DEADLY ERUPTION

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 122, 27 May 1925, Page 5

DEADLY ERUPTION

JAPANESE DISASTER

OVER FIVE HUNDRED DEATHS

BATHING SPRINGS BLOWN UP,

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(Received 27th May, 12.30 p.m.)

TOKIO, 26th May.

While 600 visitors were bathing in the springs at the Kinosaki Spa, an eruption threw up scalding black water, and many were burned to death. The survivors took refuge in the hills, where many were maimed and killed by rolling rocks.

The deaths are known to exceed five hundred. Toyooka was also affected, and 3000 houses either collapsed or were burned down. A typhomc wind carried the blaze into the surrounding forest, which burned for thirty hours. The police have recovered 246 bodies of the burned, in addition to those found by relatives;

The above message is apparently a description, based on information from the centre of the disaster, of the occurrence reported on Monday as an earthquake. The previous messages agreed in describing the Toyooka region a's the worst affected, but were exceedingly vague as to the actual extent of the disaster. This is the first news receivec since Monday.