MANY LIVES LOST.
SAND PRESSURE CAUSES HOUSES TO COLLAPSE.
BOYS ENGULPHED IN LAVA,
BRAVE KING AND QUEEN.
BARRICADES PREVENT LAVA REACHING POMPEII.
By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Conyrigh' Received 10.45 p m., April 10.
Roma, April 10. The rain of ashes at Mount Ottaiano destroyed estates throughout the San Guiseppe dietiict. The pressure of sanl on the roofs cause! bouses aud a ohuroh at San Guiseppe to collapse. Two hundred perished. Fifty bodioß have been recovered. There were several fatalities at Ottaino. Some boys trod on a morass of cooling lava and were unguiphed. Ashes on the railway at Portia derailed the train. Barricades prevent the lava reaching Pompeii. Toe King and Qae n of Italy at great personal risk motored through the devastated villages amidst n gale of whiiliog cinders and sand, tml oomfjrted the sufferers.
The act vity of the volcano is diminishing, hut the discharge of balls of fire aod showers of sand continue. A black dust desoendel on Monteregri. The principal orator of Vesuvius Bank 250 metres below its former level.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1721, 11 April 1906, Page 2
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