WAIMANGU CATASTROPHE.
TERRIFIC WAVE SWEEPS FOUR PEOPLE INTO BOILING WATER. FOUR LIVES LOST. • TWO LADIES SCALDED TO DEATH IN MOTHER’S PRESENCE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, last night. A shocking catastrophe is reported from Rotorua.
There was an unusually severe eruption of Waimangu geyser this afternoon, resulting in' the death of Misses Nicholls, of North Canterbury, aad Messrs McNaughton (Ponsonby), and Joe Warbxick, brother of the well-known guide. They were looking at an eruption. They were near the shelter-shed, standing on a hill overlooking the geyser. They went too near in the desire to take snap-shots. The eruption took the form of a udat wave, becoming suddenly terrific, and the four people named were swept off the hill by the force of the water into the overflow of the geyser whore there is a depth of 12 feet. They were carried down in the boiling water nearly a mile towards Lake Botomahana, the bodies being recovered some time after. A considerable portion of the clothing was torn off.
Mrs Nicholls accompanied her daughters, but esoaped. Another man in closb proximity succeeded in resisting the force of water.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 982, 31 August 1903, Page 2
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186WAIMANGU CATASTROPHE. Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 982, 31 August 1903, Page 2
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