The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-27
GENUINE COURTESY AND HERo1sM.

scenes of the most absolute and appalling
destruction, there was not a single plant
of misery or note of distress ave at a point
where assistance had before been extended
by Europeans, and the need was so appar-
ent | could not resist adding to this demon
aliZation of character. Another most
creditable feature was the courageous
attack upon mountain piles Of thatch, tiles,
mud plaster and timber thrown into the
utmost confusion, and by the speedy cree
tion of temporary huts for shelter, in not a
few of which articles of food, though few
and meagre, were offered in the midst of
the ruins. There were no disturbances, no
signs of displeasure at difficulties from
passengers or vehicles passing through the
narrow openings made as thoroughfares
through masses of debris piled up both
sides of the way; a more civil. courageous
people in dire distress certainly never eX-
listed in any land under the sun.
At Yotsuya and Hagiwara attentive
crowds gatheren around the strangers who
visited them and tried to speak words OF
encouragement and hope Ooh! tears and
tears). The half of these towns had SUI,
fere0 the ravages of fire in addition to that
of the demolition of their homes. forming
in toward the great temple of the Mon
Zeki, which had fallen, crushing, 1t is said,
fifty people to death, the piles of rubbish
ard timber were wonderful. One village
of $50 houses now cunts but five.
THE EARTH YAwNED,
leaving cracks two feet wide and of IN.
known depth, assured in a thousand direc-
tons. The wayside houses near Ogak
presented a pltiful spectacle, lying
in heaps, with their dead be-
meath them. Iron rails were
curled into waves, bridges broken anC
twisted out of shape, river e~mbankments
e,,p y ~. ~, M laH and faldS flooded Ever
at such a time something amusing occurred
and it is only chronicled to show the utter
lack of prudery in the people of the vii
lagos. There in the middle of the street
surrounded by the ruin, was a japanese
lady taking her bath, with all around mel
fallen houses, apparently nothing but the
oath tub intact. A Buddhist temple a
Oak yielded to successive shocks and fell
all the worshippers who fled there being
buried with it. AT least forty person!
were ~engulfed in these fallen ruins, anC
all chance of escape or rescue was cut of
by the flames, the building being amongs
the first to take fire from some neighbor
ing debris which had become ignited. Tn
shrieks of
TIE Poe IMPRISONED wRETCHES
as they saw the fiery doom approaching
them is said TO have been horrible IN Uh
extreme. The scarcity of doctors an,
trained nurses was another prominent Tea
ture in the trials the homeless, sufferini
people nave had to endure; very little coul
be done for many besides washing thei
wounds with dilute carbolic acid. Tn
water of the River Kismo, MinO province
became turbid and reddish for a day o
two after the earthquake, and the directio
of its stream changed, shalioy
places becoming deep and vic
versa. In the Neo valley, province o
Gifu, a most terrific SINKING of the eartl
took place, some think as much as severa
hundred feet; at all events the temple c
Laikoji sunk up to its roof, and all tn
houses are described as looking as if the
bad been crushed into the earth. One larg
tract of land covered with trees and shrub
was moved bodily a distance of thirty fee
without disturbing anything on its surface
In the same neighborhood mountain
changed in formation and foliage disal
peareo. Much aid is being given by til
government and by foreigners, but it
, hopeless 10 think that all the s~urvivin
victims can be restored TO the comparaJiy
comfort of ordinary poverty which the
have lost. The vernacular papers give r
turns of the casualties in the two province
1 of Aichi ard Gifu. The combined popul
ton of those two districts alone wa
: 2,422, $40; the number of deaths 1924
. proportion of 3 to every l 900. The nun
, U6I VI WOuAdSu 10 Js1cO- Al CNGl
LOCO of the population. The number
houses totally or partially demolished
burnt down in the same area was 166, 4
t out of 499, 173, proving that about one houl
/ in every four was totally or partially d
stroyed. At Ogati
u DEAD BODIES WE'RE PILED "a THE TEMPT
GATES
l while many sufferers pressed with, di
: traught with grief or half maddened wit
Z fear and sorrow attempted hari kari. II
most touching sight to spectators were lii
a tie children who had lost their parents, al
S had, in many cases, no relatives that the
knew of. They were wandering aboI
crying or biting their fingers. a metec
illogical expert states that he saw one pla
e where thirty houses had sunk complete
out of sight. In one building where Sci
vices were going on the heavy roof fe
with a crash at the third shock and crush
the whole congregation of over $50. Befo
- effective steps could be taken to discov
= whether any of the worshippers survive
the fire came and settled the question, tv
only escaped, and they were sore
wounded.
At the three provinces (Kens) of Eel
:. zen, Mino and Dwarf the killed were "a
III wounded 4.230. Houses wholly destroye
42,414; partly destroyed, S,597. The {
struction of 40, 900 houses means that 20
n 900 people were rendered homeless. o
ID intelligent Jap says the, up and down trai
III on the Toxic railway were just meeting
III Gifu station when the first shock occurrt
1t was accompanied by a loud rumblir
and the movement was so violent that pt
sengers slipped from their seats and We
thrown into a state of the greatest alar
he concelving that a collision had tax
Nv place. On looking out of the window, no
ne ever, they perceived that
ig TIL STATION WAS IN RUINS,
: and that the water in a neighboring DO
= was dashing from side to side, Indicate
" which showed pretty plainly what h
. happened. The movement continued
some time with such severity that it v
impossible to leave the car. Meanwh
all large cracks two 10 three feet wide We
observed opening and closing in all dir
ey lions, volcanic mud and ashes being thro'
RS from some of them. From the descript+
ed given by some of the people, it seems Il
the first shock felt as though the hou
were raised and lowered suddenly throu
a space of two to three feet.
Is- Little matter what unseen power shal
the hard earth, these stealthy disaste
and their unseen sources will be remin
cent to hundreds of thousands in Jap,
" while the cry of her newborn widows q
orphans will fret the air ceaselessly.
G. H. SMELL
ne q SPLENDID GIFT OF $780, OC