Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-17
VOLCANO AGAIN
SCATTERS RUIN
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the past and is becoming impover-
isfred. 1t is now suffering a great
famine and its people are eating only
wild fruits and herbs to stay their
hunger Snow covers the land, add
ing to the suffering.
1--WE were planning to relieve this
distress when news came of the erup-
zion in the south, with people buried
in lava or so scorched with fiery
ashes that they had no time to save
their nearest relatives. No greater
calamity can be imagined"
The statement ended with an ap-
peal to sympathizers for donations.
Bishop Walter Andrews, of the
English church in Hok-kaido, the
famine stricken district, writes that
the suffering everywhere is intense.
The farmers, he says, are hit hardest
and their families are eating soups
made of chopped straw, leaves and
rotten potatoes and meat taken from
cats, dogs and fish. The more for
tunate have a thin cruel made OF
rice or wheat.
The net results, he writes, are
many deaths from cold and starva-
ton and an increase OF crime ana
beggars. Many girls, he declares,
| have been sold into slavery. He tells
sick from lack of food.
Fiye-Foot Thick stones Hurled Altar.
The investigator of the department
of the interior, who wired the gov
eminent this morning regarding the
number of survivors from the island
Of Sakura reports that he saw pum-
| ice stones three and five feet In
diameter that had been vomited
from the bowels of the earth. Lava
mounds are forty feet high.
Members of a party rescued from
cave recounted how they saved them
selves from being roasted alive by
holding thick boards. on their neaas,
Japanese umbrellas having shriveled
few minutes after their frightfui
flight began. They were in the cave
for three days and expected death
every minute of the time. They had
no food but found some drinking
water
KAGoSHIMA, Jan. 1T.-Professor
Omori. the Japanese seismolog1st VINO
arrived here yesterday. circled the
island Of Sakura today and founo
a pronounced physical change. huge
molten rocks formed range INTO tne
sea. practically plocklng lhe ooS
across to Osumi.
MANY dwellings, remain in perfect
condition on the northern coast. but
on the devastated eastern coast ashes
and lava reached to the caves OF the
houses. Many new hills have sprung
into existence.
The professor saw a woman IN the
shore, but when he spoke to her she
fed wildly into the interior. She was
undoubtedly insane. Horses and cat
tie. dogs and cats swarmed IN tne
vicinity Of one damaged house he
saw.
The new craters formed on Sakura-
lima are still pouring volumes OF
smoke In the direction of Osumi.
About seven-tenths of the island is a
desert Of lava and the remaining land
is in such a hopeless condition tnat
ii must be abandoned
Fifteen hundred of the 1000 houses
on the island were buried. The ssti-
mated damage on this account IS ten
million ven (S5, 900, O00). How to deal
with the islanders is a great problem.
the professor says. but evidently they
must migrate
Professor Omori thinks the entire
volcanic range of Kiushiu has entered
upon a period of activity that recurs
every sixty years and that eruptlons
NAV be expected at any time. espe-
ciaily from the volcano Unzen, eight
miles from Obima, In the prefecture
Of Nagasaki. The Geologist Okada is
of the opinion that Sakura-Jima will
continue in eruption for a month.
NEW YORK, Jan TIA special
meeting of the executive COMMITTEES
OF the Japan Society was held yester-
day to consider action TO be taken in