The wardens risked their lives to unlock the workhouse and cellblocks so that prisoners could go out into the yard. A series of jolts caused the wooden buildings to collapse, one after another. The prison housed over 1,100 inmates, all of whom were inside the high-security workhouse, solitary confinement blocks, or cellblocks at the time of the quake. ![]() Prisoners Help Rescue Survivors Rather than Escape The perimeter wall and cellblocks were destroyed in a matter of moments. The wall collapsed at the moment of the Great Kantō Earthquake, which left 105,000 dead and unaccounted for. ![]() A sudden earthquake at 11:58 am on September 1, 1923, caused the total collapse of the Yokohama Prison’s 5-meter-high brick perimeter wall, which stretched 300 meters north to south and 260 meters east to west.
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