DYING CONVULSION OF VOLCANO

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 10 September 1923, Page 5

DYING CONVULSION OF VOLCANO

CAUSE OF EARTHQUAKES TIDAL WAVE CAUSED BY ISLAND SINKING (Sun Cables.) W. OSAKA, Sept. 8. Yokosuka reports state that the warship Amagi which was sunk lit Haruna, has been towed out damaged. The general army aviation headquarters are being moved to Osaka. It is officially reported that Admiral Nomagucpi arid 1000 Yokohama police--mcn are missing. NEW 'YORK, Sept. 8. There "is j general agreement anions Japanese scientists that the earthquake "<*as the dying convulsion of the volcano Oshima. Simultaneously with the quake, it burst into terrific eruption, spreading destruction everywhere. Then, as if its

fury was spent in one great effort, it collapsed and sank into the sea. To its sinking is attributed the tidal wave, which swept the coastline. The Chicago Tribune's correspondent thinks that 500 foreigners were killed in Yokohama alone. Of 200 guests at the Oriental Palace Hotel, only a few escaped. The United. Club, Court and Cherrymount Hotels were obliterated.

Wishing to avoid epidemics, the medical authorities are making every effort to break the hordes of refugees clustered in the public parks of the capital. Terrible squalor prevails. "Every rule of sanitation is broken by the throngs who have been forced to live in huddled confusion, unable to wash, and wearing clothing taken from corpses and drinking contaminated ditch water.

Refugees are being inoculated against cholera and typhoid when they arrive at Osaka and Kobe