The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-30
The Destruction Of Life and
Property Was Very
Great.
The Norwegian Bark Alette
Wrecked and Ten Sailors
y Drowned.
An Apprentice on the Olympia Acct
dentally Killed in Yokohama
Harbor.

The Occidental and Oriental Steamship
Company's Doric. which arrived from the
Orient yesterday. brings the news OF a
most destructive typhoon which visited
Japan on the 9Th inst. The complete re-
turns show that there were thirty-eigbt
dea his, forty-two wounded 1000 houses
demolished, 1910 partially demolished and
1000 greatly damaged. A number of YES
sells dragged their anchors, there were
several collisions, vessels on their
way to Yokohama had to put to sea and
the Norwegian bark Alette, from Vancou-
ver B. c., fer Yokohama, was wrecked
and ten of her crew drowned.
While chronicIing the disaster the Jap
anese papers give neither the names OF
the lost nor those of the survivors. Cap
tain Gullichsen was in command OF the
Alette and he and the second mate and
four sailors were rescued. The bark was
caught in the typhoon and her sails were
blown to ribbons and the rudder broken.
She then drilled helplessly on the rocks,
where she soon pounded to pieces The
Survivors managed TO Jump ashore, but
the others were battered to death among
the load of lumber with which the vessel
was freighted.
The AIette was built in 1879 and was
owned by the captain. She had cargo
OF 800. 900 feet of lumber.
The storm destroyed great portion Of
the water-mains leading to Yokohama
and the city was on short allowance when
the Doric saileu.
a fatal accident happened on the
Q. s. S. Olympia on the 9Th inst. Otto
Yaughman, an apprentice, fell through a
grating on 10 platform and broke sew
i Il,
from which he died. He was only -
years old. He was buried at Yokohama.
Speaking OF the lanuing OF trained
japanese soldiers in Hawaii the Mail says
this of a person who signs himself "One
Not Quite in the Dark':
He declared that preparations were secretly
on foot for japanese descent upon Hawaii ;
that the Government in Toxic had definitely
made up its mind 10 annex the Islands, ana
that the 18, 600 Japanese immigrants in He-
waii practically constituted an army, requfr-
ing only weapons, sin the use OF which they
had been trained when serving as conscr pts II
home" We do not remember precisely how
far these allegations were confirmed by the
journal in which they appeared, but we
pointed out At the time that since only 90
out OF every 1000 adult males in Japan serve
as conscripts, there could not be more than
11SS trained men among the $4,000 in Ha-
Wali.
Iii now tolerably evident that lone Not
Quite in the Dark wrote with the deliberate
Intention OF creating a false impress sion about
JRpsn's designs, ana that he took Sc
cure the ventilation of his falsehoods in
America by describing the Japan Herald as
1.-THE Government organ" This last stale
ment is only perversion of the truth, not an
original lie The Japan Herald is all Off Ella
organ, though on very limited scale. II
used to proclaim the fact very conspicuously.
but has ceased TO 40 so since Its official
patrons were reduced to ermany and one or
two other states OF Continental Europe. The
whole scheme of zone Not Quite in the Dark"
is about as dlsgraceful as they make them, but
he cnOse an appropriate medium ana by per-
sistent lying achieved modlcum OF success
The price of rice has advanced in Japan
and the poor people have risen in conse-
quence. A mob OF 1000 natives attacked
the KOno Rice mills. but were driven back
by the military. The next day they at
tackled the police station and did consi d.
cradle damage. Several of the rioterf
were wounded by the cendarmes.