Very different were its results in the central zone of agitation, concerning which a correspondent wrote as follows: There was a noise as of underground artillery, a shake, a second shake, and in less than thirty seconds the nagoya-Gifu plain, covering an area of 1,200 square miles, became a sea of waves, more than 40,000 houses fell, and thousands of people lost their lives.
"Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror"
Richard Linthicum Trumbull White Samuel Fallows
The theatre of maximum destruction was a plain, dotted with villages and homesteads, supporting, under the garden-like culture of Japan, 500 and 800 inhabitants to the square mile, and containing two cities, nagoya and Gifu, with populations respectively of 162,000 and 30,000, giving probably a round total of half a million human beings.
"Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror"
Richard Linthicum Trumbull White Samuel Fallows
nagoya, too, suffered heavily, and thousands of houses collapsed.
"Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror"
Richard Linthicum Trumbull White Samuel Fallows