Sept. 9.
Reuter's special correspondent states that no description could de anything approaching justice to the awful experience at Yokohama, where the casualties are 80 per cent. of the total population. The shock there was much worse than at Tokio. Hardly a wall was left standing. The streets were literally choked with dead and debris.
After the first shock the place was "flat," said an. escaped American to Reuter''s correspondent. "It was hell let loose when the fire started. Then came half a cyclone with a gale blowing towards the sea. We rushed into the sea to escape -a burning window and remained there up to our necks. God knows what the thousands of poor devils suffered who were maimed or
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