THOUSANDS HOMELESS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 23 April 1935, Page 5

THOUSANDS HOMELESS

Few Escape Uninjured in Town of Toyahara MANY DIE ON ROADSIDE TRAGIC SCENES WITNESSED (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). Received 12-15 p.m. to-day. TOKIO, April 23. Naiho Teports that 600 residents are dead and in Kamoika 450 are dead while the town is burning. All British missionaries have been located, and are safe. At Toyahara, where 1300 are dead, 90 per cent of the houses are "razed and very few people escaped uninjured. Scores of thousands have not had any food since the first shock and hundreds of children are orphaned, 100 of these being found in one place wailing beside their dead parents.

Numerous women and children, exhausted through tramping over broken country, were left to die on the roadside. Oil gushers are blazing fiercely, belching black smoke over miles of the countryside to add to. the horror. The fires are spreading.

A correspondent on the scene of the Formosa earthquake disaster graphic-