POPULATION DISTRAUGHT
✓ HOSPITALS AND SCHOOLS
COLLAPSE.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.— COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
(Received 17th January, 11 a.m.)
TOKIO, 16th January. , n As. a' result,of the earthquake, "the Tokaido railway-is now only running a single line to Daibutsu. At Kamakura, tne line, which was displaced by b-ein" thrust forward by the earthquake of last September, has now been brought backward four inches. Large fissures have been made at Kamakura. Tlie. water supply for Yokohama City has been cut oft, and vessel's in the harboui are sup'r'u m-B i Wil fcS"' t0 meet inimediat<s wants. Ihe Yokohama tram service has been suspended. ■
.Panic-stricken people are camping out m the streets, w-liere a dense fog hanging over Yokohama made the sun appear crimson.
, At Yokohama the casualties were three killed and twelve wounded. : Seven houses were totally destroyed, and three partially collapsed, while- one warehouse, two schools, two factories, and two hospitals fell down.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 14, 17 January 1924, Page 7
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