Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Returning yesterday from the scene of the recent earthquake in Yokohama, J. B. Squier '24 related to a CRIMSON reporter last evening some of the tragic incidents of the disaster. Had it not been for the courage and the countless acts of heroism, the incredible suffering of the people would...
News of the disaster did not reach Kobe, where Mr. Squier was staying, until Monday. Within three hours, the American and English business men in the city had raised $50,000. The West o' Rowa, an American ship, was unloaded and reloaded with supplies for the refugees in eighteen hours...
4) That confusion over radio compass bearings sent to the wrecked ships was probably the cause of the wreck. Captain Cousins testified that, although in foggy weather he took radio compass directions, he did not rely on them. "They are wrong," he declared, "as often as they are right." The...
Disaster, out of the earth, shook the foundations and shattered the superstructure of Hondo, principal island of Japan. Tokyo and Yokohama and all cities for 400 miles along the East coast were reported to be in ruins. The magnitude of the disaster was the entire burden of the reports. The...
No official reports were received. From Shanghai came indirect information of the disaster, and disaster was the one sure truth. A quake of unparalleled severity, fire, tidal waves, famine, explosives, hundreds of thousands of houses wrecked, hundreds of thousands of people killed?fact and fiction were woven in a horrible...