The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-10-26
HOODS W ASTE JAPAN
- WHOLE EMPIRE DEVASTATED
NJ GREAT HaIxsToRA.
~.v 1--we. Lost, Hundred. of Houses
n~seroyea, Railroads Washed 6suf
~Jspan's New COMMEMORATIVE

Tacoma, Oct. zs.-Tas steamer oIyrn-
: whlca arrived from China and Janan
"a brings news % the terrible havoc
~~oayst BY foods IN Japan. 4 rssu-
rwr which swept the entire empire on
ssstsrnber 81. washed away railroads de-
~v~ved many houses, drowned numbaYs
Z p<opie flooded whole districts Of tue
sansry ard reduced thousands Of people
: ssstltution-
r1s government railway was washed
xsay In several places between Haao-
era and Kan baTa- 4 part % ne tan-
u between Hodogaya and Tozsuka col
s@as<d ami fell on fsEe trucks or 4 train
etsrh wss passing through a. the time.
pxrx Of the line between 0aeo and koazu.
ssa Mafsnds. Yamaksfa and OyamA and
fxHsu and Ksmbara we're sgbn1er xes, and
~ raIlway people are Cow busy repair
ng damages
1 Eohe dispatch states that numerous
ACES have occurred ia that vicinity
ixzshf being under water. with seven
ssasss swept away~and traffic has been
ressed on the SanY0 railway From
ksrgya. Gifu. Hiroshima. Okayanz.
gzgsEa. Kagoshima. KyotO. chlbn and
DIR places comes news OF bridges and
snb4nEments having been swept away
"a enormous damage done.
lives Lost and Houses Destroyed.
xsay people were killed In the several
xsirscts. At Musahi twenty-five houses
ELAPSED. At Akashi twenty houses we're
tssroyed and twenty-five badly damaged.
~ Msnichi states thai 6 80 houses are
soedsd at Nagoya. According to an o.
ga report from Aichi prefecture. there
srs forty-two villages. altogether contain
Kg ieef3 houses still submerged in the
gaile kaisai Nakashlrua and HagurY dis
sresS while ~ 100 peasants are at present
ssgsadsni on the rati0na ~ food issued by
fse government. Tire damage 10 tie rice
traps Ii estimated 10 be not less than
fgaga ven. The Tokaldo railway vas
hDeked by the collapse o. the sattatoga
snnnsL
Al Ashigara. shlmogori. a landslp oe-
cured. and water gushed out from a hill
gde and swept away eleven houses. be
sass damaging some others. Al another
pAre. Raj Yamura, on the Arakawa
rssr seven houses we're destroyed ard the
whole district was under water The
YaIkl river was Fl food and carried away
issrfeen houses AZ Ugawara. besides dam
sgsug numerous others and the WELL
Sagwn mineral springs there have been
tayse6 and have totally disappeared from
rew. Along the Atami road bridges were
Washed away az well as other DAMAGE
ported The late rice crops are reported
10 have been almost completely ruined IN
many districts. An official report from
Hyako states that the Takaradzuka bath
Aease. well known TO most foreign resi-
esass. was washed away. There were
sssafy deaths In Arims. over II on peo-
pie AZ Gifn who were rendered homeless
are now being supported hy charity Two
prisons we're killed, twenty-five houses
rsshed away. nineteen houses destroyed
and iss houses partly destroyed In Kako-
gun.
An Earthquake shock.
iron deposits Of excellent quality ana
y large extent are reported TO have baea
found al Okla. Fukuoka.
serious earthquake shock II reported
2 have been felt at Yonezawa. sendai and
Nagata. The same shock was felt but
slishtly In Yokohama.
The steamer seshu Maru. which left
Horc on September e for Shinagawa. IL
Missing, nothing having been heard OF her
aDce she left Kobe
The export OF raw silk from Yokohama
fFefn July TO August 81 was: To America.
~ bales. and 10 Europe. s.s7s bales:
sstsi OF a.s22 bales Last year. during the
1nc term. $50 bales were exported TO
Ansriea and LIS bales TO Europe. a total
Il 1873
The Finances Of Japaa
Ten les.ossssa.ss Of gold and =. az. 20. 81 in
alssr coins and bullion are reported to be
as total amounts IN japan October /
Ntre were 1886 banks. having an aaere-
fsts capital Of yen 203.o4i si4 IN Japan at
ne end OF September. an Increase az "a
assks and ven 4sTfo1a canlsai over August.
Inere have been s1.ss7 sufferers from
ffssntery throughout Japan since sepfen.
~ = or these s,ai4 were in Tokyo. ard
LES proved fatal.
The rice crop In Nligata prefecture
salch Is usually 25,ooo 90 koku. has been
saaced oHe-half BY floods and insect
.sst@ and ssl,esl koku must be supplied
~. .sah other districts for consumption be-
ere next harvest
me amount Intended 70 be raised fer the
paeiie Industrial loan during the past ana
present fiscal years was &C. no00d0 ven. az