The Sunda Disaster
v _ LATER PARTICULARS. bbutbb's telegbams. Cooktown, September 2.1. The steamship Roma from London, via Batavia, brings later details regarding the Sunda disaster, which fully confirms the previous news that the tidal wave was a hundred feet high. It swept several large vessels fully three milea inland, where they reraainded high and dry, the crews being all saved. The Roma found the sea around Java covered with pumice, and her engines became choked. All familiar land marks bad disappeared . The loss of life ie set down at 75,000, but it was not possible, to estimate the amount of damage to p?oi perty.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 47, 22 September 1883, Page 2
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104The Sunda Disaster Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 47, 22 September 1883, Page 2
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