DREADFUL EARTHQUAKE AT MANILLA.
Ose Thousand Lives Lost!! ADELAIDE, 10th August. On June 3, at half-past seven p.m., a circumambient flame was seen to rise from the earth, and gird the city of Manilla. A most terrific shaking of tho earth then took place, lasting scarcely n minute, but in that short time nearly the whole of Manilla was reduced to a heap of ruins. Upwards of a thousand persons were killed, and many thousands wounded. The British Consulate was entirely destroyed. The city is nearly deserted, as the edifices left threaten to fall. Suddenly, before the earthquake took place, sulphurous odours were perceived, a rumbling like the firing of ordnance, and then like the approach of an immense locomotive and train. Not a single foreigner was killed. The pahice, cathedral, and all the public buildings were thrown down, or shaken from their foundations. The survivors are fearful, and nervous of another visitation.
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Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 82, 18 August 1863, Page 3
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153DREADFUL EARTHQUAKE AT MANILLA. Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 82, 18 August 1863, Page 3
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