QUAKE DISASTER
230 KNOWN DEAD
(United Press Association- — By Electi ic Telegraph—Copyright).
VANCOUVER, Dec. 4. 4ah a refugees say that the damage at the city is throe million sterling.
A hospital was burnt following the ’quake, and two hundred were injured Ed t\ -four are dead and one hundred injured ill Port Constitution. The damage is widespread. Practically all the population there and in the surrounding villages are living in touts in the open squares.
The total known dead in the entire ’quake /.one, stands at 2JO.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1928, Page 5
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