THE JAVA ERUPTION
— » BETWEEN 10,001) AND 15,000 LIVES LOST. Sydney, July 4. Further details of tho Java eruption show that' a train which was always kept in readiness to convey Europeans (o safely was caught -and overwhelmed by lava. It was dug out some days later. The effects of the eruption were felt two' hundred miles away. Although tho outbreak occurred at 2 o'clock in the morning, arid only lasted ■an hour, the district waa in -darkness until 2 o'clock on the following aftcrnoou. -, ■ . Later, returns show that between ten and fifteen thousand peoplo perished.— Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 241, 5 July 1919, Page 7
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97THE JAVA ERUPTION Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 241, 5 July 1919, Page 7
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