EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE.

Wairarapa Age, 9 March 1927, Page 5

EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE.

HAVOC WROUGHT IN JAPAN.

MILL WORKERS KILLED.

FURTHER SHOCKS REPORTED.

TOKIO, March 7, A radio message reports a severe earthquake at Osaka and Kobe, which was felt slightly at Tokio at 7.30 p.m.. Electricity at Osaka was cut off and the city plunged in darkness, but hitherto no serious damage is reported. The population is terrified. Milder shocks are . continuing.—(A. and N.Z.) (Received Tuesday, 8.15 p.m.) TOKIO, March 7. Seven girls were killed when, a spin-* ning mill dormitory at Osaka collapsed* Thirty were injured.—(A. and N.Z.) WIDESPREAD DAMAGE. SEVERAL TOWNS BADLY SHAKEN. (Received Tuesday, 8.15 p.m.) HONOLULU, March 7. A cablegram from Tokio reports that a fire at Osaka, following tho earthquake, did widespread damage, but has now been brought under control. The earthquake followed the basin of the river Kioto. Railways were crippled, telegraph wires came down and several towns were badly shaken. Part of the city of Kototi, with a population of thirty thousand, was a raging inferno owing to a fire after the earthquake.— (A. and N.Z.) A message despatched from Sydney last night states that the first wave of the Japanese earthquakes reached the Riverview Observatory at 7.39 p.m. and continued at intervals for three hours. A feature was the exceptional length of the waves. Another message, from Rome, reports that Bendandi Observatory recorded a very heavy earthquake shock at 6500 kilometres distance, probably in Asia. The agitation of the instruments lasted for four hours and attained the exceptional amplitude of eighty centimetres.