Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-09-15
JAPAN'S DEAD
OVER 100000,
U. S. FIGURES
Three Hundred Thousand Homes
We're Destroyed; Plague Hits
Survivors.
Make WAR ON PROFITEEES
Battle On to Conquer Disease and
Fsmine-Food Supplies Inadequate
at Tokyo and Yekohama-Mor.
atorium Is Proclaimed by
the Government.

Washington, Sept 10.-Each new
report on the Japanese earthquake
adds TO the appallingness of the ca
tasTophe and emphasizes its extent.
The dead are now estimated at be-
tween 100000 and 100000 and the in
jured at 100000 TO 100000. over 3l6,-
OO0 homes were destroyed.
This is the tenor Of joint state
ment issued by John Barton Payne, as
chairman of the executive committee
Of the Red Cross, and Secretary Hoov-
er, survey of the needs of japan
has made necessary a renewed appeal
to the Red Cross chapters and a re-
doubling of efforts to obtain funds, the
statement declares.
The Red Cross executive committee
spent all Of the morning in conference
with its staff on the problem of raising
contributions to the maximum and
pushing the purchase and shipment
Of relief supplies.
$4,000 Dead at Yokohama.
The number of dead at Yokohama
alone is now set at $4,000 in a radio
dispatch received by the Navy depart
ment from Admiral Anderson of the
Asiatic fleet, aboard his flagship, the
Huron, which has arrived at that port.
The Red Cross has collected S3,547,-
900 thus far. With the third relief
vessel due to sail, and with five more
loaded, the drain upon the facilities Of
the organization is increasing.
Osaka, Sept. 8.-The police of Tokyo
have reported that up to Saturday
morning inquests had been held on
52'o64 bodies in the yard Of the Hon
10 military clothing warehouse alone.
According to the central meteoroIogi-
cal station 1,039 shocks were recorded
from the first big shock on Saturday
mtil Thursday morning at 6 o'clock.
Danger Of further serious shocks is
considered to be owe.
Thousands n Dead Unburled.
Departure of foreigners continues.
Enough food is being distributed to
prevent starvation. Foreigners have
sufficient for few days. Thousands
of dead bodies are still lying unburied.
intense heat hinders salvage work.
me water supply is good, but electric
lighting is restricted.
The latest report from Yokohama
states that 200 foreign residents lost
their lives Charred corpses have been
gathered temporarily on the site of the
wrecked Grand hotel and will be taken
'aler for burial to the foreign cemetery
Ia Tokyo.
Awaits Relief Ships.
One week after its great disaster all
Japan Is watching the race of relief
ships against plague and famine for
control Of her devastated areas.
simultaneously with the arrival at
ueF ports of American ships bearing
much needed medical and food sup
plies the nation was confronted with
me disturbing whisper that evidences
q cholera had appeared In the waste
mat was Yokohama.
Details are lacking as yet. but care
iui medical supervision Of arriving ref
usees has been inaugurated.
II is considered probable that cases
Vi q, era have occurred due to con-
s-S'''l In refugee centers. The Yoko-
d LA relief bureau is making every
e-'QH 70 break up hordes of refugees
clustered In public parks and get them
llaer canvas in sanitary police camps.
Aoderick Matheson, who reached
A'De said that the foreign residential
@euon Of Yokohama was nothing but
mass Of charred ruins and bodies.
" ZOo guests in the Grand hotel"
said Aatheson, few were able to make
AeF escape when the earth tremors
gegan to rock the buildings. Many of
ne foreigners were lunching at the
1a.ted club. This building COLLAPSED
sa' virtually every person in 1t lost
Hotels Crash to Earth.
lhe Oriental Palace hotel literally
saa4 INTO the earth and the guests had
~ eaauee for their lives. The majority
'ne houses on the blum COLLAPSED
wa the first tremendous shock.
.. .alue appeals for help were heard
~e.l the ruins, but only in a few in
a1.+s vas it possible to render a..
On the blur overlooking the city
curt and Cherrymount hotels
-ea 70 have been lifted from their
-aso1s and hurled into the ruins
The Bluff hotel tumG.ed over
- opposite side Of the blum"