AWFUL FATE OF ISLANDERS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1959, 16 January 1914, Page 7

AWFUL FATE OF ISLANDERS.

||WMISSING^RO]yI?3KAGCp liglfl^'^^lill^sii Sffe; CAUGHT Bf iSOLTEN :*.-■■?■•£- ■"v , .: V" ') r-il■'■ ■l'#Z^^^' v &s£ £* Wo€o^"'Mi ": Tokto,fjAiraaryMiSi £ Ue : warships scut to the assistance of the, inhabitants who are in danger of 'destruction by tlic eruption of thn'-volr 'cano SaltTira-Shimn '.. hare. arrived...'at Kauio-Shima. ■ '■'" '■■". .... .. ■■■■ .j : !f>:.; ;. They report that the place'has been practically dosti'oved by the eruption,' as well as the villages and towns in the neighboHrhood.' . ■„..■. ■?*, ■■'■■.■ ■■■■ ■■; The moans at hand fer' Ui'e'. : rescue'of itho. fugitives from the ; lava-.- stream : poured forth by Mount' Sakura-shima wero altogether inadequate. ■ Crowds ef, ■fugitives on tho beach wore overtaken' by h'ro and lava, though tho ■■-launches plied heroically amid a hail of.'boulders and stones. ' . : ..." '. ' '~../.' One ship with 307 refugees on board sank during the second eruption. Many other fugitives were drowned trying to swim the straite. <-.■'■ '■''■''■ (Ree. January lo s 11.40 p.m.) Toklo, January 15. Mount Sakura-shima is shrouded with'black, smoke, broken by au. occasional flicker of flames.' The Bay of Kagoshinm is covered with lava. None of the refugees from the three villages at the foot of tho volcano escaped. Somo of tho fugitives lost their way in the thick smoko aud wero suffocated by the poisonous gases. Others, terrorstricken by the fire, rushed into the sea and were drowned. The earthquakes are now subsiding, but appalling rumblings from the bowels of the earth continue, and a typhoon is mow raging. Six hundred houses in Kago-shima collapsed after one violent sliork of earthquake on Monday,- and after that tho shaking of tho earth was so great that it was impossible, to walk upright. The- fugitives iiad to crawl and stumble- out of the city mainly on their hands ami knees. -.- (Ree. January 10. 0.25 a.m.) .". .; : ToUlo, January 15, The west side of the volcano blew out. last night, vomiting lire. This was followed by another, tidal wave, the sea boiling furiously. ' .. The earthquakes continue, ; nndin the work of destruction horrible scenes wero witnessed. Thirteen thousand houses have been destroyed, and seventy thousand people are missing. WIDESPREAD DEVASTATION , . '■Times"—Sydney "Sim" Special Cables. (Roc. January 15, 7.45 p.m.) : '.-■ . Tokio, January 14. ' All tho villages round Sakura-shima have been destroyed by tire eruption. ■ Ivago-shima is embedded to a depth of two or three feet in ashes. Tito volcano is omitting smoke thrco miles high, while ashes are falling in Tokio, six hundred miles away. The mainland, several miles from Mount .'hakura-isninin tins been totally destroyed : by.fire and flood. " ..-. -..' <