Evening star., 1923-09-05

entire Yokohama consulate general
staff, had been accounted for. An
other, received simultaneously. de-
clared Miss Martin (William F.)
Mason and Vice Consul Leo D..
Sturgeon" are safe and well.
Vice Consul Paul E. jerks, men,
Der OF the Yokohama consulate. is
reported both from Kobe and Lon
dom to have been killed, and Vice
Consul {. G. Babbitt and his entire
family are declared to be dead.
Confirm ConsuIx Death.
Further confirmation of the death
of Consul General Max D. Kirjassoff
and his wife was received in official
dispatches. although their two chill
dren are said to be safe at Kobe.
From the most reliable information
obtainable, the American consulate
general 1t Yokohama was demoIish-
ed and its staff virtually wiped out.
The American consul at Kobe wired
the State Department, under date of
September 4. that the only known
survivor of the Yokohama staff is
Vice Consul Wardell. His dispatch
which was forwarded to Washington
by Edward Bell. charge d'affaires in
Peking, added that the consulate had
been completely destroyed and Con-
sui General Kirjassoff killed.
Naval Hospital CoIIapxcs
The dispatch added that the naval
hospital at Yokohama collapsed dur
ing the earthquake and Commanded
of the staff were said to have been
killed and the State Department was
urgently requested to have a fast
naval vessel rushed to the scene to
who are said to be near death from
exposure. T. De Jordin, the French
consul at Yokohama, also was report
ed to have been killed.
Announcement in Amba ssador
Woods message that communica tions
between Toxic and Yokohama had
been partially restored was received
with relief at the State Department.
1t is believed that full and authentic
news of the fate of all Americans in
in a short time now. Woods dis
patch was filed in Toxic but was sent
by wireless from Iwaki.
Sets Loss at 10000.
1t follows:
Communications have just been
opened up with Yokohama. The situ-
alton there is exceedingly serious and
some Americans are reported to have
lost their lives. The casualties in
Toxic are estimated at, 10000. l be
The food situation Is acute. Send
supply from Philippines at once. as
already suggested"
Consul H. b. Hitchcock cabled from
Nagasaki corroboration of Ambassa-
dor Woods statement that Toxic had
not been as hard hit as Yokohama,
where two houses were reported to
be all that Is left standing. He wired
that clearer reports of the situation
were being published in Nagasaki and
that yokohama has suffered rela-
lively worse than TOXIC" Relief work
in Yokohama is being organized by
the American consuls from Nagasaki
and Kobe and the British consul from
Nagasaki.
Scout Island Disappearance.
The State Department is receiving
! scores of kilograms from all over the
country, inquiring after persons believed
to have been in the quake sectors. Many
inquiries regarding the safety of Prof
Henry Fairfield Osborn, and Mrs Os-
born of New York. were noted. Both
are safe in Shanghai, according to a
|cablegram received from John X. Davis,
American consul there.
Reports that the Bonin Islands. OF
the coast of Japan, had disappeared be-
meath the sea were at least partially de-
MED in dispatches received here today
from the Postal" Telegraph Company in
New York. 1t reported that its cable
station on Peel island, one of the group
had spoken to Its station on the island
of Guam repeatedly since the catas-
trophe. The Commercial Pacific Cables