TERRIBIE ERUPTION IN JAPAN
a DREADFUL AND HARROWING J DETAILS. 5 [BY ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH— OOPV/BIOHT] (PER PRESS ASSOOrATION.) [ (Reoelved August 22, 12 40 p.m.) i Thursday Island, August 22. ; Details are to hand concerning a 1 terrible eruption m Japan. The island of Bun Tig Yun, one hundred square | miles m extent, was the scene of the , ( visitation which took place on July 14. i The shock was most violent, and almost ■ paralysed the inhabitants who number ' about 2000. The town was virtually [ split m two by the upheaval, and large . numbers of terror-stricken inhabitants i were swallowed up m the chasm caused 1 by the eruption. Many of the people j rushed to the foot of the mountains and . were killed by the falling lava and boulders. Nearly all the houses m the 3 island were destroyed, and moßt of the i residents were killed. The eruption > lasted from morning till dark, and next | day a fire sprung out from the crater. [ It was m the panic that ensued that 1 most of the lives were lost. The c mountain virtually fell on the town \ burying large numbers, and many who r escaped were subsequently starved to ; death. i —
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1925, 22 August 1888, Page 2
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200TERRIBIE ERUPTION IN JAPAN Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1925, 22 August 1888, Page 2
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