Evening star., 1923-09-17
SEATTLE TAKES IN
QUAKE SURVIVORS
Six of Miserable Lot Rushed
to Hospitals in Bad Shape.
Tell of Horror.
Rr the Assnciatcd Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Wash, September H.
Six survivors of the Yokohama earth
quake, suffering severe injuries and
shock as the result of their expert
ences, were rushed TO hospitals here
yesterday upon the arrival OF the
steamer President jefferson. APP
proximately twenty-five others, less
seriously hurt, are recovering in
their rooms at Seattle hotels or al
the homes of friends here. The list
of seriously injured Includes:
Mrs G. W. Glendon, 1906 4th ave-
nue., Richmond, Va; crushed leg, am
putation probably necessary; condi-
tion serious.
Mrs. N. $. Dreher. 1872 Dykeman
street, Brooklyn, y. v; lung bruises.
II. NJ. . Starr, 26 Broadway. New
York, crushed foot
CASTOR de Bearn, son of Prince de
Bearn, counselor of the French EN-
bassy at Toxic, fractured vertebrae;
condition serious.
America opened her doors in quiet
pity to the first of the victims of
pinched-faced survivors, carrying all
their worldly possessions in little
bundles done up in handkerchiefs,
towels and bits Of paper. disembarked ed
from the President Jefferson.
First ship From scenes.
The Jefferson, ten days out from
Yokohama and the first vessel with
earthquake victims to reach an Amer
lean shore, arrived at o'clock yes
terday morning, but il was four hours
later before the tired passengers be-
gan to disembark. Ambulances hur-
ried the six seriously injured to hos
pitfalls and taXicabs and private cars
carried others to hotels or home in
Seattle.
There was no formal reception, but
hundreds of onlookers, friends and
relatives, customs and immigration
officials, wharf employees and steam
ship officials, with Red Cross physt-
clans and nurses and a few Of the
idly curious greeted the passengers
as they left the ship.
OF those who landed. six were seri-
ously injured or suffering from eX-
posure and shock, twenty-five others
were caring for minor hurts and
destitute. These latter were taken in
charge by the Seattle chapter of the
Red Cross until such time when
they could get in touch with
realtfves or friends or find work and
begin life over. Thirty-three sur
vivors left the vessel at Victoria,
E. G.
Few had been able to save any of
their personal belongings as they
hurried from the stricken Japanese
cities, and many wore borrowed gar
ments when they left the jefferson
Members of the vessels crew loaned
clothing to those who had escaped
in only scantys attire, and in addition
gave up their berths.
Some of the passengers who went TO
sleep last night with scarcely enough
money to purchase cigarettes, awakened
this morning to find that they had been
well provided for. Within a few hours
after the Jefferson's arrival telegraph
companies had delivered money trans
fers aggregating in the neighborhood
of $4,000.
Fifteen days after the greatest dis
aster in recent history the men and
women who lived it and suffered it and
watched the great cities of Japan razed
by earthquake, typhoon and fire, were
unable to give any comprehensive pic
ture of the destruction. 1t was too
sudden, too violent, too terrible. Their
pictures were the personal ones-a hus-
band dying in the wreckage of home,
child lost somewhere in the blazing
mass of Yokohama, the crumpling of
great buildings into heaps of twisted
material. It was havoc, but the sur
vivors of it had no cross sections They