Yokohama, Sept. 16.
Reuter's special correspondent revisited Yokohama to-day after an interval of four months. The spectacle of destruction and desolation is overwhelming. No foreigners are ashore except hardworking relief parties. The buildings standing in the city can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and all, of course, are uninhabitable.
The correspondent walked into what had been the British Consulate. There, beside the tennis court, are a few graves containing the remains of Mr. I. OE. Morrison of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Mr. P, A. Cabelou, Mrs. Nicoll and her daughter Helen (both of whom were crushed to death by the collapse of the Chartered Bank, outside which they had been waiting for Mr. Nicoll, an employee of the Bank), Mr. H.
Home, Mr. W. Haigh, Mr. D. Waddell and Mr. J. Lyes, Little black wooden crosses, with names in white, mark where these British victims of the earthquake are buried.
The search parties tell numerous sad stories, While burying Dr.. Wheeler, the Rev. Eustace Strong was asked by a woman if he would bury liier husband. "Where is the body?", he asked. "Here". she replied, undoing a coloured handkerchief in which was a bundle of ashes. They now lie beside Dr. Wheeler.
Dr. Hingston, of the British Hospital, returned to his house to look for the body of his wife: One of his servants handed him a bowl of ashes—all that remained of her.
The son abd daughter-in-law of Mr. J. P. Mollison were immovably pinned under the stairs. Their house-servants say that they were able to seo and speak to each other till the fire consumed
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