors continued in the Osaka district for ten minutes and the populace is in a panicky state. Shortly before midnight Tokio was shaken by a distinct earth shock, which caused no damage, according to available reports. The earthquake centered at Taji-ma, Taji-ma, fifty miles from Osaka. All lines of communication into the stricken district are down. Trains were wrecked wreck-ed and in the absence of reports from one passenger train it was feared it had been engulfed when a tunnel on the railroad lone collapsed. Fear was also felt for manw miners reported to have been trapped underground under-ground when the great Inkuno silver mine, the largest in Japan, was damaged dam-aged by the tremblor. A fleet of airplanes sent out from Osaka over the Hyogo prefecture reported re-ported great fires were still raging. The city of Toyo-Oka, which has a population of 10,000, was reported half in ruins, while the near-by towns of Kinosaki, where famous hot springs are located, and Tsiuyama were said to be totally destroyed. Forest fires were started and ships endeavoring to give aid to the homeless home-less at Tsuiyama were unable to make landings because of the fierceness fierce-ness of the flames. 1 The first shock came at 11: OS o'clock in the morning and it was felt in Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, Nagoya, Nara and other towns in the Kwan-sai Kwan-sai region as far as Shiminoseki, as well as in the province of Tajima, where the shock centered. Mount Yakegatake, a famous volcano, vol-cano, was reported in erupition coincident coin-cident with the earthquake, and crop damage was caused by a rain of ashes ash-es from its crator. According to advices reaching here from the earthquake zone, public buildings of Toyo-Oka, including the postoffice and railroad station were razed by the earthquake shock, and fire breaking out almost simultaneously simultane-ously quickly swept through the business busi-ness district. Water mains were broken by the quake. |