JAPAN ERUPTION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 15, 19 January 1914, Page 7

JAPAN ERUPTION

EXAGGERATED REPORTS OF DAMAGE DEATH ROLL DOES NOT EXCEED TWO HUNDRED WOMAN'S DISTRESS DRIVES HER INSANE. (By Telegraph.— Press Association,— Copyright.) (Times-^Sydney Sun Special Cables.) LONDON, 17th January. The Times correspondent says that the exaggerated reports of the damage caused by the Japanese earthquake are causing great comment. It is officially announced that only ten persons were killed and seventeen injured at Kagoshima. Volcanic ashes lia three feet oVei* the' whole town, whilst Sakura-jima has been devastated. AH animals were burnt where they stood. The death-roll of the inhabitants does not exceed two hundred, the villagers having time to escape before their houses were overwhelmed by the lava streams. One woman returned to rescue her baby, snatching it up and carrying it to the train. On boarding the train after ft fierce struggle and arriving at Vumamato, she found that the baby was not hers, her distress driving her insane. • Bye-witnesses describe the panic* stricken refugees 1 struggles at the railway station as like those of wolves fighting for food. (Received January 19, 9 a.m.) LOJft)ON, 18th January. The Japanese Embassy states that half the houses round Sakuva-jitna were destroyed, It is believed that all the inhabitants except two hundred escaped. Twenty-four were killed or injured at Kagoshima.