The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-04-25
GREAT FIRE
IN JAPAN
Over 5000 Houses
Are Burned
Down.
SUBSIDENCE
OF THE EARTH
Snow PeriI-Comins Naval Ma
Chastity Cat
Story.

VYOkohAMAs ApfH 10 - - HlIe
over 5000 houses In Fukui City
u were burned down on Sunday
morning. The confiagration broke out
at $50 and was put out at IL o'clock
The Ninety-second bank. the branches
OF the Ohwada, the Fifty-seventh and
the Twelfth banks. and the police sta
tion. the Higashi Honganji branch tenn
pies, the post and telegraph Office. two
theaters. twenty temples. two bazaars.
two newspaper offices and almost all
the other important establishments
were destroyed. The One Hundred and
Thirtieth banks branch was saved Ac-
cording to a telegram received here a
strong southerly wind which was then
prevailing seems to have caused the
fire to spread to this terrible extent.
The confagration has caused a seri-
Gus loss to the insurance companies In
Osaka. The Nippon Fire Insurance
Company had policies amounting TO |
$50. 600 yen on the destroyed buildings. |
the Osaka Fire Insurance 100000 yen
and Nippon Shuzo Fire Insurance an
other 100000 yen. The managers OF
.pthese companies left Osaka for Fukui
as soon as they received a telegram Of
the fire. According to a Kyoto teie-
gram, the Higashi Honganji despatched
ten priests to Fukui on Sunday. 1t Is
reported that the idol OF Buddha was
saved from the fire. Lord Abbot of the
temple will give up the intention OF
going to Fukui on the 18th inst, In or
der to hold a religious ceremony. as
had been arranged beforehand
According to a later report the losses
suffered by various fire insurance COM
panies owing TO confagrations are esti-
mated as follows: The Tokyo Fire In
surance. 100000 yen. the Nippon 10000
yen. the MeIji 10000 yen. the Osaka 49,
90 yen. the Yokohama 10000 yen. the
Shuzo 1900 yen. and some smaller fire
insurance companies 10000 yen in all.
The fire was. at 1:t0 D. m. OF the day.
still raging at FuJishima-mura. Yoshi-
mately known that there had been six
persons burned TO death. sixteen seri-
ousIy and $50 slightly wounded Eighty
and nine houses were leveled to the
ground In Yoshida-gori and Asuha-goH
respectively. The cause OF the fire was
the upsetting OF lamp in the house
Of Ryo Tokuyama. a habutae manufac-
turer living at Nakamachi in the town
TIE number OF houses destroyed by
the confiagration at Fukui Is not yet
accurately known. but a later report
sas IL at 1890: that is. one-third OF the
total number in the city. which had
II .oSo houses. The loss in property Is
estimated at some 100000 yen
LAND sUBSIDENCE.
The repeated Investigations made by
Mr.. Inamura geologist, into the strange
persistent inclinations OF the magnetic
needle periodically observed recently.
ACCOMPANIED by shocks at the observa-
tory set by Prince Yamashina on the I
top of Mount Tsukuba. have resulted in
tracing the cause to the subsistence
of the earth on the mount and its vi
cinIty. This kind OF chronological mo-
tIon Is said to- be very rare in japan,
where earthquakes have heretofore
been attributed to the dislocation OF
strata and volcanic action. with the
sirnpIe execution of the recent phenom-
ena at Rokkosan. near Kobe. which
created a year or two ago sort or
panic among the inhabitants OF the ad-
Joining places. This phenomena was
traced by Professor OmOri and MT I'm
anura to the subsistence OF earth: IL
fs said that the dispatch or Mr. ina
rnur, to Tsukuba was the result OF the
F.mperor's suggestion. His Majesty
having heard OF the strange inclina-
tion OF the needle. advised Prince Yam
asthma to send some competent expert
to carry out Investigations
A NoBLEMAN ROBBED.
In November last the safe In the res
idease OF Marquis TOkugawa Ga man
who would have been ruler of the ma
ton except for the revolution OF 1861
was broken open by somebody and over
1sss yen in cash was distracted The