A Singular Incident.
SWALLOWED UP.< A strange catastrophe iis reported from Laybach, IHyria (Austrian Empire). The Zirknitz Sea m that locality is re« | ruarkable for the periodical disappearance of the water every summer. A rapidly growing 1 crop of grass and some quickgrowing vegetation bta gathered during the autumn from the dried bed of the lake by the neighbouring peasants. Recently a peasant woman and her daughter were b°ing conveyed m a cart across the bed of the lake, which was still covered with} water m some places. Suddenly the cart and its occupants were precipitated into a chasm, through which the water was being swallowed down m a great vortex, and which had not been noticed till too late. ' "With great difficulty the woman was rescued,but the child and cart were sucked down into the abyss below. ,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 71, 28 February 1883, Page 2
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138A Singular Incident. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 71, 28 February 1883, Page 2
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