ish. Consul-General has received an urgent request that people will not attempt to, except it be on the most urgent business. He asks us to publish this.
Kobe,. Sept. 4.
The P. & O: S. Dongola. with 501 refugees on board, arrived here this morning and the Admiral -Line str, Prestdent Jefferson and four other steamers are also here, or due, with 2,000 sufferers from Yokohama, The refugees give hav rowing accounts of the devasatation in Yokohama and all pres that the city jis practically, off the map." Business canteen, foreign as well as Japanese, and the Bluff residential quarter are all in ruins. Banks. hotels, business houses, consulates, churches and theatres are all destroyed.
It is computed that. 100 foreigners are killed, and the following deaths ar 8. Consul) scoff, Mr. Paul Vieo-Consul), Dr. Worden, Dr. Gilmore Smith. Messrs, L. Zemgsch, Messrs. L. Zembsch, Paul Cannon, Angolia and Gimson, all of whom are American; Mr. Hugh Home, the British Commercial Attache, Dr. Edwin Wheeler, Messrs. W. Haig, J. Hibbs and Tait (of the, Chartered Bank), Lefroy. Tom Abbey, W. B. Mason, all British subjects: the French Consul, M. Dejardin, and Mme. Dejardin and their child, M. and Mme, Cotte, Dr. Reidhaar. (Swiss), Mr. Rubatelli, Mrs. Rowbottom, Mrs. A. Gray, Mrs. A. Gray, Mrs. Kirkland Wilson. Mr. Somerton, Mr. and Mrs. Ribeiro and their son, Mr, Louis Watson, and Mr, Lees, British Consular Shipping Clerk.
It is doubtful whether the following are dead er missing Mrs. and Miss Holyoak Box, Mr. and Mrs. Mollison, Mr. Maurice Russell. and Mr. C. E. Schneely, of the Standard Oil Ce.
A_locul relief committee consisting of Consuls and_ leading residents of all nationalities are doing everything possible "to mitigate the distress and suffer-
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