AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
SHOCKING CATASTROPHE. TWELVE THOUSAND LIVES LOST. Sydney, July 18. The steamer Catterbun, from China. briug9 news of a terrible earthquake, which is supposed to have occurred at Sangir Island, in Celebes Sea. The Dutch mail steamer left Saugir for Ti mur, in the Malay Archipelago, and the captaiu reported that shortly after leaving a terrible explosion occurred. The sky was darkened with ashes and smoke and the vossel was covered with ashes. When the atmosphore cleared there was no trace of the island visible. The population is estimated at 12,000. Several sailing vessels were at Sangir at the time and it is almost certain they were destroyed. The Catterbun, while steaming through the Celebes Sea, passed for miles through debris and wreckage of all kinds. One of the small-pox patients visited an Oroya passenger, who subsequently developed the disease. Melboubne, July 16. O'Brien, husband of the woman Annie O'Brien, who is in custody on a charge of being connected with poisoning of v farmer named Cornwell, at Warracknabeal, having disappeared in a mysterious manner shortly before Cornwall's death, there is a suspicion of foul pjay having been resorted to, and the police are in> vestigating (he matter.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 13, 19 July 1892, Page 2
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