Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-02
OSAKA JAPAN
NJ ] | |: Y|'.D|'E::s;TR0YED.
Official Report on the Great Fire.
Places the Number Of Build
iings Burned at 1859.
CONFUSION g; y F STILL PREVAILS.
Thousands Thou s,1 Homeless and Facing
Hunger Conflagration Lasted
For Tsycnty-four Hours.

nGcr-Coilfiagration Lasted
For Tsycnty-four Hours.
| okio, Aug. Z, An official report on
the damage done in the great fire al
Osaka places the number of buildings
DESTROYED at II 36S. Including III office
buildings, eight schools. four banks, 10
business blocks and 20 temples.
There was but ono death due TO Ill
ness caused by the fire.. Three persons
We're seriously injured and six suffered
slight hurts. N
An investigation of the disaster has
I:been begun by the authorities. About
600 Of the Inhabitants are receiving
| public assistance
CONFUSION PREVAILS.
Osaka. Japan. Aug, 1.-Confusion still
prevails here as a RESULT Of Saturdays
DISASTROUS fire. Thousands of persons
are homeless and facing hunger. Az
| sSstenl OF relic has been organized by
the municipal lsautliorities, but 1t Is In
adequate to supply all needs Outside
cities and towns are generously send
ing in contributions 10 be used In al
| leriating sufferings of the homeless and
destitute
f'l1e 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 cdifices and factories.
while at present it is Impossible &c
curatelY to state the losses. these are
l. given roughl5s&at several million yen.
LIT lis feared that some insurance COM
lapanies vii fail as a result of heavy
losses they will have to pay.
The confiagration lasted more than
| % hours. In the burned sections, streets
are narrow and houses we're mostly OF
wood, Under n. strong breeze. there
fore, the buildings We're easy prey for.
/ the flames which jumped from one toS
anot herS with great raptdity Once
/ hope: INA S almost a bandoned hat the
l$conn grafton could be arrested. The
| firemen fought yaliantly against the
l3odds of lack of water2!a and high wind
and many fell unconscious while work
Ling. EHa "a mot the water supply been
tcurtailed by the existing drouth 1t Is
believed the fire would have been
ausnched without great damage.
Mi The greatest confusion prevailed
among working girls III the factory
quarter but no serious loss Of life re-
| suited there. IA s5552 f u
Property of people who were able to-
save anything from their burning
homes is piled in 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. fed 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 fremen and the troops in
! fighting the contlagratIon.
An area of more than four miles
square and containing some of the
| City's handsomest structures including
the Buddhist temple, the largest in the
| world. was entirely burned over be-
| fore the fire was brought under control.
/ The stock exchange, one of the most
important in this country. was entire
/ lyl destroyed This loss. it is believed,
will tend greatly to islocate tho busi-
| ness of Osaka, which with its manufac-i
turing concerns is one of the chief
commercial cities of Japan.
Women We're terror-stricken by the
| fire and fled hitl1er and thither with
tlleirchildren. some OF whom We're cry
\ ing for food that could not be obtained
! for them.
The emperor Is deeply concerned over
the disaster and 1t is believed that he
| will make a generous donation to the
relief fund and that his action will be
4 quickly followed by gifts from eharit-i
Fable people and institutions
ORDER NEARLY RESTORED.
Barcelona, Aug. Border is today
4 almost completely re-established in
4 barcelona proper, but the trouble con-
i tinues on the outskirts of the city.
4 Railroad communication with BARGE
1 Iona has not been re-established The
\ losses suffered By commerce during the
ripting Of the last week have been
i enormous and the destruction OF prop
/ erty has been great.
\ q Among the victims of the military
I courtmartial are two members of the
4 chamber of deputies and eight alder
i men of Barcelona.
EXECUTION DENIED.
i Madrid. July 81 1.-The mil.tary author
4 tiles today denied cateeorically that the
j rerolutionists sentenced to death at
Barcelona already have been executed
They say the sentences are awaiting
4 the npraval OF the minister of war and
i that In the meantime the prisoners gre
4 heinS held in the dungeons OF Forts
4 Monjuicli and Citaranus. Those of the
nrisoners who were wounded are in
/ hosnitals. ,5e
4 The government announces also that
tire work of restoring railroad commu-
1 nicetion in Catalonia is proceeding ac-
i lively AMI that the lines between Bar
1 calona. Cerbere. Saragossa and valen-
ria nrohahlY will be re-establlshed
"Wednesday
LISBON FREE THINKERS.
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