The Sunda Disaster.
LATER DETAILS.
A TERRIBLE DEATH ROLL.
(by elbotric telegbjLph.— copyright.) (redter's telegrams. ) Cooktown, Sept. 21. The steamship Roma, from London, via Bat ivia, brings details regard? ing the Sunda disaster, which fully confirm the previous news that the tidal wave was a hundred feet high. It swept several large vessels fully three miles inland j. where they remained high and dry, the crews- being all saved. The Roma found the sea around Java covered •, with pumice, and , her engines became choked. All familiar land-marks had disappeared. The loss of life is set down at 75,000, bnt it was not possible to estimate the amount of damage to property, .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 251, 25 September 1883, Page 2
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