Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-02
OSAKA JAPAN
NEARLY DESTROYED.
Official Report on the Great Fire
Places the Number Of Build
i1gs Burned at III, 1868.
CONFUSION STILL PREVAILS
Homeless and Facing
Hunger conflagration Lasted
For T:ycnty-four Hours.

Hunger, onflagration Lasted
For Isycnty-four Hours
Toxic, Aug. 2 An official report on
the damage done In the great fire at
Osaka places the number of buildings
DESTROYED at 1858, including III office
buildings, eight schools. four banks, 10
business blocks and 90 temples.
! There was but one death due to Ills
ness le:s caused by tile fire. Three persons
We're seriously injured and six suffered
slight hurts. II
An investigation of the disaster has
been begun by the authorities About
500 Of the inhabitants are receiving
public assistance.
CONFUSION PREVAILS.
Osaka. Japan. Aug. IL Confusion still
prevails here; as. a! result of Saturdays
disastrous fire. Thousands of persons
are homeless and facing hunger. vi
system of! relief has been organized by
the municipal authorities, but 1t is in
ADEQUATE to supply all needs. Outside
cities and towns are generously send
ling in contributions to be used in al-s
I5leviating sufferings Of the homeless and
destitute.
rhe. number of casualties has not yet
been determined but hundreds of in
jnred are $crowding this place.
The latest estimates are that 10000
buildings We're destroyed these includ-
ing banks, stock exchange, museum,
government edifices and factories.
While at present 1t is impossible ac-
given roughly at several million yen.
1T is feared that some insurance com
panies will fail as a result Of heavy
losses they Will have to pay
The confiagration lasted more than
S253hours. In the burned sections, streets
are narrow and houses We're mostly OF
wood. Under a strong breeze there
the flames, which Jumped from one to-
another with great rapiiity. Once
hope was almost abandoned that the
conflasration could be arrested. The
flemen fought svaliantly against the
odd Of lack of water and high wind
and many fell unconscious while work.
ing Had not the wat er supply been
believed the fire would have been
quenrlled without great damage.
It The greatest confusion prevailed
among working girls IN the factory
quarter but no serious loss OF life re-
suited there. 81
Properly Of people who were able to
save anything from their burning
homes is piled i'll great heaps along the
railroad tracks from Osaka to Kobe,
where they We're removed early Satur-
day morning.. At dawn Sunday thous-
ands of persons, heavily laden with
household effects. fled across the num-
erous canal bridges and away from
the fire zone. When they had reached
safety the burdens We're laid down and
able bodied members of the families
returned to the city to assist in fight
ing the flames, leaving the old people
to guard their effects. All Saturday
and far into the night the population
assisted the firemen and the troops in
fighting the $confiag grafton.
An area of more than four miles
square and containing some of the
icity's handsomest structures. including
the Buddhist temple the largest in the
| world, was entirely burned over be-
l5fore the fire was brought under control
The stock exchange, one of the most
| Important in this country. was entire
| lyI destroyed. This loss. 1t Is believed,
| Will Islu SlSdIlS tiOEtllStONhIca LIE UuSl-
! ness of Osaka. whiol2with its lnanufac-B
turing concerns. is one of the chief
commercial cities Of Japan.
| Women We're terror-Stricken by the
| fire and fed hither and thither with
| their children. some OF whom We're cry
| ing for food that could not be obtained
for them. q ia 81 a.
the disaster and It is believed that he
will make q generous donation to the
relief fund and that his action will be
quickly followed by gifts from ellarit-
able people and institutions.
ORDER NEARLY RESTORED.
Barcelona, Aug. 2.-order is today
almost completely re re: in
| barcelona proper. but the trouble con-
| tinues on the outskirts OF the city
lRailroad communication With BARGE
4 Iona has not been re-established, Tho
I! losses suffered BY commerce during the
| rioting of the last week have been
| enormous and the destruction OF prop
erty has been great.
Among the victims of the military
| courtmartial are two members of the.
chamher of DEPUTIES and eight alder
men OF Barcelona.
EXECUTION DENIED.
Madrid, July 81 The miltary au thor
| tiles today denied ca tegorically that the
| revolutionists sentenced TO death at
1 barcelona already have been executed.
They say the sentences are awaiting
the aproval OF the minister of war and
that IN the meantime the prisoners gre
heing held II, the dungeons OF Forts
/ Monjuich and Citaranus. Those of the
prisoners who were wounded are In
/ l.osritals
The government announces also that
the work of restoring railroad conlmu-
nico ton in Catalonia is proceeding ac-
lively and that the lines between Bar
calora Cerbere. SaraRossa and valen-
4 eta prpI,ably will be re-estabiished
/ Wednesday.