Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-09-13
over MILLION
NEEDY IN wake
OF BIG QUAKE
Three Hundred Thousand Homes
Were Destroyed; Plague Hits
Survivors.
MAKE WAR ON PROFITEERS
Battle On to Conquer Disease and
Famine-Food Supplies Inadequate
at Tokyo and Yokohama-Mor-
atorium Is Proclaimed by
the Government.

Osaka, Sept. 8.-The police of Tokyo
have reported that up to Saturday
morning inquests had been held on
1854 bodies in the yard of the Hon
10 military clothing warehouse alone.
Three emergency imperial ordi-
nances were promulgated. One pro-
Vides that persons found profteering
In essential commodities shall be liable
to three years Imprisonment or a fine
OF not more than 5000 yen. Another
establishes a thirty-day moratorium ex-
cept for payment of wages due, and
the third provides that persons found
guilty OF publishing or communicating
TO others rumors or statements likely
10 cause breaches of public order shall
be liable to imprisonment with penal
seryitude for no more than ten years
and fines up to 5000 yen.
Great Disorder at Tokyo.
The greatest disorder prevails at all
exits from Tokyo and in the frenzied
rush from the city weaker refugees
are trampled under foot. Every train
carries about 1000 refugees. Thurs
day alone nine trains left Akabane,
some miles north of Tokyo, with 10000
persons. 1t was raining and roof pas
sengers turned their parched mouths
skyward to catch drops. The suburbs
are indescribably overcrowded, but the
supply OF rations is improving.
According to the central meteorologi-
cal station 1,039 shocks were recorded
from the first big shock on Saturday
until Thursday morning at o'clock.
Danger Of further serious shocks is
considered to be over
Thousands of Dead Unburied.
Departure of foreigners continues.
Enough food is being distributed to
prevent starvation. Foreigners have
sufficient for a few days Thousands
Of dead bodies are still lying unburied.
Intense heat hinders salvage work.
The 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
later for burial to the foreign cemetery
in 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
her ports of American ships bearing
much needed medical and food sup
plies, the nation was confronted with
the disturbing whisper that evidences
of cholera had appeared in the waste
that was Yokohama.
Details are lacking as yet, but care
full medical supervision of arriving ref
ugees has been inaugurated.
1t is considered probable that cases
of cholera have occurred due to con-
gestion in refugee centers. The Yoko-
hama relief bureau is making every
effort to break up hordes of refugees
clustered in public parks and get them
under canvas in sanitary police camps.
Roderick Matheson, who reached
Kobe said that the foreign residential
section of Yokohama was nothing but
a mass Of charred ruins and bodies.
"Of 200 guests in the Grand HOTEL"
said Matheson, STEW were able to make
their escape when the earth tremors
began to rock the buildings. Many of
the foreigners were lunching at the
United club. This building collapsed
and virtually every person in it lost
his life
Hotels Crash to Earth.
1.-THE Oriental Palace hotel literally
sank into the earth and the guests had
no chance for their lives. The majority
of the houses on the bluff collapsed
with the first tremendous shock.
Frantic appeals for help were heard
from the ruins, but only in a few in
stances was it possible to render as
sistance.
ION the bluff overlooking the city
the Court and Cherrymount hotels
seemed to have been lifted from their
foundations and hurled into the ruins
below. The Bluff hotel tumbled over
on the opposite side Of the bluff"
Refugees on Crippled Liner.
Hongkong, Sept. 8.-The Canadian
Pacific steamship company agency
here received advices from the COM
pany's Kobe agent that, after being
fouIed by two steamers as result of