AN EARTHQUAKE

Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1930, Page 5

AN EARTHQUAKE

A BURMA VISITATION,

LUnited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. J

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) DELHI. A Lav 6

Over 50,1 are feared to, be dead ii Pegu, Burma, as.the result of ai earthquake, followed by fire and a ticla wave from t!ie rivers Pegu and Sit tang yesternight.-

Rail and telegraph communication, are cut off. Medical aid is being rushed by road.

Fifty were killed and over two hundred injured'at Rangoon wfiero tin shocks were the worst in living memory.

Many buildings including the High Court and Catholic Cathedral were severely damaged.

A majority of the casualties occurred at the Mosque, a five storey building which collapsed burying all the occupants alive. The population fled panic stricken from houses and spent the remainder of the night in parks and open spaces.

FURTHER. PARTICULARS

AWFUL CONDITIONS

(Received this dav at 9.40 a.ra.l DELHI, May 6

Latest reports from Rangoon estimate the Pegu dead at five to seven hundred. The town experienced three shocks. Terrible scenes were witness. An area of two miles was destroyed by fire, hundreds being crushed or burnt to death. Fifty perished at Myoehite cinema.

Following the first shook, the town was plunged into darkness, and a fire broke out in the bazaar area, the wooden buildings quickly blazing. The terrified inhabitants fled and encountered water fohr feet deep from broken mains. They were later overwhelmed by a tidal wave from the river.

ANOTHER RECORDED

SYDNEY, May 6. Another violent earthquake shock has been recorded at the Sydney Observatory. The location of the disturbance is 5.095 miles to the north, in the direction of Japan, or to the north-west of that country.

The shock occurred just before midnight.