The Hawaiian gazette., 1894-07-20
WRECKED TEAHoUsE IN YOKOHAMA
(Reproduced from the japan Gozette.)

i Wilson & Co.'s. These buildings are
quite new, having been only recently
completed. Between the rear and
( the road is a space about eighteen feet
wide, which was covered with cor
rugated iron and supported by up
rights and beams, tied together with
iron bolts; and above this was light
| wooden platform. The earthquake
shock had the effect of toppling over
triangular shs ped portion of the up
right wall of the front go down, and
this fell ON to the end of the wooden
platform, smashed through the cor
rugated iron roof and buried a num-
ber of men, women and children in
several tons of debris. AS might be
expected, this crash, together with
the quivering of the building, filled
the people engaged in the go downs
with fear; but as soon as the shock
ceas d, and the frightened people had
to some extent recovered from the eX-
citement, the work of digging out
the buried persons was commenced.
About twenty five-men, women and
children-Bere covered by the fallen
bricks and mortar. All were eventu-
ally extricated but one man, whose
head and limbs were injured, died
| after lingering an hour and a half;
and the life of another was despaired
of. The children's injuries FORUM
ately were slight. The disaster Gre
ated the greatest excitement in the
city; and during the whole of the
afternoon Messrs. Wilson's establish
ment was surrounded by large
crowds.
Throughout the Settlement and
| the Bluff damages are reported. There
is probably not a foreign house in
Yokohama where some damage has
not been done. The upheaval upset
tables and dashed vases, curios and
crockeryware to the ground.
TO attempt to give anything like
comprehensive list of the damages re
sulting from the shaking up wonld be
| hopeless, for so far as can be gathered
there is hardly house in the Settle
ment or on th- Bluff that has suffered
more or less injury. Clarendon House
| which it was feared by many would
not stand an earthquake, had a severe
test and is reported to have stood 1t
well. The proprietor says not a beam
was heard to or ok; several vases were
tn own down from br ,ckets, but the
house moved like solid rock. At
Tokyo the earthquake proved more
| destructive than in Yokohama; while
Koke escaped the shock altoger her.
THE EARTHQUAKE IN TOKYO.
Another chronological convulsion
has, writes a Tokyo correspondent,
given Tokyo the worst shaking up it
has had for thirty-eight years. On
Wednesday afternoon promptly at
o'clock there was low rumbling
sound heard, and then the houses be-
gan to rock, at first only gently as if
not fully prepared for the task, then
the shaking became more rude and
then ruthless. In few moments the
dust was seen to fly on the roofs, then
tiles came batteIng down to the
ground. For few moments only the
chimneys reeled I'd rocked as if try
ing to regain their balance aud then
came thunderiDg down. At other
places they broke through the roof
and ceiling and came into the rooms.
But the saddest and worst remains to
be told. The gr-atest loss sustained
by any of the Foreign Missions is that
by the American Episcopalians The
Saint Paul's brick school building,
which had already been condemned
as unfit for further occupancy, gave