The record-union., 1896-07-09
Sixty Thousand People Reported to
Have Been Killed.
Many of the Survivors Now on the
Verge of StarvatiOn-The Wave,
Which Originated Not Far From
the Coast, Extended Over a Terri
tory of Three Hundred Miles, Des-
troying Almost Everything.

VICTORIA, July S.-The steamer
Braemer arrived from the Orient this
morning and brought news up TO June
"a. 1t has additional details about the
recent tidal wave There were 1870
people killed and 1856 houses de-
stroyed by the wave in the Miyas Gi
Prefecture; and in Iwate Prefecture
Z-,loo perished, while / ,244 were in
Jufed and o,03O houses destroyed MAX
ing total in the two Prefectures of 81. -
loo killed, 1,244 injured, and 9,616
houses destroyed. The number of
deaths in the Aomori Prefecture is
not known yet. In the Miyagi Prefec-
ture the villages of Shizukawa, Otani.
otatsu and karakuwa suffered most
from the wave. In Iwate Prefecture.
en-Numa, Sakari, Kamaishi and
huJl We're most damaged. In Aomori
Hrelecture, Minatok, Hachinohe and
Mlyako were severely damaged.
"A dispatch to the ''Yomiura" from
Morlka, dated June Goth, states that
over oo,OOO people We're either killed or
injured by the recent calamitous wave.
over 800 koku of rice were sent from
Hakoaate to various places for the sur
Vlvors, who were on the verge of star
yation.
In the Minami District three towns
anu elsht villages We're overwhelmed:
o'o-' persons We're drowned, 3S2 were
injured and 1,236 houses were de-
stroyed.
"A full investigation will probably
double these figures
In AWomori Prefecture 300 persons
perlshed; there were injured 143 eiob-
teen houses were DESTROYED and 1SO
schools demolished. Over 15O bodies
were cast ashore On an island five miles
dlstant from Kamaishi.
Inc following figures refer to the
kesen District: 5000 dead. 313 in
Jured, 3,olS houses destroyed. The mi
chi Nichi'' states that the survivors Of
the recent disaster are subsistfng on fish
"dsned ashore by the wave They are
compelled to eat them raw. having no
Cooking appurtenances. The ships Dali
san Choan, Maru, kaijo, Myozin and
homplra, which We're in Kamaishi Har-
Dor on the night of Monday, were left
by the wave, almost unfnfured inland
among the fields.
The visitation will probably ba re-
membered as the most extensive of ;ts
KIND since 1854, when the provinces of
ougura, Totomi, Mikawa. Iga, Ise. Sett-
su' Harma, Ava, Sanuki, Iyo and Tosa
were swept by huge waves in Novem.
ber.
The wave originated not far from tho
Japanese coast, probably in an extan-
slVe displacement of the seabed on
southwestern edge of Tuscarora Deem
ana 1t appears to have visited over 900
miles OF coast line. Even in Hokkaido.
IL wrought destruction. The most so1Itb-
efiy limit of the cavages appears to
nave been Just a little north of the fa
nous archipelago of Natushima. Had
the wave impinged upon the coast south
CT klnkasan it would have worked ruin
among the towns and villages such as
ls'nomaki, Shiogama. Nobiru. and
others. But it missed the promonitorv
and began its devastation with the viii
lages OF Onagawa and Okachi, situated
across the neck of the peninsula.
Thence to the northWard its rayages
may be traced by reports that have
come from Kesen-Numa, Hamisho and
other towns and hamlets
The country between Miyako and Ke-
sen-Numa has hilly peninsulas. a ford
like coast, with mountain ridges lead
ing down to 1t. The harbors are stated
to be the finest in Japan. The fishing