Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 41, 4 November 1893 — EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN. [ARTICLE]

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EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN.

Heaviest Shock Experienco»l for Slxty Yean*. Vancouver, October 24.—The rej>ort of the recent big earthquake in Kagoshi, Japan. receivrd by the Japan“?e Goverument, says that tbe shock waa the heaviest for fifty or eixty years. Tbe water in ?ome wells dried up; in others itchanged color and overfl.»wed. Sixty-three cracks were n<»ticrd in the roads and stone walls wt-re br.»ken at many differenl plaeee.