MANY HUNDRED VICTIMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 230, 29 September 1888, Page 3 (Supplement)

MANY HUNDRED VICTIMS.

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A telegram received at theHpine Department from tfye Fukushima' Kepchq on July 26fch sayp : The number =• Qf persons wounded, who are now uder medioal attendance,is 18, "pf whom 6.are seriously and 12 slightly wounded ; the to.tal*'i)upa^^r of the pqpulatioii damaged >by the late oatastrpphe, e?th,"er directly pv \ indit*6ctlyj ia 2,447, of \yhom 763 ar§ direct sufferers;.and over 1,98Q are indirectly injured and unable to; provide for themselves; of-760 direct sufferers \2 arej no\V si}pp,9^e4 by'the Kencho and over 700. ar§ a^opij tp, be provided fori The larger pbrtioii of land damaged vw.aij in thS uncultivated region aqd the land where the ■ population is moßt numerous: %pd which was >yell cultiYa^ed; receiVed bPt;slig|iii.iija^xage..!; Toe raaliiers connected with the aid of the sufferers ara being satisfactorily attended to. The inundation of the riveiOffiga^ ia noi so, .serious in character as was fumouredi but numerous cornp'ain^ts are n^ade by the, inhabitarits in h\\&' 'liilla'ges /ajbngi tjxe^^ lower stream of this river, owing to the want of water for irrigation purposes.' According to a telegram" "Mount Bandai again slightly grptmea and trembled on Thursday ,las,t,at §.!?0 p.m., and froßtt a few holes a ■fresh-: aruptioc stopped without causing much 3. amEfge,;' A later telegcan\ was to tho effect that a survey on the inundations caused by the overflowing-of the N'agase river had been made, and the | surveyors found tha£ fchore was no fear of the villages along fthe beinf Washed a\^ay noir'do they anticipate much damage ,irj any other way. ! Major-GenerallPalmer left for Bandai-zan on §a.turd^yla^|^9 make an. Inspection of tfig recent eruption. ' The following account is gfvgnj bj< a YigitQt who had^ b^en; fop- gprae.;! days staying at, the Hot Springs resort, t neiar I the fop.^ of Bandai-za,n, but: who-escaped the' catastrophe by having left a day or two' before the eruption took place. HisaOcpjirit^ j as published in the Fukushima ' Shimbun'is as follows;—•Soineipu.r or five days priori to the recent eruption loud cries and grievous i clamours of apes and monkeys were in- j cessantly heard, which caused" vafious rumours to arise among the visitors in the hot sprirjgs resqrts. , He became alarmed at the rumours and immediately left the place, and a fey dayi latter the eruption took place.' I According jfeo, an official investig^Hopj the number of those who lost their lives by the eruption of Bandai-zan was 477,0f whom tjie visitors to the hot spririg? re,s.Q?|s \|eife thirty-three.