SEAPORT CONSIDERED DOOMED
(SIDNEX SON CABLE.)
TOKIO, 23rd May. Fires followed, the earthquake at Nagoya, and confusion prevailed in the streets, as the people were afraid to re-enter buildings. The greatest damage was done at the seaport of Toyooka, where fires are raging, and the town is considered to be doomed. The population of ten thousand is fleeing into the country. The hot spring resort at Kinosaki was wiped out by fire," in which a number of residents were fatally trapped. A train due at Toyooka is missing. It is feared it was entombed in the Ashiya tunnel, which collapsed. Two other trains were, derailed. Military aeroplanes have been dispatched from Osaka to investigate.
Eighty dead are reported in the small towns of Kuniyama and Fiikuchi. Numbers of smaller earthquakes since the first shocks have increased the terror of the people.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 120, 25 May 1925, Page 5
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