The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MAY 27, 1902. AWAITING DEATH.
“ Lava streams imprisoned many women and children at Grand Riviera,’so runs our cablegrams to-day. That in itself would be terible enough, hut the utter hopelessness of the position is shown when we read further : ‘'They are seen to be pleading for deliverance but the rendering of aid is impossible. Starvation or overwhelming lava are almost certain to kill them.” The
hearts of the people, we are sure, will go out to those agonised women and Children, in their awful suspense. The woeful picture of it ! There they are on the brink of eternity, with'hardly a chance of escape from the lava that threatens to overwhelm them, or if it does not quite reach them, they have to face death from the pangs of starvation. Looked at in either wav their position is a most pitiable one,’and it would seem almost better that chose impr isoned should be quickly overwhelmed than that they should sutler the frightful torture of that family r f tir e who were rescued days afterwards in a badly burnt state, only to linger and die in agony,
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 426, 27 May 1902, Page 2
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