Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1923, Page 3

Quake Refugees Bring Tales Of Frightful Scenes in Japan Women Tell of Escape From Wrecked and Burning Buildings and Terrify- ing Carnage in By the Associated Prese. VICTORIA, B. C., September 17.— Marvelous stories of narrow escapes were related by many of the woman survivors of the Japanese disaster ~who arrived here aboard the liner I'resident Jefferson. They told, often with trembling lips, of death from fire, sea or exposure; of rescues of vien whose limbs were amputated that they might be freed from debris, and ©f courage on the part of rescuers, while all the time their trembling fin- gers picked nervously at their make- shift garments, depicting the awful horror they had seen. Mrs. Junius D, Wood w. a1 a Kamakura hotel when the first hock of the guake tore down half 1he hostelr. So far as I know, only cook was killed in the 'hotel " 'he sald, “but many were lost . T saw a Japanese prince ta! from Kamakura on a destroyer ame there for that purpose.” . ¥. C, Middleton of Madison : was Jiving in a throee- apurtment_house in Yokohama the quake broke out. I tried to run to the door, but the gquakes came o rapidly and’ so forcefully that I could ot even fove across the small yoom. Suddenly the whole building Vegan to fall, dropping to the ground likke @ house &f card Bscapes Through Roof. When J realized at last that T had pped falling 1 was in the midst dehris; the roof had split. I awled through a small opening up the roef and.climbed down to the ound. Somehow, after all this the und did not seem as Secure as sual. Some of the houses had not =piit the fall and people werc juried underneath. I only skinned amy_elbow. “The nolse was deafening, terrify- The only building I saw stand- was the new telephone building, ch also escaped the fire, ran to the Yokohama park, which safc from fire, although the ames raged on either side. I had 1o wait to get into the park and dur- that time I was up to my hips mud. No one can realize what it was Hke except those who were there. T sat in the park until 4 o'clock the next morhing and all that time T never had anything to eat or drink. Finally T was rescued by an officer ©of the Empress of Australi R. McCleary, jr., who is accompa- nied by his mother and sister, rushed 10 & third-story doorway of his apart- Jnent when the tremor came and he 7011 to the ground in & pile of plaster under the timber that completely Turied him, although was only siightly injured. P. D Starr of the Standard Of1 Company, New York, was one of the three guests at the Grand Hotel, Yokohama, to be saved. He was huried under a pile of wreckage for &n hour before struggling out of it Jle finally reached the water front #nd swam out to a pier. After being rescued by a liftboat from the Em- yress of Australia he became blind Jor twelve hours as a result of the emoke fumes. Panic and Disorder. According to Starr and other refugees, Japanese ships in Yokohama hiarbor made little effort rescue people from th nd SPECTAL NOTICES. WANTED TO BRING A VANLOAD 0} &iture from Richmond and Fredericksbu New York city and Philadelphia. . Yauhington. SMITH'S TRANSFER' & STOR- 8 guest in he CALL, HIDTON FOR HOUSE RBPAIRING. soofing, screens. Columbia 5296-J. Estimat Turnished Ingraham st. o.w. > WANTED—A VANLOAD OF FURNITURE 1'ROM_HARRISBURG. 7'ROM PHILADELPH] YROM CLEVELAND. FROM 1125 14th BT. N.W. MAIN 2130, AFTER OOTOBER THE FIRRT, 1023, AN . clock, fewelery repairing, or article left in our place fm or more will ‘HARRON, Jeweler % 4% s 30! JOIN be sold to meet any reason what- | Stricken Cities. panic and disorder reigned _until foreigners assisted in the work of rolief. he most impressive sight of the whole experience was furnished by a British cruiser, which came racing in from God knows whero and went stralght where she was most needed,” declared Arthur Jackson of Yoko- hama, who is accompanied by his wife. “Wo passed her while on the rescue ship bound for Kobe. She flew past us at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour. She missed being the first warship at the scene of the disaster by a few minutes, a Japanese ship jbeating her. The co-operation among the British, American and other foreigners at Yokohama and Toklo in_ organizing land directing the work of relief was marvelous, in the opinion of those Who henefited from its effects. No buildings other than those built of stecl and reinforced concrete are standing toda; ' few of these, according to C. H. Flimper of New York. The strongest buildings were sent clattering to the ground and the steel frames were bent and twisted beyond all repair. Grand Hotel Disaster. The whole of the dining room staff of the Grand Hotel met instant death. They wi preparing tiffin when the building caved in and immedlately ught fire, making the kitchen and dining room section -of the hotel & (rx'n‘ atorfum. Guests and employ of the had the best chance of escape, only one room boy three guests were saved. | 1 yet Bank w buricd under a mass of debris when the bank building col- lapsed. A pillar fell across his leg and some one in an effort to extricate him cut his leg off with an ax. He scued, but bled to death shortly McGowan was com- buried by plaster and other age and had to be dug out by members of her family. She said she was Iittle the worse for her exp ence. A providential hand held the lig on an even keel when it was caught in the earth- quake and tidal wave, according to ¥ neis G. Gilbert, Boston, mis- 5 who was aboard the. vessel in Yokohama harbor when the dis- turbance came. Recounting his experience, he said: “It threw the great vessel twenty. ¢ feet out from th arf, and in & so the wirc E do | serk {ind piles of the whart set in cement Then barges, some of them ofl barges which had been torn loose, thirteen or fiftten of them altogether, jammed around the Empress and took fire, all burning at the same time. At one time the bow of the ship was plunged right through a burning building. Before the el could work her way out of this, some of the oll barges were burned down to the water's level. There, with burning oil xteen to eighteen inches deep, the flames shot fully 300 feet up in the air. That ofl on the water burned for ¢ix or seven houts.” The Rev. Gllbert confirmed the news of the complete destruction of the naval base of the Japanese mation at Yokousa, about cighteen miles from Yokohama 2 Thousands Die in Fire. Rev. Gilbert said that thousands of 'sons were_roasted to death in kohama. Persons were caught under their falling houses and could not get free before the flames de- voured them. The quake broke the water mainy so that there was no means of fighting the fire. Great fis- sures were opened in the earth as big as the liner President Jefferson. “The Japanese government has been doing ‘everything possible to keep back the news from the rest of the world of the real extent of the dam- I:IK " Mr. Gllbert said. R. P. Dally of New York and Yoko- hama, chief oriental buyer for twenty ars for A. A. Vantyne & Co., New York, arrived on the President Jef- ferson with his wife, young son and three little daughters. He showed the burns on the backs of e chlldren's necks where they had been scorched while the family stood for five hours iin a canal and doused water over > hotel quartered in the annex ! two clerks and | The manager of the Russo-Asiatic | mooring ropes | ed out the heavy mooring pins | The Records Exchange Club. ichange your phonograph records members. YBODY. themselves while the flames consumed | everything around them. T was busy in_our offices at 268 Yamashita Cho, Yokohama, rushing | our payments before the bank closed | at noon when the quake came,” Mr. | ot i J:VBR pho . 530 Bond Bidg. THE EVENING: ST SKIMS HEADLINES ANNOUNCING NEW MOVE BY PREMIERS POR. FRANCO - BRITISH ACCORD READS ONE PARAGRADH OF RE: TURNING SENATOR'S PREDICT- 10NS OF COMPLETE EUROPEAN COLLAPSE { i iq GLANCES BRIEFLY AT HEAD - LINE REPORTING THAT HOUSING SITUATION THREATENS NATION WITH CALAMITY T of ®acific ocean. Messages that ar- | rive, even press dispatches, are three, four, five days—In some cdses a week | —old. Radio communication. which | for five days furnished the only known facts about the disaster, has been shut down by operation of a censorship, Fears All But Truth. Japan, less than a hundred years | removed from savagery and perhaps | the most progressive nation in the | world, fears that anything but the truth ‘will work irreparable harm to | | | the ‘great co she has bullt up. When fac: ch censor- ship undoubted fted. It will be weeks, however, before anything resembling un accurate esti- mate of the tremendous losa of life can be made. Reliable estimates of property loss cannot be forthcoming for many months. Relayed and delayed information from Toklo “states that 60,000 dead bodles already have been burled or burned that the total dead will run over 100,000. Other dispatches, ‘their facts gleaned | from persons who saw Toklo after lits holocaust had been spent, state | that only parts of the downtown business district were burned; that its outlaying sections, in so far as fire was_concerned, came through un scathed. Yet if 60,000 dead already have| been buried in Tokio and total life loss there will exceed 100,000 what must_have been the terrible toll of | Yokohama? i All dispatches to date have been | strangely silent about the tragedy of | Yokohama. A great commercial port of more than 600,000 people, it wa literally obliterated from the face of the ecarth. Not a. building stands| but that was charred in the configra. tion that raged within a few moments after the first savage temblors. Fire Spread Slowly. Tokio's fire did not céme for some | hours after the first earthquakes.| Eyewitnesses say that it spread slowly. Not so with Yokohamu. The raging inferno that swept everything | Dbefore it followed fast on the heels of shattering quakes. People had little or no chance to escape. Re- treat was cut off. Those who man- aged to flee from falllng buildings and awellings were cut down in the! i middle of the streets as they fled. Thousands = managed to reach the water front. R yewitnesses, upon whose memory the dreadful spectacle is indelibly printed for life, paint a horrible word picture of the bund, the thorough- i { ! | | (C) The McCiare Newspayer Ibassy "at Toklo, fi J.UOIA ENRIOA, HAVIN tlore of Cherrydale Shank, hereby “gives notice that cebts ‘outstanding against this company shall presented to P. F. fore September «halr caneing at your home. place any time. Drop po: #1-E, Star office. f7iie PARTNERSHIP i . _George E. Address Box ONDUOTED BY AT- Howard, Charles & and 'Joseph O. 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Loan & Grafton&Son,Inc., bldg. 3. 760, Hesting anil Keofing Experts $5 Tears. prompt. | the books aw. i Will go any | Dally said. “We had no time to get r. A heavy steel safe in the office was tossed around like a toy by the vibration. Mr. Dally Is going to Los Angeles nd Beverly Hills and then on to New York. He said that the prison at Yokohama was wrecked and that the prisoners had escaped. Among them were a number of Koreans who were chiefly political offenders. These men turned out to be marauders and seemed to be anxious to take ven- geance on the stricken Japanese. 1Some of them, he said, were caught | poisoning wells. He saw a number of them strapped to poles and shot | for their deeds. MONTHS REQUIRED FOR QUAKE RECORD ‘iHistoric Pompeii Slaughter Dwarfed by Tokio Loss as Already Known. Special Dispatch to The Star, SAN FRA! Although over two weeks have elapsed since carthquake and fires razed the two greatest cities of Ja- pan and reduced to ruin almost a score of nearby towns and villages, the outside world as yet is only part- ly informed regarding the true mag- nitude of the terrible cataclysm. That it {s appalling, almost beyond comprehension—far eclipsing the most dreadful catastrophies of world history, is realized In a general way, but when the final facts are known the world may again have to gasp in new horror. As yet there has not come direct from “Tokio and Yokohama definite authorized information coverin; cither loss of life or property. Bo places are still cut off from the out- side world. All information, as yet, has come from Kobe and Osaka, hun- dreds of miles away—all of it bits of information picked up here and there | from the thousands of refugees who are pouring into those cities, and in a few instances the individual, but nec- essarily limited, observations of news- paper correspondents, who themselves ent through the awful ordeal, New Horrors Dafly, Hundreds of messages, many of them press dispatches, are coming out of Japan each day. Most of them tell of some new and almost unbelievable horror, some hitherto unknown but shocking’ phase of the tremendous alamity. As an instance there has .come withia the last day or so a dis- patch relating that 32,000 dead were found in the compeund of the army ciothing warehouse in the Monjo ward of Tokio. Seeking safety they met death. ideie Such reports will continue to come for weeks and even months. A sin line of ‘cable is 1aid across 4,700 miles ISCO, September 17.—{reported number of dead already ifare that leads along Yokohama's {water front. Block after block for & distance of more than two miles, they {say, bodies lay interwined with each other so thickly that it was difficult |25 fove through them without step- | ping upon the dead. This great horde, to all appearances, collapsed from suffocation when they were less than fifty feet—in some cases less than {ten feet—from possible safety in the water, Countless others, who plunged into the ba: were drowned. It is safe to conjecture that most of Yokohama's dead will be found in the wrecked and charred ruins of collapsing structures. In many cases no evidence whatever will be found because the flames will have left none, and it- will take months and even years to delve into the miles upon ‘miles of ruins that lie where okohama once stood. Y fateria additions to the ‘lsts of both Tokio and Yokohama's dead will ibe forthcoming thonths from now. Considering the quick and complete destruction of Yokohama, it is not unreasonable to believe that the greater part of her congested popula- tion may have perished with her. 1t is a world-wide belief that the greatest catastrophe of all time was the destruction of Pompeii. You can meet people on almost any street corner today who will tell you that not even the-tragedies of Yokohama and Tokio will transcend Pompeii's debacle. Its-tragic fame has been carried down through twenty cen- turies and immortalized by .such famous writers as Bulwer. The slaughter of Pompeii is dwarf- od into insignificance even by the buried in Tokio. The population of the ancient town -at -the - foot of Vesuvius was not more than twelve thousand—and history records that most of them escaped. The same applies to such terrible disasters as those of Galveston and of San Fran- cisco.. Five thousand lost their lives | at Galveston and 500 perished in this city seventeen vears ago in its dual castigation of earthquake and fire. Because they, too, have faced the scourge of death and destruction, San Franciseans, probably better than people th any other part of America, have a clearer conception of what ‘has_befallen the two premier cities of Japan. -They know how deep the scars will go and how great the courage demanded to rebuild upon the ruins of the old. At such times, top, they know that sublime: courage supplants the more ordisary kind and that Tokio at least, a quarter cen-| tury from now, will have arisen fto even greater glories And unlike Pompell, having™ arisen again, what an-indelible chapter will be inseribed in the history of time twenty cen- {turles hence! —for entire Libraries or Single Volumes, Prints, En- gravings and Autograph Let- | ters. Representative will call. CASH PAID and purchases SEES TMAT ASTOUNDING WORLD RECORD. HAS BEEN MADE FOR (CORST TO' COAST RUGHT. AND PASSES ) QUICKLY oM T ‘GLA DEMPSEY GATE RECEIPTS . AND SKIPS REST OF, SPORT PAGE TURNS HURRIEDLY OVER. TINANCIAL PAGE AND MUR- MURS THERE CERTAINLY ISN'T ANY NEWS ANY SEATTLE TAKES IN QUAKE SURVIVORS Six of Miserable Lot Rushed to Hospitals in Bad Shape. Tell of Horror. By thie Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash., Scptember Six survivors of the Yokohama earth- quake, suffering severe injuries and shock as the re of their experi- were rushed to hospitals here vesterday upon the ar of the steamer President Jefferson. Ap- proximately twenty-five others, less serfously hurt, are recovering in thelr rooms at Seattle or at the homes of friends here. list of "seriously injured inel Mre. G. W. Glendon, 1706 4th ave- nue, Richmond ; crushed leg, am- putation probably ne ry; condi- tion serious. Mrs. M. treet, Brooklyn, N. Y. H. M. Starr, 26 York, crushed foot. Gaston de Bearn, son of Prince de Bearn, counselor of the French em- stured vertebrae; ences, al Dreher, 132 Dykeman lung bruises. sadway, condition seriou: America opened her doors in quiet pity to the first of the the Japanese carthquake when 132 pinel £: survivors, carrving all their worldly possessions in little bundles donc up in handkerchiefs. and bits of paper, disembarke he President Jefferson. First Ship From Scenes. Jefterson, ten days out from and the first vessel with earthquake victims to reach an Amer- fcan $hore, arrived at 4 o'clock yes- i terday morning, but it was four hours {later before the tir engers be- | gan to disembark. nces hur- ! ried the six seriously injured to hos- pitals and taxicabs and private cars carried others to hotels or home in Seattle. There was no formal reception, but hundreds of onlookers, friends and relatives, customs and immigration officlals, ‘'wharf employes and steam- ship officlals, with Red Cross physi- clans and nurses and a few of the idly curfous greeted the passangers as they left the ship. Of those who landed, six were ously injurtd or sufféring from posure and shock, twenty-five others were caring for min urts and bruis and at Jeast twenty-five were destitute. These latter were taken in charge by the Seattle chapter of the Red Cross " until such time when they could get in _touch with realtives or friends or find work and begin life over. Thirty-three sur- vivors left the vessel at Victoria, B. C. Few had been able to save any of their personal belongings as they hurried from the stricken Japanese cities, and many wore borrowed gar- ments when they left the Jefferson. Members of the vessel's crew loaned clothing to those who had escaped in only scanty attire, and in addition gave up their berths. Some of the passengers who went to sleep last night with scarcely enough money to purchase clgarettes, awakened this morning to find_that they had been well provided for. Within a few hours after the Jefferson's arrival telegraph companies had delivered money trans- fers aggregating in the neighborhood of_$60,000. Fifteen days after the greatest dis- aster in recent history the men and women who lived it and suffered it and watched the great cities of Japan razed by earthquake, typhoon and fire, were unable to give any comprehensive ple- ture of the destruction. It was too sudden, too violent, too terrible. Their pictures were the personal ones—a hus- band dying in the wreckage of a home, a child lost somewhere in the blazing mass of Yokohama, the crumpling of great buildings into heaps of twisted material. It was havoc, but the sur- erl- } vivors of it had no cross ections. They Iy U Stone Ty "Pay As You Ride A_SMALL_ PAYMENT DOWN BALANCE ONE, TWO AND THREE MONTHS Guaranteed 8,000 Miles T. 0. PROBEY €0 Phone West 133 victims of | AR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, —By Gluyas Willizms| ON SCANDAL OF DNORCE. BUT FINDS IT'S MOSTLY STADSTICS ! i 17.—| five pupils | | | | | |ana {One of our teachers was crushed to | empl Ol' LAST PACE TINDS LONG ACCOl OF BRIDE, 73, GROOM, 69, CHILD| HOOD SWEETHEARTS, WED AT PEORIA'- SETTLES HAPPILY TO | READ EVERY WORD OF (T knew that thousands had died, but not how many thousands, that there was lLierolsm and self eacrifice and murder and robbery, but they knew nothifg of the whole, only the part. The first tremor came an_ instant be- fore the booming of the cannon that marked noon.- It was a perpendicular shock, violent and destructive. Then came 'a horizontal quake and the land- scape was changed in an instant to one of_desolation. Miss Ann Jeffrey, principal of the foreign school at Tokio, described the destruction of her school. “It was quiet except for a truck that rumbled over the pavement past our door. Thep came two shocks in quiek succession, just as the noon gun sounded. Houses tumbled down like cards. Our school was destroyed I barely escaped with my life. death. Luckily, none of our seventy- was'there, Fires Start Quickly. Almost instantly the fires started. Men and women rushed about aim- essly. 1 saw many Kkilled by falling walls. Others were burnkd to death. It was ghastly. Miss Jeffrey escaped to a park and wag later rescued by the crew of a sh_vessel in the harbor. Bertha Vest of New York city, urrying to safety, saw one of the s of the C. A. at Yoko- hama imprisoned tightly in the wreck age of the ruined building. His leg had been crushed. she sald, and blood polsoning had set in. He begged piteously for release, and finally his friends, frantically trying to afd him, attempted to amputate his leg with a pocket knife. He died a few mo. New [ ments later from loss of blood. AMrs. Shoji Osato,. formerly - Miss Fitzpatrick of Chicago- and Omaha Neb., was in Yokohama on a holiday th one of her two children, whil husband and the other baby r ained at their home In Toklo. She escaped the carthquake and later at tempted to reach Tokio in an effort to find her husband and child. was unsuccessful _and reached British freighter Dongola in an ex hausted condition with her baby son. They were taken to Kobe, where they boarded the Jefferson. BANK FINANCES POLICIES. By the Associated Pre, TOKIO, via Osaka, September 1 | The Bank of Japan has agreed to lend | 50,000,000 yen ~($25,000,000). to the Japanese ‘insurance companies for payments on policles for thousands killed during the recent earthquakes and fires in Japan, according to an announcement after a meeting of Tsunita Yano, president of the First Life Insurance Company, represent- ing forty-seven companies, and Mr. Inouye, finance minister, and Mr. Ichiki, president of the Bank of Japan. ;. President Yano offered as security properties worth 630,000,000 ven, he | stated. A total of 30,000,000 ven is ary to meet insurance pay- President Yano said, and the additional 20,000,000 yen will be used to_assist the living policyholders. The white collar workers of Japan are virtually destitute today, but from 70,000 to 200,000 laborers will be provided with work immediately to build houses and bridges, it was an- nounced. About 50,000 carpenters and plasterers from all parts of Japan are being sent to Tokio to help in the reconstruction. Sole Agents. for Men & Women Raleigh Haberdasher Thirteen-ten F St. Inc. SEPTEMBER I She | the | il FLAT TIRE? Service Charge mever Over §1.00 17, 1923. BUSIESS PANE - FEARED N JAPAN ‘Uncertainty, Unemployment, Drop in Prices Add to . <Ttoubles of Merchants. BY E. R. EGGER, By, Cable ta"Il St Chitago Daily News. 'y, Cable uhn as xa‘ KOBE, Japan, September ~17.— Drastlo government. measures' to curb profiteering and prevént a findncial and commercial panic- is seemingly having thé opposite effect to that de- sired, forelgn commercial representa- tives reporting jinability to place orders ‘despite failure 'to increase prices. According “to reliable ' American sources Kobe ‘and, Osaka firms are afrald to place orders, fearing that the Japanese government plans to glve several large concerns, such as the Mitsul; “Mitsubishi- and Okura compantes,. .monopolistic , rights in, foreign purchases of supplies and ma- terials for rebuflding the devastated areas, thereby “squéezing out” smaller dealers and leaving them with ac- cumulated stocks unsold. The result has been &4 slump in market prices which is just as serious 2s soaring pri forelgn interescs which are ready to supply materials oeing un- able to carry on their business even up to former capacities. Urge Calling Diet. Japanese newspapers and influe: tial persons are urging a special session of the diet, the Osaka Maini- chi leading the way by declaring that such a speclal session is urgent, chiefly to demonstrate that there must be a national spirit of unity among the whole people in carrying out the tasks confronting them. Agitation favoring removal of the capital to Kyoto is gaining impetus, many members of the diet urging such action on the grounds of future safety for the government, Unemployment also has become one of the leading problems of the hour, thousands of laborers swarming to western Japan presenting grave diffi- culties. Increased commercial and in- dustrial activities during the coming months, however, are expected to aid in finding a solution. organize a “reconstruction ministry’ is expected to facilitate already or- zanized efforts toward rebuilding the icvastated areas, Viscount Goto, min- ister of home affalrs, heartily ap- proves of the proposal as a means of pushing the “greater Tokio™ plan of practically _rebullding the capital which was conceived during the time he was mayor. 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