100,000 Homeless.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 15, 17 January 1914, Page 5

100,000 Homeless.

SAKURASH IMA ERUPTION.

FATE OF THE POPULATION. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright: [United Press Association.] Tokio, January 16. Of Sakurashima’s population 12,500 have been accounted for. The fate of the rest is Unknown. A hundred thousand are homeless on the .mainland. Lava, stones blocked the railway 230 miles away.. Blocks "of lava the size of houses, wore thrown in the air. Although tire principal volcanoes of Japan are active, no further disaster is feared, as Sakurashima is regarded as a. safety valve. Foreign missionaries are safe.

BOILING TIDAL WAVES.

FURTHER ERUPTIONS PREDICTED. Tokio, January 15. A boiling tidal wave again swept Kagoshima. The fall of ashes was so heavy that it was impossible for people to open th«rir eyes. The observatory predicts further and worse eruptions.

SEISMOLOCSCAL BELIEF.

DEATH ROLL EXAGGERATED.

ISLAND ENTIRELY CHANCED.

(Received 9.30 a.m.) Tokio, January 10

The chief of the Seismologioal Department lias arrived at Kagoshima, rle believes , the eruption ot Sakurashnna was due to the activities of the volcano Higashia, Kirishima, on which the legend says, the Emperor’s divine ancestors descended from Heaven.

In vestigation proves that the death roll was exaggerated. The majority of the islanders were rescued. Not one of- the thirty thousand houses round Kagoshima Bay' retains its shape. There is great scarcity of food. Many women have become insane through being separated from or by the Joss, of their families. Thirty-three persons were found alive huddled in a cave at Sakurashima, and were rescued. The eruption changed the entire shape of the island.