Evening star., 1923-09-08
90 KILLED ON TRAIN.
One Is Described as American
Aide-de-Camp.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
OSAKA, September S.-A member
OF the staff Of the Toxic Newspaper
Asahi. who has just arrived from the
capitar says that between Hiratsuka
and Oiso stations on the Tokaido
railway he saw wrecked train, in
which twenty-six passengers had
been killed. including an American
aide e-de-camp and two German EN-
bassy secretaries.
! The fire which followed the earth
quake. the newspaper man related,
did not reach the uptown section of
ToAo, but put all, electric lights out
iof commission on Tuesday evening.
but 1t was believed II could be re-
/ stored within few days.
i Relief Corps Organized.
Immediately the news of the disr
aster reached neighboring cities,
surgeons, physicians and nurses be-
gan to organize relief corps.
Hundreds of refugees who fed from
water are reaching here daily and the
| problem of caring for them is taxing
the ingenuity OF the authorities.
Most of them are virtually destitute
| vide food and sleeping quarters for
them.
While it has been reported that
Prince Regent Hirihito intends. to
move TO the summer colony at
karuizawa or kyoto. he is still in
Toxic at the Akasaka detached
! palace.
! Damage to the telephone system in
| Toxic and vincity is estimated at
| 10000 yen. or $4,000. 1t was; said
! the work or bringing the system back
| to normal will require year or more
American Destroyer Firat.
| The first foreign warship to reach
Il fn ovth III L.
! American destroyer No. eli, which ar
! rived at Kobe yesterday. The cap
| tain OF this vessel conferred with
Kobe authorities regarding the most
efficient relief measures to be taken.
| The American steamer City of
Spokane left Kobe for Yokohama
| with 5000 tons of wheat to be used
! in relief work.
The Kobe Chamber OF Commerce has
accepted the proposal OF the governor
Of Eagano prefecture. center Of the
, silk industry. to make Kobe the silk
! exporting port Of ia pan 8 the result
/ Of conditions in Yokohama.
One hundred and twenty-nine for
Hakone, according to report receiv-
ed here from the British consulate at
! Kobe. A rescue party was dispatched I'd
to Haksne from Kobe.
500 Refugees Arrive.
! The Columbia Pacific ship Wes,
Aurora has arrived in Yokohama to as
sist in the relief of foreign residents
of Toxic and Yokohama.
Five hundred refugees, including
tbirty-one foreigners. arrived in Kobe
! by water, and more are reported to be
/ on their way there.
The situation at Toxic and Yokohama
i has begun to clear up. the government
through the army and police, taking
complete charge and bringing order OUT
| of what seemed endless chaos. Two
: telegraph lines between Osaka and
Toxic have been restored. and the traf-
| fc between various stricken cities is
! improving rapidly.
| The government has decided to cree,
| Immediately $4,000 shacks for the re-
| lief of earthquake sufferers whose
F.; homes were leveled. The rice supplies
/ are already beginning to come in. and
| the most needy refugees are being
given their first rations. Owing to the
shortage Of gasoline, movement of au-
! tomobiles and trucks has already
stopped. The authorities are com.
| Wandering gasoline wherever it is
found. The emperor and empress, at
; their villa in Nikko, are being kept in
close touch with the situation by means
of radiograms and messengers.
500 FOREIGNERS LOST