The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-08-16
japanese Earthquake.

Yokohama, brings, through Japanese jour
nais particulars of volcanic eruption OF
Bandai San on tho 18th ofJuly. The details
of the catastrophe come in somewhat dis
jointed form. Tho Choya Shimbun dispatched
a special reporter to the scene. According
Bandai San heard strange rumbling sounds
and felt shocks of earthquake from
the 18th. These phenomena continued in
rermittently for two days and nights, but
not being attended by any serious result, no
great disguietude was felt. On the morning
of the 18th, ut about o'clock, the smaller
Banda San trembled and roared violently.
Almost Immediately afterwards ashes began
to fall, the sky suddenly grew dark and the
rumbling sounds continued. accompanied by
violent earthquake and flare of dazzling
flame. The crest of the smaller Banda San
appeared to BOLT bodily upwards and then
to fall again with q tremendous noise. Then
followed showers of red mud, mingled with
large stones, spreading havoc around. Above
the mud fell few inches of ashes. In the five
villages of Iwase, Yosan, Wakamiva, Misato
and Hibara the greater part Of the houses
wsre to- buried tTent +" & T depth s.t ON
Sodios 20 recovered ee j. n tsrr sSe Some ns
are parboed 30 that it is scarcely possible
to distinguish between men and women A
few corpses were found suspended in the
branches of trees. Up to the 18th the num-
Der of bodies recovered was 476. 1t is be-
lieved that sixty-one are still entombed. The
wounded number forty-one. Eighty seven
houses have been destroyed. Theinhabitants
Of Inawashiro and adjacent villages fled to
Wnkatsu and other places when Interruptions
occurred. The report Of the local official of
Wakamatsn says the inhabitants of
with their furniture: The wounded are re-
ceiving treatment ut the school house in
Inawashiro. Their condition is shocking.
Some have fractured skulls, Others broken
limbs. Qnd the faces of 2 few nre battered SO
rs to be unreeognizab!e: There are about q
thousand people in need Of help.
Gov. Hill of New York has granted Daniel
Lyons, the murderer, a respite until Tues day,
Aug. 81. The document from the governor,
accompanying this respite. says that he dis
approves Of the custom which has 80 long
been in vogue, Of having nll executions upon
Friday.
j. Harmon Reed and Miss Milliken took a
cruise out and around Bar HarbOr. The
| night was intensely dark and, becoming
alarmed at their absence, searchers were sent
| out. At on early hour next morning the
wharves in the vicinity were crowded with
anxious friends, who hoped and waited until
| noon. when a gun from the steam yacht Nov
sia, belonging to Montgomery Sears, on
pounced that she bore tidings. She had
picked up the boat, bottom up, off Egg rock,
| distance Of three miles from Bar Harbor
Miss Milliken was guest at the St: sauveur,
Her parents arc residents of New Orleans.
Mr. Reed was son of Joel Harmon Reed,
one of the wealthy iron foundry men of Al:
bany N. Y. The age of each of the supposed
victims was about twenty-five years.
While Gen. Boulanger was driving in open
carriage at Saint Jean d 'Angely Prof Perrin,
of the Lyeee, fired five shots at him from q
| revolver. N: Ratapan, q friend ofthe general,
rushed in and managed to turn the weapon
nside The result was that Ratapan himself
received a bullet in the head but the wound
| is not serious. The peasants were also
| wounded. Gen. Boulanser was not touched.
Prof. Perrin is friend of Mayor Lair, tho
candidate nominated by the opRortuni:ts in
enrred at the height of q pitched battle be-
tween the rival political parties. When the
| gendarmes charged Count Dillon received q
| blow on the head from a stick and other
Boulangcrists we're roughly handled. 1t is
not certain that Perrin intended to aim at
Boulanger.
Dispatches report that IN agitation is be-
| ing earried on in Cuba, with the assistance of
| influential American politicians, in favor of
| the annexation Of Cuba to the United States.
The Cuban situation is becoming extremely
difficult, owing to the financial troubles, and
| the increasing agitation in favor Of homo
rule.
Carlessness on the part of an engineer
| caused q collision between two 20" freight
! trains ut Chicago and entaied a loss of $780,
900. A number of oil cars were struck by
the locomotive Of q train going in an oppO-
| site direction and upset. The oil, of which
there was &c, 900 gallons, was soon afire. It
destroyed four tank cars and ruined the 10.
motive which was the cause Of the trouble.
| p: NJ. Epes Of Chicago, a drummer for
McLaughlin's eoffee house, who hos been i'll
| at the Michigan Exchange hotel at Salt Ste
| Marie for three weeks, exhibited symptoms
| Of insanity, and was conveyed to the county
jail. Signs of mental alteration have been
noticeable for several days, but it was not
| q nephew Of Capt. EnOs of Waukesha, Wis.,,
the well known politician.
A dispatch from Corning, New York, gives
| the details of u wreck on the Erie railway,
| two miles east Of that village. The locomo-
| motive of the Chicago and St. Louis limited
| express, east-bOund, running ut the rate OF
over forty miles an hour, jumped the track
and dashed into q Lehigh Valley locomotive,
standing stin. The passenger locomotive
overturned and crushed to death John Mer-
cereau of HornellSville, the engineer. The
fireman escaped. Henry Fisher, the Lehigh
baggnge cars md the smoker were wrecked.
Louis F. Denmuth. of Chicago, was hurt inter-
nally and Hans Won Open Of Cincinnati had
one hand hurt These were the only injuries
to passengers.