THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE
■ AT KANGRA’ 4500. PEOPLE ! PERISH.:
LADY CURZON’S BEDROOM AND SITTING ROOM WRECKED.
By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. CALCUTTA, April 9. A. stone chimney fell in a room above,, wrecking Lai'dy Curzonj’s bedroom anil sitting room. It is believed that four thousand five hundred people have been killed at Kangra.;
CASUALTIES 20,000.
MOUNTAIN SIDE SPLITS IN SEVERAL PLACES.
TERRIFIC LANDSLIPS.
NATIVES ENGULPHED WHILE PRAYING AT WAYSIDE SHRINE
By Telegraph—Press Assooiation—Copyright Received 12.45 a.m., April 11. London, April 11. The Daily Express states that it is officially estimated that the earthquake casualties were twenty thousand, half in Kaugara Valley. There were fearful scenes at Dharmsala, where the mountain side split in several places. There were terrific landslips. Hundreds of tons of rock overwhelmed houses beneath. The European deaths totalled 37, and 20 are missing. Most people were asleep at tho moment of the disaster. A group of natives were engulphed by the sudden opening of a chasm while they were kneeling at a wayside shrine.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1427, 11 April 1905, Page 2
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