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ART. 3. — B. KOTÔ : 



cliff end near Ten- 

 jiu-ga-Séto at the 

 west of the city, 

 entombing a dozen 

 people who were 

 running from dan- 

 ger ; another land- 

 slip occurred at 

 Niken-jaya under 

 the same geologic 

 condition, where 

 the light railway 

 line running south- 

 wards from the 

 city to Tani-yama 

 on the coast was 

 buried under the 

 fallen rubbish. 



The third shde 

 was at the basalt 

 cliff of the Yoshino 

 mesa (Geologic 

 Map), 400 w. high, 



along the coast between the city and Shigétomi, where the rails and 

 telegraph posts were heavily damaged for a considerable distance by 

 fallen blocks of one or more cubic metres. All communication with this 

 out-of-the way city of Kagoshima was thereby cut off from the outer 

 world, and this was the unfortunate cause of the rumor which spread 

 all round the world, that the city with a population of 73,000 was 

 totally annihilated and buried alive under the lava from Mt. Sakura- 

 jima, 8 km. distant beyond the sea from the nearest venthole ! 



Fig. 17. — Houses in Kagoshima damaged by the earthquiike. 

 (Photo taken on Jan, 16.) 



