Evening star., 1923-09-11
TYPHUSBREAkSOUT
IN TOXIC HOSPITALS;
DEATH LIST GROWS
$4,000 Bodies Found in Yo-
kohama - Crematories
Kept Busy.
HUNDREDS BURIED ALIVE
BY ToPPLING MOUNTAINS
Charred Corpses Found in Groups.
Other Scores Died From
Suffocation.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
TOXIC. September s (Via Osaka).
-Typhus and other epidemics have
hospitals and in the conductors
quarters of the Aoyama Tramay.
where 500 sick and wounded have
been collected Many of the earth
quake victims who were disinfected
were removed to a temporary hospital
established at the Ueno exposition
site. ~-..
Six big emergency crematories
have been established and the ere
nation of bodies is proceeding night
and day "r...s -'-'e---
II is said that approximately 1oO.-
600 refugees are leaving the capital
each day.
Three-Fourths of Houses UseIess.
Probably three-fourths of the
houses in Toxic are uninhabitable,
for while but half of the capital was
destroyed, the other half was
damaged severely.
The thousands who are sleeping
out no doubt prefer this. since earth
quakes continue. some of them rather
sharp. Sleep for the stricken
people is next tp impossible.
Arrivals from the Hakone noun
tains describe the remarkable effect of
the earthquake there. where noun
tains toppled. filling up their valleys
and burying alive many hundreds of
persons.
in Toxic some frightful scenes are
being disclosed as the debris is clear
ed away. Charred bodies are found in
groups where the people thought
they would be safe from falling tiles
ordinarily the greatest menace to
pedestrians in Japanese earthquakes.
VIII Take Weeks to Dispose of Dead.
1t will take weeks to dispose of
the dead in Toxic. Yokohama and In
the surrounding villages, that suffered
equally with the larger cities.
The Kawasaki manufacturing GEN.
ter was wiped out. 1t included the
shops Of fhs General Electric Com {.
pariy, the Truscon Steel Company and
other concerns in which American capi-
tai is invested.
Despite the privations, horrors and
damages suffered in TOXIC, life here
Is returning to normal Rickshaws
have reappeared on the streets. Street
cars. however. on, which the poorer
depend. remain on the tracks where
they came to a standstill with the
nrSt tremendous earth shock at noon
september ]. They are inhabited n ow
by refugees, chiefly those i'll.
The people are remaining remark
ably patient under the most trying
circumstances.
23.0OO Bodies Recovered.
Foreigners have had food enough,
despite the general shortage Of sta
pies. officials promise continued i'm
provement in the rationing. Relief
supplies are arriving in large quanti-
ties.
Throughout the week following the
disaster long lines of people walked
the streets all day long, some with
the older people resting, together with
the baggage, on hand-drawn carts.
Some were making for known desti-
nations; others wandered aimlessIy.
The newspapers soon began issu-
ing fly sheets" their editors ap-
as far at sea regarding the
extent and details of the cata strophe
as the populace.
Twenty-three thousand bodies have
been recovered in Yokohama. OF the
10000 homeless in that city at least
half are said to have departed. The
of those who remained is
Barracks for Homeless.
The street cars in Toxic have re-
sumed operation from the financial
district to the western suburbs. Tenn
porary barracks to care for the home
less are being erected in various parts
OF the city. a separate department
of the government has been establish
ed to take charge of the reconstruc-
tion of the capital.
Brig. Gen. Frank R. Mccoy OF the
United States Army has arrived and
begun the assembling of Filipino
residents in Toxic who desire to re-
turn to the Philippines. Most of them
are students, however, and so far few
have been made to re-
turn home.
investigation by the authorities of
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