Sept. 10. Tay eries of interviews with of the earthquake most of the field of disaster, with the exception of Tokio. That is rather like Hamlet with the Prince of Denmark left out. But it is clear that Tokio—suffered less in comparison—than Yokohama, the worst of the dun age there, being done by frey which would give the alilicted people more time to get away. 'The unutterable horror of to-day's descriptions leaves one almost stunned. One tries to translate the catastrophe into terms of the life about us, but the imagination cannot do_ it. "In a moment in the twinkling, of an eye,' the city had collapsed; what the earthquake spared, flames sprang up to devour; and Yokohama, the peaceful, with its poetic name and its atmosphere of twilight tranquillity was but a heap of i as a Chinese survivor ly puts it, like a piece of glass that has fallen on stone ground from a great height."
In all this tale of—tarr certain, features stand out in bright relief. Foremost we would venture to put the heroic work of the Empress of Australia, herself in the deadliest peril, saved only by a miracle of seamanship, yet by hook or by crook saving thousands of the fugitives and contriving to bring them and herself alive and sound out of the jaws of death. tis a tale-worthy of the highest
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