The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-08-02
1SlRA. JAPAN,
SnOLDERING
IN HER RUINS
rasnN Thousand Buildings Go
lpin Smoke and MyriadS
Are DeSolate.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE,
BUT NUMBER UNKNOWN
,,seFsT BUDDHIST TEMPLE IN
,yosl D FELL PREY TO FLAMES
BELIEF FUND is STARTED.

ossks. japan, Aug. Confusion still
ellis here as a result Of Saturdays
s....--71s fire. Thousands of persons
-. bomaless and facing hunger.
system Of relief has been organized
So .5a municipal authorities, but it is
,-.s.7uata to supply all needs. Outside
-.,;ss and towns are generously sending
~ contributions to be used in allevi-
--s-g distress of the homeless and des-
trute
hen determined, but hundreds Of in
tr-s5 are cr0Wding this place.
Estimate Of Losses.
The latest estimates are that 10000
b-T7frgs were destroyed, these includ-
rg hanks. stock exchange. museum,
g7rarnmeut edifices and factories. While
~ rresent it is impossible accurately TO
STATE the losses. these are given roughly
Of several million yen. It is feared that
some insurance companies viii fail as
a result of heavy losses they viii have
20 nay.
The couflagration lasted more than
Twenty-Five hours In the burned sec
.f5n streets are narrow and houses were
mostly of wood Under a strong breeze,
therefore. tie buildings were easy prey
for the flames. WAich jumped from one
10 another with great rapidity. Once
F1Da was almost abandoned that the
arfaCr8tiU could be arrested. The
rr7me1 fought vaiiantly against the
odds of lack of water and high wind,
and many fell unconscious while work
mz Had not the water supply been
urtails5 by the existing dTOuth it is
believed the fire would have been ex-
tiuguishei without great damage.
The greatest confusion prevailed
among working girls in the factory dis
ti-t but no serious loss of life resulted
there
Saving the Household Goods.
Property of people who were able to
save anything from their burning homes
is piled in great heaps along the rail
road tracks from Osaka to Kobe, where
it was removed early Saturday morn
ing At dawn Sunday thousands Of
persons heavily laden with household
effects fled across the numerous canal
bridges and away from the fire zone.
When they had reached safety the bur
dels were laid down and able bodied
members Of families returned TO the city
70 assist i'm fighting the flames, leaving
tha old people 10 guard their effects.
AID Saturday and far into the night the
population assisted the fiTemen and the
troops i'm fighting the fire.
Buddhist Temple Burned.
An area more than four miles square,
containing some of the city's handsOm-
est structures, including the Buddhist
temple the largest in the world, was
entirely burned over before the fire was
brought under control
The stock exchange, one Of the most
important in this country, was entirely
destroyed. This loss, it is believed, VIII
Tend greatly to dislOcate the business
OF Osaka, which, with its manufacturing
concerns, is one of the chief CONNER
cal cities Of Japan.
women were terror stricken by the
lre and fed hithcr and thither with
theT children, some of whom were cry
ing for food that could not be obtained
for them.
he emperor is deeply concerned over
lle disaster, and it is believed that he
"Al make a generous donation to the
relief fund, and that his action will be
quickly followed by gifts from char
I'ao.e people and institutions.
CII-panclngO also has been practically
-l- cd What the earthquake Friday
-a.ltl Jo DO, was accomplished by the
.-oii iseI one yesterday, which leveled or
~ l---ie1 unnhabitable every building in
,5 Two places. All Of the markets at
.a.apl -c3 were destroyed in the shocks OF
'11t-.-eay and the country people are
,-1 20 bring more produce into the
,t."A- me people are camping in the pub
-'- ~ stIdfes ana have no food.
ne -I5 lew buildings standing are being lev
.tt-L 05 dynamite, as they are little more
.L - lettering walls that fall as new
,.-L'ls the heavy shock yesterday the
Sel.el 20 the harbOr receded thirty-three
- ana then rushed back, covering the
49, ana piers, causing considerable
-l---asr. The people are suffering from
1g-slfe The tents in the public squares
~ -- streets do not serve to keep off the
rsa's rains which fall at this season.
-, 4I.-s are being raised in Mexico City to
'rt-1'e the distress Of Guerrero.
III IN Mexico City Saturdays shock was
gs .-l. -l8n any yet experienced. So far
a--sNh no lives were lost in the latest
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