GRATER GIVES WAY.
DISTRICT SWEPT BY WATER. MAXY LIVES LOST. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyriglit Syaney, October fi. News from Singapore gives details of tlic disaster at East Java, owing to the crater of the volcano giving wav when lull of water. Torrents rushed down the mountain side carrying enormous quantities of sftnd and on'ud. The rivers overflowed their banks and swept everything before them. Six hundred live") were lost at one village, and sixty persons were buried alive beneath the mud and .sand. It will take at least a,year to repair the railway line. A famine is feared owing to tile destruction of the grain stocks.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 207, 6 October 1909, Page 2
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105GRATER GIVES WAY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 207, 6 October 1909, Page 2
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