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done to the casrle was in the cracking
of sOme OF Its walls.
THE GOYERNMENT OFFICEs.


Cabinet Building-Through the fall
ing of the chimneys, the root was Sc
veTely damaged, and the wall crack
ed and fell of. the shock coming as
the Ministers of State were III CONSUL
tatiOn sitting around u table, DTS Oh
plaster fell upon them as they rushed
out OF the room.
PrIvy G. uncil Building A chimney
fell, but there was very little damage
done.
Household Department-An official
on seeing the west entrance sllghIIy
damaged, tried to rush out and was
injured. Attendants and boys were
also slightly Injured.
Foreign ofIice-The tiles fell off in
many places, and most chimDeys have
leaned dangerously. Though the
Minister and Vice Minister'S resi-
dences are not perceptibly damaged,
the Private Secretary, kure's, resl-
dence was seriously damaged, CHM
ney falling through the roof, and Inc
walls having cracked, the rOOrbs are
almost destroyed. Mr.. Kure's family
have left the house. The Private Sec
retary's residence has also suffered
through cracks on the walls, and, the
stones on the caves being almost dis
logged, the house is in great danger OF
a collapse.
Home Oepartment-Nearly the
chimneys have fallen, six OF them
having pierced the roof into the rooms
set apart for the Bureaux of Public
Works, Perfectural Administration,
Police Supervision and General All
fairs, and the Secretariat, while
building behind the Department was
completely destroyed. A paper-plas-
ter-r was so seriously injured hat 1t
is believed he has since succumoed.
Finance Department The Vice
Minister and other high officials were
in council when the shock occurred.
They all ran out of the building, fol
lowed by the clerks. Clerk Miznguchi
was coming down, when the staircase
came off, aud he was 81 verely MUIR
in the thigh. An attendant jumped
out of a window, but ju-t as he Came
on the ground a chimney fell on top
of him and buried him in its ruins.
He was helped out and, after medical
assistance had been called, the two
men were seut to the Juntcddo Hos
pital. The clerk is expected To live If
his thigh can be mended. > Chin
neys came down at the Department
and destroyed three buildings.
War Department-The himneys OF
the Minister and Vice Minister'S
rooms were knocked down, aud the
walls in many places Were cracked.
Damages, however, were compare
ly slight.
CENTRAL METEOROLOGICAL BSERv-
AToRY.
The following are the reports so far
received at the Central Meteorological
Observatory, Tokyo:
Time Goth, 2.04. 10 pm.
Durati,n.-4 Minis. As secs.
DIrection.-S.W.to NE.
Maximum Horizontal Motion.-76
nm. in 1.3 sec.
Maximum Vertical Motion. - Is
nm. in l o secs.
Nature udden.
Remarks The horizontal and ver-
teal motions arose at the same time,
and after seconds, the maximum
hariZontal motion was renched, and
continued for II seconds, and then be-
gan to- diminish in force until it be-
came imperceptible-
All the instruments at the observa-
tory were damaged, end both the seis-
mOgraph and seismOmeter were dis
troy. d. According to a member of
the observatory, the shock on We'd
nesday was severest at Tokyo and
Gummaken, and the center of the
earthquake must be WITHIN these two
prefectures; but as there is no meteor
logical station Gumma-ken, there is
no means f ascertaining the strength
of the shock in that province. We'd
nesday's earthquake is believed to
have been more severe than that OF
1855, but being of shorter duration, it
was less disastrous than that famous
The area of the shock was
also small.
GREAT EARTHQUAKES OF TOKYO.
The number of great earthquakes |
which caused great loss of life and
property since 1927 is seven, giving !
an average of one every thirty eight |
pears. Since the last great earth |
quake took place in 1855, the present |
year being the thirty ninth after that |
such a shock as occurred on |
Wednesday was only to be expected. |
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