The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-08-21
HUNDREDS BURIED ALIVE.
Horrible Death Resulting from Earthquakes
in China.

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, August 12.-The
Steamer City of Sidney, which arrived this
evening, from Hong Kong and Yokohama,
brings through the Japanese journals with
the particulars of the volcanic eruption of
Bandai bank on the fifteenth Of July. The
details of the catastrophe came in y somewhat
despoiled form. Tho Choya Shimbkn dis
patched special reporter to the scene. Ac-
cordng to his account the villages surround
ing Bandai heard the strange rumblinc sounds
and felt the shocks of the earthquake from
18th. These phenomena continued intermit-
tenly for two days and nights. but not being
attended by any serious Iesultno great dsquiet
was felt On the morning of the 18th, at
about O'Clock, smaller Bandai San tremhled
and roared violently. Immediately afterwards
ashes began TO fail, tho sky suddenly grew
dark and the rumbling sounds con-
tinued, accompanied by violent earth
quake and flare of dazzling
flame. The crest the smaller Bandai San
appeared to be lifted bodily upwards and then
to fall again with a tremendous noise. Then
followed showers OF red mud, mingled with
large stones, spreading havoc around. Such
indeed, was the nature OF nearly all the matter
erupted; red mud with no small stones, but
accompanied occasionally by heavy rocks.
Above the mud fell few inches Of ashes. In
the villages of lwase, Yoaan, Wakami va,
Misato and Hibara, the greater part of houses
were buried to depth of from seven to twenty
feet. The state of the bodies recovered is ter
rlbe. Some are literally cut to pieces, others
are par-boiled, that it is scarcely passible to
distinguish between men and women. A few
corpseS were found suspended in branches of
trees which had caught them as they fell.
Up to the 18th, the number bodies recov-
cred is 40 Ii is believed that 81 are still en-
tom5ed. The wounded number II. Eighty.
seven houses have been destroyed. The in
habitants OF lnawashiro and adjacent villages
fled to Wakamatroa and other places when the
erUptions occurred. Tie report Of the local
officials of WaEanatroa says inhabitants
OF Inawashiro and adjacent districts
escaped with their furniture. The wounded
are receiving treatment at the schoolhouse in
Inawashiro. Their condition is shocking
Some have fractured skulls, others broken
limbs and the faces of q few are battered so as
to be unacceptable. There are about thous-
and people i'll need of help.
Not One Left.
san Francisco, Cal, August 13.--Further
advices regarding the volcanic eruptions in
Japan state that the small villages of Kishiza-
ma, Akwrnato and Hosono, in Hinokihara
Mwra. were covered with sand and ashes, and
the sites ON which they stood thrown into the
mountain. The number of persons buried i'll
these villages is entirely unknown, but it is
believed that no one thege escaped alive.
AT Nina, five residences were destroyed,
and twelve persons were killed; at Shebiaya,
seventeen residences We're destroyed, and
twenty persons killed or wounded at Maya
zak twenty-five residences were destroyed,
and ninety-eight persons killed, and at Horeki
thirty-seven residences We're destroyed but no
one was killed. The people fed.