A DELUGE IN JAVA.
,-■■. ~, ".,'.'V / - ;. CRATER CUP BREAKS. '.*■ HUNDREDS KILLED-VaMINE FEARED. PEOPLE BURIED 'ALIVE. (By. Tclcgrapli-Prcss Awooiatlon-CopyTlftht.) '■ ~■'■"■■■■■.. , '.' Sydney, October, 5. ; News from Singapore gives details of a great disaster in East Java, caused by the crater of a volcano giving way when full of Water. Torrents rushed 1 down the mountain side, carrying enormous quantities .of, sand and' mud. The rivers overflowed their banks'and j swept everything beforo them. ■'■'■ '. " ..'o *- '■ Six hundred lives were lost at ono village;■*-«v> and in another place;sixty persons were buried ,--. : . v alive .beneath mud and Band. '..■.- . '. ' ' It, will take at least a''yearto' v repair tho' ' railway line. It is feared that n famine wilt - occur owing to the • destruction of:tho grait , BtOCks;" '■■ ' •;. ■.;/' .''■■.;. .;■■■.:;' .-.■■.:
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 630, 6 October 1909, Page 7
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117A DELUGE IN JAVA. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 630, 6 October 1909, Page 7
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