Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-06
AMERICAN FAMILY
IN DEATH LIST Of ]
JAPANESE HORROR
Many Japanese BattIeships
Went to the Bottom Dur
ing UpheavaI, According to
MoscoW's Report


sy here received a telephone mes.
sage today from Princess Kitashira-s
kawa, in Paris saying she had rcceiv'
ed information that the dowager
princess. Yasmashina, Princess
Hiroko Kanain and Prince Moro
masa, members of the imperial fam
lily, are dead in Toxic as result OF
the earthquake.
A Central News dispatch. from
says it is feared that Mix
ko, the health resort at which the
Japanese empress has been staying
during the summer, was destroyed
with terrible loss of life. Nilxko is
approximately 80 miles southeast Of
Niygati.
DR.. Wheeler and a Mr.. Mollison,
prominent British residel of Yoke.
hama, and the French consul there,
are among the dead, a Central News
dispatch says.
From the same, source it is learned
that all foreigners staying at My \
anoshita are safe with the exception
of the Japanese residents of Toxic
and Yokohama are returning to
those cities, but they are being dis
suaded in this course by the authori-
ties.
The British consul at Kobe reports
that thousands of foreign refugees
are arriving there, but that the de-
tails of the disaster are lacking, al
though it is confirmed that there
was great loss of life in Toxic and
Yokohama.
The American steamship Selma
City is reported to have been dam
aged during the upheaval and to
have run ashore near Yokohama
Suzuki and company, Japanese mer.
chants in London, have informed
Lloyd's that as far as they could as-l
certain, there was no great loss Of
to shipping from the earthquake.
MANY JAP WARSHIPS
REPORTED DESTROYED
MOSCOW, Sept. 5.-(By the ~Asso-
ciated Press )-Reports received here
a result of the submarine convul.
sions attending the earthquake,
new island thirty miles long and fiji
teen miles in width has sprung up
in the sea off Yokohama.
Many big battleships were sunk
according to the reports; the coast
line was considerably altered and
seabed changed,
The crew of an American trans
port while engaged in recovering
bodies, found that of the French
vice consul, NJ. Valentine.
1t is reported from Pekin that tho
number of refugees exceeds two mil
lion.
ATTACHE AND
ALL FITS FAMILY KILLED
NAGASAKI,- Sept. 5.-(By the AS.
ISOLATED Press 1.-The family of the
American commercial attache at Yo-
E. G. Rabbit, are all dead.
T. Dejordin, the French consul at
Yokohama also was killed in the
quake.
BOYD SPENCER
HEARD FROM; is SAFE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-Williani
Boyd Spencer, an international law
yer practising in Yokohama, mott.
fed members of his family here to-
day of his safety. He escaped to
Kobe after the disaster.
ALL AMERICANS AT TOXIC
SAFE, AMBASSADOR SAYS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-AIl !
Americans in Toxic are believed to
be safe, Ambassador Woods reported
today to the state department. rs
Inmates of the dead in Toxic weFs
placed by the Ambassador at 10000.
He said some Americans in Yokohas
ma had been killed. Communications
with Yokohama, he said, had been
opened
Ambassador Woods message was
sent by wireless from IWaki yester-
day. 1t follows:
Communication has just been
opened with Yokohama. Situation
there exceedingly serious and some
Americans are reported to have lost
their lives.
"The casualties in Toxic are esti-
mated at ten thousand. ! believe all
Americans in Toxic are safe. The
food situation is acute. Send sup
plies from Philippines at once, as
already requested"
Children Orphaned
A dispatch from the American
consul at Kobe under date of Sep
TENDER q, forwarded to the depart
ment by Edward Bell, charge daft
flares in Pekin, said that refugees
from Yokohama confirmed reports
that the consulate general there
was completely destroyed and that
Kirjassoff the consult and his wife
are killed, but their two children are
safe in Kobe.
Vice Consul Sam j. Wardell, at
according to the dis
patch, is safe but other members of
he staff have not been accounted
'or.
The dispatch added that the naval
hospital at Yokohama collapsed and
Commander Webb was injured while
some Of the staff were killed.
Sending of a warship to take care
# naval patients. a step which al
'eady has been taken, was suggested
~ the consul.
a report from Consul E. r. Dick
,ver, from Kobe, said
Refugees report that the follow.
ng members of the consul generals
staff at Yokohama are safe and
veil:
miss Martin, Mason, and Vice
Ionsuls Leo d. Sturgeon and Ward
H."
Vice Consul Killed
Vice Consul Paul E. jerks was re-
'orted to have been killed, the mes
age said.
State department records show
hat Elwood G. Rabbit, assistant
ommercial tache at Toxic, was
orn in Ohio. and appointed from
Massachusetts, last June
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