Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-17
VOLCANO AGAIN
VENTS FURY ON
STRICKEN CITY
More Buildings Destroyed in
KagOsiiima by Sakura-Jima's
Fresh EruptiOns.
PEOPLE FLEEING FROM
DOOMED JAPANESE CITY
Entire Population of Village Be-
lieved to Be Buried, Like
in Pompeii.

kAGOSHIMA, Japan, Jan. 1.-Two
further violent eruptions of the vol-
cano Sakura-Jima. accompanied by
a severe earthquake, occurred last
night. causing the collapse OF many
more buildings.
Numbers OF the inhabitants OF
Kagoshima who had returned fed
again in terror from the city Ashes
are falling tbiekly today.
The sun looked like ball of blood
over Kagoshima today. but it gave
no light, and the darkness was such
that night signals had TO be en-
ployed on the railroads. The dying
dust was so thick that the few
pedestrians on the streets making
their way 10 the outskirts Of the city
had to cover their mouths and noses
with towels and handkerchiefs to pre-
vent suffocation
The sea in the gulf of Kagoshirna
seemed to be boiling and the quantity
of floating pumiee stone was so great
that it prevented navigation.
Refugees Starving When Picked Up.
Bluejackets from the japanese feet
today discovered a native craft con-
tanning sixteen refugees from Sakura
who were in a starving condition.
They reported that owing TO the float
ing masses of pumice stone and the
high seas they had been unable to
steer their boat and had spent three
days adrift at the mercy of he ele-
ments and without a morsel of food.
The bluejackets were able to reach
them only by using a wedge-shaped
raft with which they pierced field
Of pumice stone resembling ice floes.
Lava today was flowing steadily
down the side of the volcano TO the
sea. increasing. the are of the island
as it solidifed on reaching the water.
1t is still impossible to give any
thing like an approximate estimate
of the number of victims OF the re-
cent eruptions. earthquakes and tidal
waves. Some officials here express
the hope that almost all escaped from
Sakura- Others are less optimistic.
Village Buried Like Pompeii.
Professor Fusakiehi Omori. the seis-
mologist. pointing today to the village
i of Yokohoma on Sakura, where 400
/ houses lie buried IN lava, said. Are
i the people buried there as in Pom :
peii?r and answered himself: Only
1 the future can replr7
Many refugees are reported to have
been driven insane as result OF
/ terror and exposure.
Oyer a million letters and eight
! thousand kilograms are lying in
I Kagoshima awaiting delivery.
I TOXIC, Jan. 17.-An indication that
the loss of life on the island Of
/ Sakura, which was devastated by
the eruption OF the volcano Sakura-
Jima, may be much larger than had
been supposed, is given in a report
received here today from an official
of the interior department who was
sent to kagoshima and its vicinity
to investigate He reports that 5000
out of Sakuras 5 estimated population
of $1,000 had been accounted for up
to the evening of the sixteenth
T Other refugees, il is expected, will
be found in other directions. but the
loss of life evidently was extremely
heavy.
Measures for the relief of the suf y
ferers from famine in the north and
eruptions in the south are rapidly as
suming shape now that the extent OF
the disaster is more definitely known.
A relief association, national in
scope. has been organized here and
has issued the following appeal for
help:
One Disaster After Another.
Heaven has brought us disaster.
one after another While the suffer-
ing from famine in the northeast
has not yet been relieved another
calamity has occurred in Kiushiu.
"The northeast. poorly favored by
nature, sustained many afflictions IN
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