The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-08-16
FEARFUL VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN
JAPAN.
Houses Buried Fifteen to Twenty Feet Be
meath Red Mud and Ashes-Hundreds
of Persons Killed-Fearful Suffering
ofthe People.

San FRANCISCo, CAL.. August l2
The steamer City of Sidney, which
arrived this evening, from Hong Kong
Yokohama, brings japanese journals
with particulars OF 4 volcanic eruption
of Baldai San Oh the fifteenth of July
Detaiis'of the catastrophe came in q
somewhat disgusting form. Choya
Shimbun dispatched special re-
account the villages surrounding BAH
dai heard strange rumbling sounds and
felt shocks OF earth', -aie from the
18th. These phcnomel, :, continued i'll
termittently for two days and nights,
but not being attended by any serious
result no great diSquict was felt. On
the morning of the 18th, at about s
o'clock, sl.laller Bandai San trenIbled
and roared Violently; also, inimeGi-
ately afterwards, ashes began to fall,
the sky suddenly grew dark and the
rumbling sounds continued, ACCOM-
panied by q violent earthquake and the
flare OF Il dazzling flame. The crest OF
smaller BanGoi San appeared 10 be
lifted bodily upwards aud then to fall
again with L tremendous noise then
followed 4 shower Of red mud, mingled
with large stones, spreading havoc
around.
Such, indeed, was TIC nature OF near
~ all matter cruptcd, rcd mud, with no
small stones, but accompanied occu-
sionally by heavy rocks. Above the
mud fell few inches Of;isheS. lii the
five villages Of Iwase, Iooan, Wakami
VA, Misato and Hibara the greater
part of the houses were buried TO the
depth Of from seven to twenty feet.
The state of the bodies recovered is ter
rible. Some are literally cut TO pieces,
others are parhoiled SO that it is scarce
ly possible TO distinguish between men
and women. a few corpscs were
found suspended i'll the branches Of
trees, which had caught them as they
fell. Up 10 the 18th the number OF
bodies recovered was 476. 1t is believed
that 64l are still entomhed. The
wounded number II. Eighty-seven
houses have been destroyed. The in-
hahitants Of Inawashiro and adjacent
villages fed to Wak;lmatroa and ether
places when the eruptions occurred.
The report of The local official of Wlka-
matroa says the inhabitants Of lnawas-
hiro and adjacent districts escaped with
their furniture. The wounded RE re-
ceiving Treatment at the school house
in Inawashiro. Their condition is
shocking. Some have fractured skulls,
others broken limbs, and 4 few are bat
tered so as to be unrecogniZable. There
are about thousand people in need of
help.
FURTHER DETAILS OF THE ERUPTION.
san FRANCISCO, August 13.-Furth-
er advices regarding the volcanic erup-
tions in Japan state that the small vii
lagos of kishizawa, Akurnoto and
Hosonc, in Hinokiharo Mura, were
covered with sand and ashes, and the
sites on which they stood were thrown
into mountain. The number Of per-
sons buried in these villages is entirely
unknown, but it is believed that no one
there escaped alive.
At Nina five residences were destroy
ed and twelve persons were killed: at
Shebinya seventeen residences were
destroyed and twenty persons killed or
wounded; at Nagazaka twenty-five
residences We're destroyed and ninety
eight persons killed, and at Horeki
thirty-seven residences were destroyed,
but no one was killed; the people fled.