THE ERUPTION OF TAAL.
-<-» •' 'hn,.r VILLAGERS EXTERMINATED. By Telegraph—Press Association-OopyriEht' Brisbane, March 20. The chief medical officer at Manila has arrived here. He gives a vivid description of the eruption on the Island of Taal, near Manila, which began on January 29. The explosion was lieard at a distance of 250 miles. It was followed by a tidal wave, which swept six miles inland. The inhabitants were exterminated, the only living thing found being a,monkey; All the bodies were recovered. About 1500 of them were completely naked. Tho seismic wave travelled towards the town of Lemerjv the country around subsiding to a depth of sis feet.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1081, 21 March 1911, Page 5
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106THE ERUPTION OF TAAL. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1081, 21 March 1911, Page 5
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