Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-24

sengers accordingly We're compelled to
| make their way on foot to neigh boring
| towns. The road was almost impossible
| by reason of the assures and land-slides,
| and no conveyances were to be had
Proceeding from Gifu TO Kano. the latter
place was found wholly in ruins. Not
house remained upright. The town of
kasamatsu Jared like hano, every dwelling
being a mass of debris. Everywhere sur
vivors We're 10 be found digging out the
dead and wounded and fighting against the
contlagrations that broke out on all sides
The shock experienced at Ogaki was so
severe that scarcely a sound house was left
standing with the exception Of the castle,
which. despite its 400 years, stood the shock
remarkably well. The Gobo temple, be-
longing 10 the Shin sect of Buddhists. was
crowded with wOrShiperS II being the an
niversary OF the death Of Shin, the founder
OF the sect. The temple fell, burylng at
least 800 people.
The town of Nagerio escaped lightly in
comparison with the region west of there,
embracing GiIu. Ogaki and Junto. Slight
shocks We're felt 1T Nagerio on the night of
Sunday, October p. On Wednesday morn
ne forty Christians were in one Of the build
ings of the Methodist Protestant school.
When the sound of the distant rumbiine
arose and the building began to totter, the
worShiperS fed out doors. One Christian
and his wife were killed by falling brick
and tiles, and two other japanese were so
badly injured that they have have since
died. OF the eight foreigners in the build
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Nandyke, mis-
sionaries conducting the meeting, together
with one other person, were dangerously
hurt. Out Of doors the city was i'll an up
roar. Wild shrieES, shouts and inuumer-
able noises filed the air while every few
moments came the terrible thunder from
the angry earth. Many streets We're block
oil, f.,4N
choked with people rushing TO and fro.
The chimney OF the normal school went
crashing through the roof Of the building.
1t presented the appearance of having been
bombarded. The upper story OF the post
Office was ruined, and the railway station
was destroyed
The Dwarf thread factory.
large brick building, crashed in, kill
ing hunoreds of people. Fires started
in several portions of the city, but were
subdued. The loss Of life in three towns,
which go to make up the city OF Nagoya Is,
variously estimated al from $50 to 1909. Up
to Friday. October so, six distinct shocks
We're recorded as following the one OF
"Wednesday.
The wounded were brought into the city
from surrounding towns, and reports con-
tinued TO come of damage done and of stir
ring Incidents FiSSureS opened two feet
wide and several feet deep Railway rails
We're twisted, iron bridges broken, river
entertainments sunk or crunbled and fields
flooded. A lake GOO yards long and sixty
yards wide was formed at the foot of
Bakussamo mountain i'll Gifu prefecture,
besides Gong hill, Aba hill and several other
hills in Gifu gave way ana water spran9
from the cracks in the ground and the water
in the wells was changed to brownish
color and rendered unfit for drinking. The
en- bankmeutS OF the Niagara. kiSao, Shouai,
Tiy IS
estimated that half of the seventy-hve miles
of embankment was damaged. In Gifu the
prefecture will have to be wholly rebuilt.
The general appearance of the AliSuShuma
division of the Motosy district under
went complete transformation and at NOgo
in the Ono district a marked subsistence of
the earth's surface has taken place through
out an area of two and half miles in diam
eter The bed of the river Neo, in the
vicinity of MiSutOma, was raised about six
feet, and the rumbling of the mountain in
that vicinity was heard at frequent
intervals. There are several tesnples III the
Gifu prefecture. More than third are to-
tally destroyed. Anything like a heavy
rainfall would cause nearly the whole of
GIfu to be flooded, and many months
would be required to repair the
embellishments. In some parts of the town
boiling mud spouted out of the assures to
the height of ten feet. A majority of these
two hours. At Saka which town
also suffered greatly from earth
quake, the Demba cotton mill is reported as
having collapsed and over twenty-five men |
were killed and wounded. The Matushima |
cotton mill also suffered, and several deaths !
are reported while the Manwa cotton mill |
at Osaka, 4 three-story brick building cost
ing S20O,00O, was partially crushed to the |
ground, causing the loss of twenty-three |
lives.
The total sum of money distributed for
the relief of the sufferers up to November |
was enormous, while a quantity of rice
was also distributed The emperor and
empress made a donation of about $4,000 |
from their private purse, The condition
Of the devastated sections is such that a
large number of inhabitants have left these
procedures to obtain work, whereby to sup
port themselves. One hundred and fifty
eight thousand persons in the Gifu prefec-
ture have applied for assistance.