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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1923
Page
9
Ned Comet and Lenore face a treacherous northern voyage aboard a small ship. Lenore battles fear and fascination with the unseen vastness of sea and stars while Ned confronts his own weakness and doubts of endurance as they drift toward uncharted ice and storm.
Reports from Osaka prefecture outline widespread damage in Tokyo wards Tonjo Fukagawa Kanda Onbashi Kaybashi and parts of Yotsuya Shiba Oshiome Kaishikawa with 200000 homes burned and 150 deaths. Yokohama suffered massive fires and an estimated 100000 refugees. Martial law is in effect.
A Reuters dispatch from Osaka reports about one hundred foreigners believed killed in Yokohama. The casualties include the American and British consuls. A Kokusai News Agency message says the Kokusai building in Tokyo was demolished by the quake.
Advices from the Mitsui wireless agency report the Japan bank and all surrounding buildings in Yokohama destroyed. It is feared many Mitsui directors were inside the collapsing building during the weekly Saturday noon conference.
A private message relayed to Charles Cheney reports 100000 maimed or injured in Tokyo and 160000 dead in Yokohama area. Officials cite widespread destruction with telegraph lines down and one million homeless. Four wards largely spared while other areas face fire and flood.
A fleet of eight Martin bombers from Langley Field sank the old battleship Virginia after bombs exploded along the hull and near the turrets. The New Jersey remained afloat, though listed with a port list, as tests demonstrated bombing at 10 000 feet. Two separate flights dropped 26 000 pounds then 12 the attacks marked the first American warships targeted under the naval treaty terms. Reverend Daniel Stoltzfus, Amish minister, dies in Lancaster barn fall while hanging tobacco crop.
An Oyama message states great damage to Yokohama and Hakone with Tokio under martial law. An earthquake relief bureau is set up in Tokio as army units move toward the capital. No word on the safety of consulate staff families or private individuals. no telegraph lines are being kept.
Mrs Romilla Stephens of Martha West Virginia details relief from stomach trouble gas and nervous strain after using Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery Favorite Prescription and Pleasant Pellets. She reports throat relief as well and endorses obtaining these medicines from local druggists and writing to the Invalids' Hotel for advice.
Joseph Thomas Moran of Lee Massachusetts American vice consul here drowned when his car slid off a narrow dock into thirty feet of water in Port au Prince. Moran formerly served as a gunnery sergeant in the Marine Corps in Santo Domingo and was recently assigned to this post.
Coroner Neville reports Francis Dietz aged 10 of Sanderton died in the Perkinmen at Spring Mount during Labor Day after plunging to save Rose Scanin of Norristown and Margaret Lafferty of Consnohoecken. Dietz gave his life for others.
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