The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-09-06
(Associated Press.)

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Admiral Edwin A. Anderson, COM
manding the United States Asiatic
fleet, says the latest unofficial re-
ports give the casualties at Toxic
and Yokohama as 100000 dead and
100000 injured.
Ten thousand persons, trapped by
fire in the yard of military cloth
ing factory in Toxic were burned to
death.
The fire in Toxic burned SO hours.
An area of Fl square miles is devas-
tated and 100000 houses destroyed.
A new volcano starts activity 80
miles northwest of Toxic.
The United States shipping board
steamer, City of Spokane, at Kobe,
Japan, ordered to give it's cargo, g.
/ 900 tons of flour, for relief.
Five hundred foreigners are esti-
mated dead at Yokohama. Only one
American known to have been killed
| in Toxic.
The United States torpedo boat de-
stroyer 211 was first to reach Kobe
to begin relief work.
Americans and British in Yoko-
hama plan burial of foreign dead at
sea.
Premier Yamamoto is using $780,
serve fund for relief.
Japanese government firmly sup
presses food profiteering at Osaka
and Kobe.
Two Japanese capital ships were
sunk at Yokosuka.
Eight hundred patients in the I'M
perial hospital at Toxic reported
burned to death.
The Chinese of Yokohama are with
out food or shelter and are in a pitt
able condition.
Foreign Legations Destroyed
San Francisco-(A. P.)-Embassies
and legations of various countries, in
Guiding the United States, England,
France, Italy, and China were de-
stroyed in the Japanese disaster, ac-
cording to a message from the Japan
ese foreign Office to Ambassador Hani-
hara, which was relayed here.
Third Relief Ship From Seattle
Seattle-(A. P.)-Seattle's third re-
lief ship, the Tyndareus, cleared for
Japan today with hundreds of tons
Of canned goods, medicines, and tents
purchased by the chamber of COM
merce. The Tyndareus is a faster
ship than the previous two and is
expected to be the first relief ship
from a continental American port
reaching Japan.
200 Foreigners Dead in Yokohama
Tokio-Yokohama is charnel
house, the canals and water front
are filled with dead and the stencil
from decomposing bodies is unbear-
able, according to refugees arriving
from the stricken city. 1t is esti-
mated that more than 200 foreigners
lost their lives there.
Most of the dead and injured
among the Yokohama foreigners were
those who were caught by the earth
quake and fire while shopping in the
downtown district. Thousands of
the terror stricken natives drowned
in the canals when seeking safety
from the raging inferno which fol-
lowed the temblor.
Revolutionary Forces Fight
Moscow-(A. P)-Dispatches from
Harbin and Peking say that the
Korean revolutionary elements in
Japan are taking advantage of the
catastrophe and have started armed
uprisings in Toxic, where there is
fighting in the streets.
Yokohama Center Of Earthquake
Osaka-(A. PA recapitulation
of the earthquake and fire area
showed that Yokohama was the cen
ter, extending about one hundred
miles north and south and hundred |
and forty miles east and west This
includes five large cities inhabited |
by seven million people. 1t is esti-
mated that seventy per cent of the |
cities and towns in the area were |
destroyed. Yokohama is totally de- |
and about one-fourth of |
Toxic remains.
Disaster is Unspeakable
Iwaki-(A. P)-Couriers returning |
from Toxic described the disaster !
there as being unspeakable. The city |
is three-fourths burned On the |
ponds in the parks are found charred, |
bodies floating like |
fishes" Within certain areas all |
things have been reduced to ashes i
except iron frames, and brick pillars.