Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19
NEARLY MILLION AND HALF
PERSONS ON THE VERGE
OF STARVATION.
THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND
HOMES FELL IN QUAKE
Moratorium 10 Proclaimed by
Government as II Wars on Prof
Food Supplies in Tokyo and
kohama Are Said to Be inadeq

Washington, Sept. 10.-Each
report on the Japanese earthq
adds to the appalIingness of the
tastrophe and emphasizes its ex
The dead are now estimated al
tween 100000 and 100000 and til
jured at 100000 to 100000. Over
700 homes were destroyed.
This is the tenor of joint
ment issued by John Barton Payn
chairman of the executive comm
OF the Red Cross, and Secretary II
er. A survey of the needs of j
has made necessary a renewed ap
to the Red Cross chapters and q
doubling of efforts to obtain funds
statement declares.
The Red Cross executive COMM
spent all of the morning in confer,
with its staff on the problem of raj
contributions to the maximum
pushing the purchase and shipr
of relief supplies.
10000 Dead at Yokohama.
The number of dead at Yokoh
alone is now set at $4,000 in a r;
dispatch received by the Navy der
ment from Admiral Anderson of
Asiatic fleet, aboard his flagship,
Huron, which has arrived at that
The Red Cross has collected 3d.
300 thus far. With the third re
vessel due to sail, and with five
loaded, the drain upon the facilitie
the organization is increasing.
Osaka, Sept. S.-The police of To
have reported that up to Satur
morning inquests had been held
S2,564 bodies in the yard of the I
10 military clothing warehouse alol
According to the central meteorologl
cal station 1,039 shocks were recorded
from the first big shock on Saturda,
until Thursday morning at O'Clock
Danger of further serious shocks L
considered to be over.
Thousands of Dead Unburied.
Departure of foreigners continues
Enough food is being distributed t,
prevent starvation. Foreigners hav
sufficient for few days. Thousand
OF dead bodies are still lying unburied
Intense heat hinders salvage work
The water supply is good, but electri
lighting is restricted.
The latest report from Yokoham;
states that 200 foreign residents los
their lives. Charred corpses have beer
gathered temporarily on the site of TIN
wrecked Grand hotel and will be takel
later for burial to the foreign cemeter,
in Tokyo.
Awaits Relief Ships.
One week after it's great disaster al
Japan is watching the race of relic
ships against plague and famine TO
control Of her devastated areas.
Simultaneously with the arrival a
her ports of American ships bearin
much needed medical and food sun
plies, the nation was confronted Wit
the disturbing whisper that evidence
Of cholera had appeared in the vast
that was Yokohama.
Details are lacking as yet, but care
full medical supervision of arriving rel
ugees has been inaugurated.
1t is considered probable that case
of cholera have occurred due to con
gesti0n in refugee centers. The Yoke
hama relief bureau is making ever
effort to break up hordes of refugee
clustered in public parks and get then
under canvas in sanitary police camps
Roderick Matheson, who reache,
Kobe, said that the foreign Residential
section of Yokohama was nothing bu
mass # charred ruins and bodies.
"Of 200 guests in the Grand hotel,
said Matheson, flew were able to maxi
their escape when the earth tremor
began to rock the buildings. Many O
the foreigners were lunching at tn
United club. This building collanse,
and virtually every person in it los
his life.
Hotels Crash to Earth.
"The Oriental Palace hotel LITERAL,
sank into the earth and the guests ha,
no chance for their lives. The maiorit,
of the houses on the bluff colIapse1
with the first tremendous shock
Frantic appeals for help were hear,
from the ruins, but only in a few in
stances was it possible to render as
sistance.
"On the bluff overlooking the elf,
the Court and Cherrymeunt hotels
seemed to have been lifted from thei,
foundations and hurled into the ruin,
below. The Bluff hotel tumbled over
on the opposite side of the bluff"
1t is reported that e. Hamilton
Holmes, British consul general at 70
kehama, is dead, and that Prince Mat
sukata, who had been listed as dead
ic olixro