VOL. III. NO. 48
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1923.
PRICE 25 CENTS
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Japan Visited By One of Most Hor
rible Disasters in All History.
' Tokio and Yokohama V irtually Destro ed; Es
timates Place Loss o£ Life at From 3 3,000
to 500,000; Millions Are Home ess.
Shanghai, Sept. 2—One hun
dred thousand are dead as the
result of the Japanese earth-1
quake and tire horror, one of tin
greatest tragedies in history
Earthquake, tidal wave, typhc un 1
and fire combined to make the
disaster one of the most horrible
on record. Blasts of dames are
still sweeping the stricken terri
tory, leaving death and destruc
tion over what is left of the great
cities of Tokio and Yokohama.
All efforts to save the Imperial
Pa-laoe at Tokio were for naught.
Millions are homeless. The water
supply systems of both Tokio
and Yokohama are destroyed.
* Osaka> Sept. 1.—A vast area
of Japan has been devastated by
the greatest earthquake in the
history of this country. It will
be a long time before the actual
loss of life is known, but the
most reliable estimates place the
number of deaths up to the pres
ent at from 300,000 to 500,000.
According to advices received
here, 810,000 persons have lost
their lives in Tokio, Yokohama
and Yokoshiuta, with 10,000 dead
■ in the latter city, and nothing is
known of the numbers killed in
the country districts. Meanwhile
a new volcano has broken out in
the Chichu range, fifty miles
northwest of Tokio. It is esli
r mated that 1,500.000 are home
less in Tokio and suburbs.
Osaka.—Prince Yamashita and Prin
• cess Kaya, who were injured at Kama
kura, are now reported dead. Lieut.
Spada, who flew over Tokio and the
stricken districts in an airplane, has
reported to Commander Negoya that
ail concrete and brick buildings have j
collapsed.
Seattle.—The following is the first
■ dispatch direet from Tokio:
Tokio. Sept, 3.—Tokio and Yoko
hama are virtually destroyed as the
result of earth make and fire which oc
curred last Saturday. Casualties in
both cities will run into the thousands.
At present no estimate is possible. The
property damage will approximate
hundreds of millions of dollars at the 1
least. The American embassy was de
stroyed. Martial law prevails in all '
■ cities in the devastated area.
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San Francisco.—One wireless report j
this morning gives the dead in Tokio j
alone at 100,000.
Shanghai.—Nichinicbi is the only i
newspaper in Tokio to escape destruc- t
i tion.
Iwaika ( Wireless Station of
Japan), Sept. 0.—A courier who
returned this afternoon from
Tokio describes s« -nes of the
disaster there as unspeakable.
The city, be said, is three-fourths
burned. On ponds in parks he
saw charred, unidentified bodies
floating like iishes. Buildings
within a certain area ire reduced
to ashes, exc -pt the i on frames
and brick pillars, \rnong the
known dead are: Baron Matsu
oka, member of the privy coun
cil: Baron So nod a, member ol'
the imperial council Mrs. II. C.
Bunell, San Francisco Captain
Swenson, master pf the American
steamship Steel Navigator; and
Pharmacists Paul ii. Cannon and
A. Angogliu, of the United States
Navy. General Fukudahas been
appointed emergency commander
of the Tokio area.
Innumerable bodies of earth
quake victims are clogged in the
river bumida, which flows thru
Tokio. Thousands of frenzied
women were overcome with the
shocks when they occurred, and
thousands of others perished
when bridges across the Sumida
collapsed.
London.—The British consul at Yo
kohama and a hundred foreigners, resi
dent! of the city, are believed to be
dead, according to dispatches received
by the Central News Agency by way of
Shanghai. ______
Nagasaki. — The special bureau
opened for ti e aid of the earthquake
victims , , ounces the 350,000 houses
have been i stroyed i t Tokio and that
the casualties number 130.000.
Shanghai, Sept. (>. All of today’s re*
ports from . pan indi ate that first es
timates of k-.-.sof life and damages from
earthquake , tires and tidal waves were
much exaggerated. A radiogram in
tercepted here estimates the casualties
at Yokohama at 50,000, and an Eastern
telegram aid 30,000 dead had been
counted west of Tokio. A Reuter re
port says the banks ,tro reopening.
Washington, Sept. 5.—The State De
partment tonight received a radio mes
sage from Kobe saying that the naval
hospital at Yokohama had been de
stroyed, that Chief . ’uirmacist L. /.am
baoh and his wife an ! two enlisted men
had been killed, and Dr. U. 11. Webbin,
in command of the hospital, is badly
injured.
London, Sept. 5.—The Central News
reports that its Tokio correspondent
escaped front the capital somewhat in
jured, acid after many hardships ar
rived in Kob3. Me sends the follow
ing : “Marly esti : ites of loss of life
and damage to property will be found
much too low. t is known that the
deaths number t'vo hundred thousand
and that, financial losses will aggregate
two and a half billion dollars.”
London, Kept. . -A Shanghai cable
says the death toil from earthquake,
tidal wave and :i * in the city of Yoko
hama alone total , '30,000, not including
those killed in any towns and vil
lages which were ompletely destroyed.
Two hundred thousand homes were
wrecked. _
Washington, Sept. 2.—Apprehension
for the safety of \mbassador Woods
and hundreds of American residents
an 1 tourists in T.-kio and 'okohama
and other parts of Japan was expressed
today by the na > department and Jap
anese embassy when efforts to com
municate with the earthquake and fire
strieken areas fail d.
Shanghai, Sept. 1. —Fear is expressed
here for the safety of Judge Charles
Lot finger, of *! i • Jnited States court
for China, and his wife, Leonard Husar
and his wife; and United States Mar
shal Thurston Tarter and his wife, all
of whom are e h- ed to be in ’oko
hama. They left for tokohama re
cently, after the term of court at Har
bin. Porter went to Yokohama to meet
his fiancee. Mis, Louise McCoubey.
They were planning to marry iD Japan.
London.—Another great earthquake
was recorded at, t om wick Observatory
this morning.
Nagasaki.—An American military
attache and twenty-five other persons
were killed in the derailment of a train
between Hiratuslr and Oiho during the
earthquake.
Owaki. A wireless report from To
kio estimates that one hundred square
miles of that city aod 'okohama are in
ruina.
Nagasaki.—The Japanese minister of
finance will probably declare a ton-day
moratorium.
Kan Francisco.—Tit- lordova, Aaa.,
station wirelessed today that the Tai
yoma Maro has reported as1'being in
distress off the Japanese coast.
Tacoma.—A gift >; lumber worth
SI..’>00,000 for the unbuilding of devas
tated areas in Japan was voted here to
day by the Douglas Fir Compressing
x Exporting Company, representing
all !ir mills of Oregon and Washington:
Manila. The Uc:ud Staten army
quartermaster corps is loading the
transports Meiggs and Merritt with
supplies for the relief of sufferers in
Japan,
London.—“All ropeans believed
safe, both in Tokio and "okohama,”
reads a cable dispatch received by a
London firm from it. allied company in
Japan.
Tomioka, Japan. o news has been
received from Bonin. and Ospima
islands, both thickly opulated. They
are believed to have sunk into the sea.
Osaka.—Radio messages received to
ceived tonight state that the French
Italian embassy at L’n'tin is a total loss,
caused by tire.
Nagasaki.—It is feared uo-.v that the
number of deaths in Tokio will reach
1 ">0,000, and at Yokohama 100,000, with
many thousands in other cities and
tows. The city of Nageri has been
practically destroyid by earthquake.
Nagasaki.—There are no buildmgs
in sight in Yokohama. Only ruined
walls are visible. Thousands of ref
ugees gathered in a park were drowned
by Hood, caused by the bursting of the
city water pipes.
7 U. S. Naval Destroy
ers Wrecked; 25 Sail
ors Dead, 100 Missing
San Francisco, Sept. 9.—Seven
TJ. S. Naval destroyers—the
Delphy, Young, Chauncey, Fel
ler, Woodbury, Nicholas, and S.
! S’. Lee—of the Eleventh division
squadron, ^o. 19, were wrecked
Saturday night on the rocks off
TJbiwt Arguello, oh the' Santa
Barbara coast. Twenty-live are
dead, besides which over one
hundred sailors are missing. The
vessels 'were running at a .20
knot speed a> the time. Ten
bodies ha . e been recovered.
Many sensational rescues toGk
place. ,f.Uho•chief boatswain and
Mate’Peterson, of the Young,
I swam some' distance to the
j Ghauncey with a line, and over
this line the men of the Young;
were sent to safety.
He. Pacific Mail liner Cube,
wao also wrecked at the same
time off the Santa Larbara coast.
.The passengers and crew were
rescued with much difficulty and
were later taken to Los Angeles .
'.The Cuba had on board two and
one-half million dollars’ worth
iof silver._
Washington.—The theory was
expressed today by high naval
officials trat a tidal wave or
ether seismic disturbance, result
mg from the Japanece earth
quake, caused the disaster to
Destroyer Division No. 11 off the
California coast, as the vessel*,
were 12 miles off their course.
Machinery of Amer
ican Red Cross Starts
Relief Work for J apan
Washington, Sept. 3.—Machinery of
the American Lied Cross has already
begun work to relieve stricken Japan
ese citiee. An appeal eo the Americas:
I people to con""*•'’"te to the relief of the
oeople of Japan has been iesued by
President Cooluge and the American
Lied Cross designated as the organisa
tion to whie.i relief contributions
ohould be transmitted.
The American Asiatic eet- -has been
-ordered to Japan to render all .possible
assistance.
Seattle.—The mayor has issued z
proclamation calling upon the cilieens
of Seattle to contribute funds for the
relief of Japan.
Washington.—T- mis for the relief cf
the Japanese ar r o eg in updn the
A meriean Red Jroas at a rate which
insures vast oversubscription < of the
five million dollars for-which the orig
inal appeal was issued.
Osaka.—Thirty Japanese -warships
are taking on supplies at various oorte
for the stricken people o' Tokio and
Yokohama.
Seattle.—Subscriptions to J ’nese
earthquake suffers today totaled i.>,0OC
in cash and 890,000 in food supplies.
Washington.- loolidge contributed
8100 for the relief of Japan.
150 Deg. Fahr. in To
kio During Big Fire
Peking.—In Tokio, many of the vic
tims perished mainly from the stilling
heat an the atmosphere during the
great lire, which is declared to have
reached 110 degrees Fahrenheit, ac
cording to dispatches received hers,
Pekin.—Five hundred foreigners lost
their lives un Yokohama, according to
a dispatch from Osaka, quoting Robert
O. Malteson, the Tokio correspondent
of the Chicago Tribune.
Washington.—An epidemic of fever
has broken out in Tokio, Ambassador
Wood cabled this morning, urging as
sistance.
‘It’s a Rotten Job,
Being a King,’ Says
the Greek Monarch
London.- The Express today prints;
an interview with. King George of
Greece, in which that monarch cays :
“It's a rotten ;ob, being a king,
have tried it, to I know. ’
15.00(* Koreans in
Tokio Rounded Up
Honolulu — Fifteen thousand Ko
reans in Tokio havo been ronndedi u
, a,-d transferred to an internment camp
I atf lerisfai.no, fifteen-mi las from Tokic,
under an order issued by Gee. Fukudu,
emergency commander in the. earth
quake area, according to advices re
ceived here by Hawaii Shinpo, a Jap
anese language palter.
Idzu Island and 50,00(1
Population Disappears
'Manila.--A special dispatch to Lie.
| .eealo, a local newspaper, from Shang
j aai, dated Sept. says; “News, said
I to be authorised, ban been received
I
| boro ooulirming reports »of the disap
| pearano© of Idzu inland, which had c,
| population o 1 fifty ^hou8and.,,
j l-02i* Distinct Shocks
Felt Since Sept. 1st
Ceasa.--Since September i.-.t '-,02$
distinct shocks have been felt to date*
tho Central Observatory reported to
day.
The government has proclaimed c,
2C-day moratorium, dating from Sep
tember 1.
San Francisco.- -Food riot-c Lav®
broken out in " okio, according to a
radiogram received by the Radio Cor
poration from iwaki, which says gen
darmes are attacking rioters with their
Swords. __
Kobe.—E. W. Morse, of the Inter
national Banking Corporation, was
murdered in Tok:o while carrying c
large sum of money in a box from' the
Bauking Corporation s building at tbr
time oe tho earthquake.