Evening gazette, Tuesday, July 14, 1896 · page 8

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JAPIN’SjlsuuuN.

Details of theilavoc Wrought by the-

Awful Seismic Wave.

FATALITIES REACH 30,000.

The Disturbance Lasted but Five Min-
utes, hpt In That Time 12,000 Build-
ings Were Destroyed—Supposed
Cause of the Calamity.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 14. —-A Tokyo cor-
respondent, ‘writing under date of June 6,
thus graphically describes the devastation
wrought by the seismic wave which re-
cently visited the northeast coast of the
main island throughout a distance of
about 200 miles, and in which in five min-
utes 30, 000 persons were killed and 12,000
houses destroyed. That is the whole story.

Any one can identify the locality of the
disaster by a glance of the map of Japan.
From the island of Kinka-San, on the
south (N. lat. 38.15, E. long. 141.30) to
Hachinoye, on the north (N. lat. 40.30,
E. long. 141.30), the coast 'of Bikuzen
and Rikushu provinces assumes a dis-
tinctly convex shape. Throughout the
whole of this bowlike area nearly- every
town and village was visited by the wave.
Motayoshi (N. lat. 38.40, E. long. 141.28)
and Yanada (N. lat. 39.28, E. long. 142)
suffered most severely. The general di-
rection of the wave appears to.have been
north by cast, for, after carrying the devas-
tation to the shore of the main island, it
left Yozo on the west, touching that island
at Yerimo cape only.

In the crash of inundations, cyclones
or even earthquakes there is a record of
more or less continuous mischief and
more or less successful struggle against
the forces of destruction, but in the case
of aseismic wave one tremendous blow
accomplishes the whole calamity in an in-
stant.

At 8:30 the inhabitants of numerous
towns and hamlets along the coast were
celebrating "the boys’ festival on the
5th of the fifth month, according to the
old calendar; at 8:40 30,000 of them had
been swept out to sea or thrown dead upon
the shore, and 8,000 of their homes had

disappeared or lay wrecked.

There was nothing to presage the dis-
aster. From 11 in the forenoon until 4:30
in the afternoon heavy rain fell. It was
followed by a fine evening and a dark,
calm night. There is much difficulty in
obtaining perfectly accurate statements as
to the times of the phenomena that pre-
ceded the final catastrophe. They were too
insignificant to seem worth recording.

‘ Came Without lVarning.

Several accounts agree, however, that at
about 7 o’clock three or four shocks of
earthquake were felt, not violent shocks,.
though of the vertical kind that folks in
Japan have learned to dread. The barom-
eter at the time gave no indication of any-
thing unusual.

Scme 20 or 25 minutes later a booming
sound became audible from the direction
of the sea. It appears to have been vari-
ously interpreted.
the noise of a coming gale; others sup-
posed that a huge school of sardines had
reached the offing.

Only a very few suspected the real sig-
nificance of the sound and fled inland at
the top of their speed. Rapidly the noise
increased until it assumed the volume
and deafening din of a great pack of ar-
tillery, and then, in a moment, waves
from 20 to 30 feet high were thundering
against the shore. ‘

The places in which the actual totals of
deaths reached the highest figures were
nct always the ones that sufi'ered most in
proportion to their population. Of the
three prefectures visited by the wave—-
Iwate, Miyagi and Aomori—Iwate had by
far the largest aggregate of disasters; its
list of dead amounting to 25,000. Some
of the details, however, convey a more
graphic idea of the facts than any general
statement can suggest.

Kamashi is a little seaside town, situ-
ate at the head of a rocky inlet ten miles
deep and directly facing the Pacific ocean.
Behind it is a precipitous hill. The in-
habitants seem to have remained until the
last, wholly unconscious of what was
pending. A little after 8 in the evening
a mountain of sea was observed piling it-
self up at the mouth of .the inlet, and in a
moment, with a thunderous roar, waves
30 feet high swept over the town.

Three times these avalanches of water
rushed forward, the first incomparably the
most terrible, and in less than two min-
utes the town was virtually annihilated.
Out of 1,223 dwellings, only 143 remained
standing. and out ofapopulation of 6,557,
death had overtaken 4,700 and 500 lay
wounded. In completeness of destructio
this record heads the list. -

Other Places thich Suffered.

Scarcely less appalling was the work of
the waves in a bay some five miles farther
north. There, in the village of Futaishi,
only 100 persons escaped death out of a
population of 790, and only two houses
out of as many hundred remained stand~
ing.

At Yamada 700 houses out of 900 were
destroyed, and 3,000 persons were killed
out of 4,200.

. At Toni 250 houses were swept away
out of 269, and 1,103 persons were killed
and 82 wounded out of a total of 1,200.

In the Kissen district 1 town and 11
villages attacked, by the waves had 6,380,
persons killed and 1.560 houess ‘washed
away or wrecked.

At Hongo the whole hamlet of 150
houses was annihilated, and the sole sur-
vivors were a party of men that happened
to be playing “go” in a temple situated
on high ground.

Such are the tales of death and ruin that
come from place after place, the terrible
totals at this moment of writing being 29,-
073 killed, 7,737 wounded and 7,844
houses washed away or wrecked.

Nothing of an ominous nature was ob-
served by fishermen four miles from shore,
though a party-nearer the land observed
huge masses of water rise and sweep under
their boat without swamping it.

The cause is supposed to be the collapse
of the sides of a huge submarine volcano,
known as the Tuscarora deep, discovered
by Commander Belknap, U. S. N., of the
frigate Tuscarora, in a deep sea survey, 22
years ago.

The atmospheric disturbance accom-
panying the wave leveled forests to the
ground and stripped the trees of bark and
twigs.

The bodies of the dead were found shock-
ingly mutilated and even battered out of
human shape. ~~ '

The Venezuelan Dispute.
LONDON. July 14.—The Daily News re-
ports that the second blue book on Vene-
zuela, which is to be submitted to the
United States boundary " commission, is
snow complete.

Advertise in the GAZETTE. ‘

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STANBURY BEATS HARDING.

The Australian \Vins the Championship
I of the ‘IVorld. '
LONDON, July 14. —James Stan bury, the

Australian. defeated "Wag” Harding to-

day in a sculling race on the Thames for

the world’s championship. The race at-
tracted great crowds to Putney and Mort~
lake, notwithstanding the intense heat of
the day. Waterman along the Thames
were especially interested in the contest,
and with them Harding was a strong fa-
vorite. In their opinion Stanbury had
neglected to allow himself reasonable time
to prepare for the race and had not un-

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JAMES srasBunv. .
dergone a strict training at any time dur-

ing the laat three years. Thus the Aus-
tralian had a terrible task to reduce his
Weight. ,He indulged day after day in the
most violent exercise and frequently
brought on severe illness before he left his
boat. Latterly his work had been better
systematized, and when he entered his
boat today be weighed 13 stone. Harding,
on the other hand, did not need to train
as severely as his rival, but had been doing
steady work in his boat. Today be weighed
9 stone 8 pounds.

Mr. J. C. Gardner of the Thames Row-
ing club umpired the match today.

Wind and tide were favorable for a good
race. The betting was even. Harding
won the toss, and chose the Surrey side,
although there was not much in the
choice. After three false starts the men
got away at 3:30 o’clock p. m., Stanbury
pulling 36 and Harding 35 strokes to the
minute. At the twenty-second stroke
Stanbury led by a length, and 500 yards
from the start was two lengths in the
lead and took Harding’s water. The mile
was made in 4 minutes 28 seconds, Stan-
bury leading by four lengths. At Ham—
mersmith theAustralian had increased his
lead to six lengths, the time at that point
being 8 minutes 17 seconds, which is 12
seconds better than the record.

The race from this point to the finish
was a mere procession, Stanbury rowing
easily and frequently looking around to
view the course. Barnes’ bridge was
reached in 18 minutes 17 seconds, Stan-
bury being eight lengths in front of his
competitor. Stanbury won what appeared
to be a very easy victory. Time, 21 min-
utes 51 seconds.

RAILROAD MEN ARRESTED.

Fixing Responsibility For the Excursion
Train \Vreck Near Chicago.

CHICAGO, July 14.—-After an investiga-
tion of the circumstances of last evening's
wreck of a. Wisconsin Central picnic train
on the Chicago and Northern Pacific tracks
near Altenheim, causing the death of five
persons and serious injuries to a number
of others, the police arrested James Gram,
engineer of the excursion train; William
Dolan, ‘fireman, on same engine; Mike
O’Donnell, engineer of the switch engine
drawing the freight train; James Meehan,
his fireman, same engine: James Knis-
kern, the operator, charged with causing
the disaster. The chief blame for the ac-
cident is laid upon Kniskern, who, it is
charged, carelessly walked away without
throwing back the switch so that the pic-
nic train could pass on the main track.
Gram was the engineer of the passenger
engine. Dolan, his fireman, received no
injury. Michael O’Donnell, the engineer
of one of the freight engines, was in the
cab with Meehan at the time of the colli-
sion and leaped early enough to escape
serious injury.

South African Afl‘airs.

LONDON, July 14.—-The Chronicle, com-
menting upon “the tragic and unendura-
ble mess into which South African aflairs
have drifted,” demands that the govern-
ment should take over the civil and mili
tary administration of Rhodesia. A Cape
Town dispatch says the select- committee
on the Jameson raid into the Transvaal
has concluded its labor. The report will
show that Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Beit,
the directors of the South African com-
pany who were implicated in the raid,
have refunded to the company all of the
sums drawn by the Johannesburg reform-
ers.

The Italian Cabinet Trouble.

LONDON, July 14.—The Daily News has
a dispatch from Rome which says that
Lieutenant General Pelloux has accepted
the position of minister of war in the cab-
inet under the Marquis di Rudini on a
basis of an increase of 10,000,000 lire
(about $2,000, 000) in the army estimates.
“Signor Colombo, minister of the treas-
ury, ” says The Daily News correspondent,
“therefore remains in the cabinet, and the
crisis is regarded as ended.”

Kaiser Aids 3 French Steamer.
BERLIN, July 14.—While the imperial

yacht Hohenzollern, having Emperor Wil-

liam on board, and the German cruiser
Gefion were lying at anchor in the Lyster-
fiord, Norway, the French steamer General
Chenzy went aground off Floro. The'em-
peror sent the Geflon to pull off the French
vessel, which she succeeded in doing.

The Brooklyn Gas Trust.

ALBANY, July 14.—-The hearing on the
application for permission to bring action
tenths revocation of the charters of the
gas companies in Brooklyn, which are par-
ties to the Brooklyn Gas trust, was to
have been given today by the attorney
general, but he fixed Aug. 10 as the date.

Sagasta’s Little Snort.

MADRID, July 14.-—Senor Sagasta, for-
mer prime minister of Spain, in an inter-
view on the subject of suggested alliances,
declared that Europe’s energies must be
exerted to maintain its policy as against
the policy recently developed in America.

Americans to Wed Abroad.
LONDON. July' r14.—At St. George’s
church, Hanover square, tomorrow, Mrs.,,
A. S. Kip of New York will be married to
Mr. J. Baker,.also of New York. The,
United States ambassador, Mr. Thomas

F. Bayard, will give the bride away.

Advertise in the Guerra. '

 

STATE NICKNAM‘LES.

Pennsylvania is called the Keystone
State. ' -

Kentucky is known as the Corncrack-
er State, from a. game 'bird enjoying the
same name which was formerly found
in most parts of the State. 1t is also
called the Blue Grass State.

. Delaware has been called the Blue
Hen'State.

Ohio was early called the Buckeye
State. _ -

New York was long ago denominated
the Empire State.

Iowa. almost from the day of its ad-
mission has been called the .Hawkeye
State. Hawkeye was the name of a
noted Indian chief. ’

Michigan is known as the Wolverine
State. .

Tennesseeans are Butternuts. from
the color of the clothing worn by the
Tennessee volunteers during the civil
war. ' ,

Wisconsin was early dubbed the Bad-
ger State.

Texas is called the Lone Star State
from the single star in the arms of the
commonwealth.

Indiana is called the HoOSier State.

‘Maine is called the Pine Tree State.

Nevada has two nicknames—the Sil-
ver State and the Sage Brush State.- ,

Georgians are Buzzards, from a State
law protecting these birds.

North Carolinians are called Tarheels,
from a leading industry.

Marylanders are Craw-Thu'mpcrs, a
slang name for the lobster.

South Carolina isthe Palmetto State.

Delaware people are called Musk-
rats.

The people of Oregon are Webfeet.

West Virginians are Panhandleites.

New Yorkers are Knickerbockers.

Texans are Beeiheads.

N evadans are Sage Hens.

Kansans are J ayhawkers.

THE EFFECT OF GOOD PIE.
Inspired by an Appetite, a, Tramp Tells a
Thrilling Story_

“Awful experiences? Yes.” said the
tramp, as he sat at a Holland street
kitchen table on Thursday forenoon and
cut into the second piece of custard '

re.

p “I was sleeping soundly in a box car
out in Iowa one night last summer, and
the wind was blowing like thunder
across the plains! Suddenly that car
got loose—the brakes broke or suthin’—
and it began to crawl along out of the
siding and onto the main track. It was
nuts for me. I thought the wind
wouldn’t blow me far. and so I kept on.
I stood in the door and saw the houses
and fences go by faster and faster, till
all of a sudden I realized that I was go~
ing too fast to get off, and no way. of
stopping it. Half an hour after we—
the car and I—dashed through a little
station, and I had just time to see the
telegraph. bperator run out and look
after us and then run backto telegraph
down the line to clear the track. We
were go: '3 more than a mile a minute,
and my hair was standing on end.
Forty miles down the. read we went
through another station, and on a sid-
ing I caught sight of an engine with
steam up, and a man with. a rope on the
cowcatcher. That engine chased us
twenty miles down the track. The man
with the rope threw it around the brake
wheel on top of our car, and gradually
stopped it, while all the time the wind
was blowing a gale. ,

“We had just got headed back toward
the depot when an express train showed
up where we should have met it kero
chunk—that’s good pie,” and he took
another piece.——Lewist0n Journal.

BLOOERMS ARE UN POPULAR.

 

Few “’omen are Seen Now in Bifurcated
Garments.

It is rather remarkable how the
bloomer craze has affected certain
cities, and disaffected others. It was
prophesied by most of the critics last
year that when this riding season Open-
ed drop-framed wheels would be no
longer popular among the ladies, but
that all of them clad in their bloomers
would scorch astride the light-weight
diamond frame wheel, mounting and
dismounting much in the same manner
as their companions of the opposite sex.

The prediction has not become true,
and the bloomer girl is fast disappear-
ing, a fact which is proved by the in-
creased orders for the drOp-framed
wheels. A year’s experience has con-
vinced the average American girl who
rides a wheel that the so-Called rational
costume for bicycle riding is not ration-
al. but is an ill-fitting garnfent which
affords less comfort than the short skirt
for riding,

The Belgian Election.

BRUSSELS, July 14.—Complete returns
from the election for members of the
chamber of representatives show that 105
Clericals. 18 Liberals and 29 Socialists
were chosen. This gives the Clericals in
the chamber a majority of 58 votes.

Aged Woman Shot by Accident.

ROCHESTER, July i4.-—-Mrs. Nathan
Stern, 62 years of age, was shot dead while
sitting in front of a pavilion at Sea Breeze.
The bullet came from a rifle in the hands
of Joseph Caplan. The shooting was ac-
cidental. Canlan was arrested.

COVERED

WITH

HUMOR

When I was thirteen years old I began to have
sore eyes and ears, and from my ears a humor
spread. I doctored withliive different skilful
doctors, but they did me no good. My disease
was Eczema. By this time it had gone all over
my head, face, and body. Nobody thought I
would live, and would not have but for CU'rxcum
Ranznms. I used four boxes of Concern.

‘ five cakes of Currcrma SOAP. and three bottles
of Curzcuas RESOLV‘ENT. My hair all came out
at that time but now it is so thick I can hardly
comb it. am sixteen years old, weigh 130
pounds, and am perfectly well. '

Miss IREAN GRANDEL. Clayton, N. Y.

Bruin Con; Tecumseh—Warm baths with Cu-
TICUBA SOAP. gentle up iterations of Ccrrcuiu (oint-
ment). and mild doses of ‘uricuaa Resorvsnr,greatest
of humor cures. ' ,

Sold thrcuchnut the world. Price. Cancun. 60m
Son. 250.; Rnsowwr. 60c. and 81. Penn; Dsuo
um Culu..Cou m. Sole i’mpa..'anmu.

“'"Howto Cure Ever-v “do Humor."malled Ibo. ,

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FIRST-CLASS Goons. AT POPULAR PRICES. V

TWENTY-ONE CENT SALE.

It’ is I6 to I that you can purchase more for one dollar nowthan you could five years
ago for two dollars. This we are going to prove to you by a '

Zl-GREAT TWENTY-ONE CENT SALEI-ZI

In every department we shall reduce something so that you can getone, two, three
in some cases six, articles, for twenty-one cent,s which price you would pay, five years
ago, for one of the artices mentioned below ‘ ,

Read this list carefully, cut it out, bring with you, and get the articles advertised. .

Sale Commences Saturday, July 11, and Continues _ Three Dayl.

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1 49c Shirt Waist, laundered collars and 3 yards Oriental La‘ces, white and 5 yards best .kind Cambric for 2 I c
cufi's. . 2 I c ecru, 10c quality for c 2 yards best 12c Silesia for 2 I Q
1 pair Ladles’ Drawers for 2 I c 2 yards Oriental Laces, white and 4 yards 8c Rustic Cambric for 2 I c
1 Corset Cover for 2 I c ecru, 150 quality, for ' 2 | c 1% yards 17c Canvas for 2 I c
2 pair Children’s Drawers for .2 I c 1 whole piece Valenciennes, 12 3 yards 12c white Grass Cloth for 2 I c
Infants’ Bonnets for 2 I c yards, for c 4 yards 8c Glazed Cambric for 210
Children’s Lawn Caps for 2 I c 3 yards Black Valenciennes Laces
Children’s Sun Hats for 2 l c 10c quality, for 2 | c '
Children’s Slips for 2 I c 1- 2'5
fingertip?!) Still; Hats, 4pc ones for 21c 0W -
a nos 1 e prons or 2 I - . -
Mags“... 2:: Handkerchleft gazzrezizlsusia.... 3::
6 Ladies’ and Gents’ Colored Bor- 2 extra good 170 Turkish Towels 2":
“1“, Lawn Handkerchiefs for 2“: 3 yards All Linen Crash, the 90
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2 yards No. 12 Ribbons, all colors Swiss Handkerchiefs for 2Ic 3 yards Large Colored Plaid Crash
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11 yards Baby Ribbon, all colors dered Handkerchiefs for 2lc 5 yards Crash, the 5c kind, for 2lc
for . 2lc
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Domestic. Fringe. Hosiery Department.
5 yards DometFlennel for 210 5 yzljgrsfmig¥ work Fringe, all 2": Ladies also.) HOSP, polka dot, fast
5 yards Ginghom for 210 ’ , - K, .1 1- black, for _ 2Ic
. 3 yards fancy ball I‘ringe, a. co . ,
5 yards Print for 210 ore for 2“; 4 pairs Gents Brown Hose for . 2Ic
5 yards Scotch Dress Lawns for 21c ’ 2 pairs'Ladie’ Fan Pin-«k 15c hose, 2lc'
5 yards 4-4 Brown Muslin for 21c . 2 pairs,Men’s Em mm” 150 Hose for 210
1 Window Shade complete for 21c HaIIIburgs 3 pairs Children’s 1,“ch .1 Black .
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A POINTERW.
Is your plate glass or safe insured? if not, call on me and

I will write you a policy in the Mutual Plate Glass, and Safe Insur-

ance Company. Glass will break and burglars use dynamite.

In case of Fire

You should be insured. A policy in the Reliance or 1‘ hiladelphia
Phoenix of Hartford; Scotland Union of Scotland; New Hampshire of
Manchester; Rochester Germanof Rochester; United States and Pacific

of New York; Security of New Hampshire or Granite State oi Parts-

mouth will protect‘you against the fire fiend.

W. Er. BYINGTQNT.

Real Estate and General Insurance,

noon 1. GAZETTE; BUILDING T

LOANS NEGOTIATED AND INVESTMENTS MADE.

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