Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-25
FIVE THOUSAND KILLED.

| The Details of the Terrible Earrh- quake in Japan-Four Thousand People Killed Outright Two Thousand Persons Rendered HOme- less.
 CHICAGO, Nov. A.-Advices from Yoko- hama of November give further details | of the earthquake which occurred on Octo- Der 2S, few minutes before o'clock in the morning. It was the severest earth | quake shock experienced since the terrible catastrophe of 1855 and must be ranked as a national calamity. l The greatest damage to buildings and the greatest loss of life occurred in the pre- | lectures of Achy and Gifu, where nearly | 4,O0O people were killed outright and 4, 900 seriously wounded. In those two pre- lectures AZ, ,OO0 houses were totally -des- troyed, rendering 200, ,OO0 people homeless. The disturbances were perceptible at Hiogo | in the south and as far north as Rikushu, while they were strongly felt in thirty y-one l provinces. The center seems to have been in Mino and Dwarf.
 Shocks continued to be felt up to No vember 5, but the intervals between them 1 gradually increased while their intensity diminished. It is estimated that from the commencement of the disturbance up to that date there were 6,600 shocks, or more | than one every two minutes. A town on the Tokiado railroad with population of 1000 was almost entirely destroyed, B. 500 out of total of 4,4O0 houses in the town being overthrown or burned and FAY people killed.
 In the town of Kano 600 houses were overthrown and 100 people killed. In the town of Ogarki thirty-fve houses were overthrown, 2,000 houses burned and 700 people crushed to death. Thirteen hun dred were injured. In the town of Toeg- ahhama nearly 600 houses were overthrown and like number burned and over 100 people killed. In the town of Kitagatima- chi eighty-four people were killed. The and eighty people killed. These towns are all in the provinces of Ezozi Mino and Dwarf and make a total of 3,4O0 deaths and 43, ,000 houses totally destroyed. Com munication has not yet been opened up to all outlying points, but it is now known
 that the total deaths will exceed 5000.
 The up and down trains on the Tokiado
 railroad were just meeting at Gifu station,
 the center of the disturbance, when the
 first shock occurred, The shock was ac-
 companied by @ rumbling sound and was
 violent. The people on the trains slipped
 from their seats and for moment thought that collision had occurred. On looking out of the windows, however, they beheld : the station in ruins, and the water in g neighboring pond dashing violently from
 side to side. Some of the passengers made
 their way into Gifu and found immense , heaps of ruins Many houses had fallen
 while others were so shattered that the sue
 ceeding tremors of the earth threw then a to the ground. In almost every house :. some unfortunate was buried and th' chances of escape were diminished greatly by confagrations in many places.
 The railway line was too much dam
 aged to allow of the moving of trains ant
 the passengers were accordingly com pellet to make their way on foot to the neighbor 5 ing towns. The roads were found to b
 almost impossible by reason of Assures an'
 1andslides. The town of Kano was fount
 to be wholly in ruins, not house remain = ing Kasamatsu suffered a like fate, ever
 dwelling being 8 mass of debris. Every
 where survivors were digging out the dea
 and wounded, and fighting against con
 fagration on all sides.
 The potteries in the prefectures of OwaI
 and Mino, the great centers of porcelai
 manufacture in Japan, and those at Set . stroyed. The shock was so severe ths scarcely sound house is left standing with the exception of the castle. The Cob temple, belonging to the Sbin sect of Bud dists, was crowded with worshippers whe it fell, burying at least fifty people. Tn ruins took fire, and the shrieking victim a were consumed before the eyes of the hol ri6ed onlookers. SJ A slight shock was felt at Nagerio Q the night of Sunday, October 2o Q tians were assembled in, enc of the publ buildings of the Methodist school Il structure began to totter and the worship
 pers fled. One Christiaa and his wife we | killed and two Japanese were fatally il