Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1891 — EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN. [ARTICLE]

EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN.

Said to Have Thrown Down a City and Killed 300 Inhabitants. ’ "*■ • A private telegram dated Hiogo. received at London on the 28th contain:' the report conveyed in former teiqgrams that a disastiWs,earthqnake shock lias occurred in Japan. This telegram says that a severe shock was experienced at Osaka, and that the destruction of both life and property was very great. So severe was the shock that a number of houses were thrown to the ground, and many of thw occupants werecanghtin the falling buildings and crushed to <1 eat h. A large number of persons succeeded ill escaping from their tot tering homes only to meet death in th si eels, to which they had fled for safety from the falling debris. There ts no means at present of estimating the total loss ol life. In fact the details of tho catastrophe are very meager, as all the telegraph wires are broken in the districts affected by the falling of the polos, which wer thrown down by the seismic disturbance. The above mentioned private dispatch, however, states, that it is known tjiat in Osaka alone the- 1 death list contains the names of three hundred of the residents ol that city.