A Canadian, Mr. A. Ardacke, was passing the ruins of the British Consulate at Yokohama immediately after the earthquake when he saw a man struggling in the ruins and went to his. assistance. The man proved to be the British Vice-Consul, Mr. Boulter. He was badly injured about the face and-head.
A mining engineer, Mr. Puring-ton, and his son were killed but. his wife and"daughter were saved. Mr. Purington carried his daughter to safety and returned to rescue his son who was caught in the wreckage but both were buried under falling walls.
Captain Davis James, a British resident, organized. a party including 50 coolies and made two-trips to Miyanoshita. He conducted refugees overland, the coolies carrying those unable to walk.
Mrs. W. H. C. Weippert, the wife of the Commissictier of Customs at Wuhu, who was spending the summer at a hotel in Miyanoshita, was among those rescued by Captain James, with her three small children. The swimming pond in the garden dried-up in two minutes, Mr. George Firth of, Messrs. Samuel Samuel & Ca., was lying slightly ill of his home beyond the Bluff at Yokohama when his room careened and his house actually leaped from its foundation. Fortunately he managed to escape with his two children.—Reuter.
RELIEF FUNDS, London, Sept. 8.
The Queen has donatee £250 to the Lord Mayor's Japanese relief fund.
The Lord Mayor's Japanese fund is at present £70,000. A first instalment of £36,000 has already been handed to the Japanese Ambassador.—Reuter.
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