Evening star., 1923-09-05
COMMANDER HURT
.WHENU. s. HOSPITAL
FALLS IN YOKOHAMA
Two D. c. Families Reported
Safe-Fate of Mission
aries in Doubt.

The suspense which for days has
beset Washingtonians having friends
and relatives in Japan today was
broken by news of the injury of
Commander L. r. Webb, 1882 Kenyon
street and the safety of Mr. and
Mrs. William Boyd Spencer of 1343
Park road and w. Lowry Farnham.
brother Of Arthur B. Farnham Of
3l40 nth street. No deaths of
Washingtonians have been reported.
These messages were the first to
come to relatives or friends in this
city concerning local persons in the
stricken area
Commander Webb was in charge Of
the United States Naval Hospital at
Yokohama. in the collapse of which
he was injured. He has made his home
mere from time to time at the Kenyon
street premises.
Miss Anne Pegram of that address,
sister of Mrs. Webb. today was noti-
fled by the State Department of the
hospital had collapsed, and that the
commander was injured. There were
no further details.
During the war Commander Webb
was in Washington at various times
during changes of assignment to duty
ing the war was the command of the
hospital ships Mercy" and Comfort"
Word concerning Mr.. and Mrs
Spencer was received this morning by
Mrs. Edward +. Moores. an intimate e
friend of the family, in a cablegram
that both were safe and well. Mr..
Spencer is representative of the in
ternational law firm of J. II. De Beker,
at Yokohama.
Farnham Family Snfe.
Arthur b. Farnham was notified to-
day by the National City Company
that a message had been received
earlier today saying that his brother,
w. Lowry t'arnham, and family were
safe. The family had been at Kobe.
and had just left, according to the
message, when the disaster befell.
There was nothing to indicate whether
their home, on a bluff in Yokohama,
was destroyed.
MI. Farnham is a brother of Miss
Emma J. Farnham Of 3138 18th street.
He was born in Washington, and re-
ceived his early education here. but
had been in japan about fifteen years.
The last visit to Washington was in
the fall of 1921. Mr. Farnham's offices
were in Toxic.
Sisters Still Hope.
Two sisters here of the American
consul general :. Max D. Kirjassoff, at
Yokohama, who has been reported
killed, are still hoping against hope
that their brother may somehow have
escaped. They are the Misses Rose
and Lillian Kirjassoff of 1400 Girard
street northwest.
Although no definite word has been
heard from Capt. w. B. Sullivan of
The Marine Corps, attached to the en-
bassy at Toxic, officials here were in
clined to the hope that the report
ha zoe OF cof %
also included Capt. Sullivan. He has
a brother in-law, Ernest E. Eiler, at
Quantico. Capt. Sullivan was in
Washington for time, assigned to
the naval intelligence.
Friends of the Rev. Norman C. Bin
stead, who is in Japan for the Epis-
copal Church. today entertained hope
that perhaps he had gone to the
mountains for part of the summer
and may have escaped the quake. He
ish, at ST. David's Chapel, Conduit
and Canal roads.
No News OF Buchanan.
Two brothers of Dr. ]. c. Buchanan
of col M street northwest, are in
Japan, 1t was learned last night They
are the Rev. william Buchanan. a
missionary there for the last thirty
four years, thought to be at Gifu, and
the Rev. Walter Buchanan: president
of the Presbyterian Seminary at Kobe.
The latter was in Washington last
summer. The Rev. William Buchanan
has two children, Miss Elizabeth and
Daniel Buchanan.
Miss Myrtle King of the Farragut
Apartments, who with Miss Emma
Curtiss Tucker of Baltimore is on her
way around the world, was said by
her mother. Mrs. Will r. King. to
be in Japan.
The two girls started on their
world wide tour some time ago. 1t was
said, teaching one season in Oregon
! another in Honolulu. and expecting to
teach this coming season in the Phil
ippines. No word has been received
from them since the disaster.
Mrs. Clare o. Dubose. we'll known in
Washington. wife Of Clarence M. Du-
bose, Toxic correspondent of the
United News Service, obtained pass
ports yesterday to sail for japan. Mr.
Dubose was registered at the Imperial
Hotel In Toxic. August Is.