Volcanic Eruption

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 169, 16 January 1914, Page 5

Volcanic Eruption

RESCUE FACILITIES INADEQUATE. HEROIC EFFORTS. HI XDREDS DROWXED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 15, 5.5 p.m. Tokio, J aiDiary 14. The means available for rescue, work at Sakurashima arc altogether inadequate. Crowds of fugitives on the bench are being overtaken by the (ire and lava, though Hie launches have plied hcroieallv am id a bail of boulders and stones.

One sh'p, with till/ refugees, «uik during the second eruption. Many others were drowned in trying to swim tile Straits,

I WIDESPREAD DEVASTATION. SMOKE THREE MILES lIIC.II. Times-Sydney Sun Special Cables. Received 15, 7.40 p-ni. Tokio, January. 14. All the villages round Sakurasliima. have been destroyed. Kagoshima is embedded from two to three feet in ashes. The volcano is emitting smoke three miles high, and ashes are falling here, RIM! miles away. - The mainland for several miles from. Sakura lias been totally destroyed by lire and flood.

I PAXIC-STKK'KKX RT.ITIVES. MEET A WAITING GRAVE. Received 15, 11.40 p.m. Tokio, January 14. Saknra'shinni is shrouded in black smoke, broken occasionally by the | liieker of liames. j The bay is covered with lava. | There are no refugees from (luce, of | I lie villages near Sakurashima. Some |oi the fugitives 10.-t their way in the j thick smoke, and were sull'ocaled by the i poisonous gasc:i, while others, tervorj stricken by the lire, rushed into tlie ) son. and were drowned. The earthquakes are now subsiding, but appalling rumblings continue. A typhoon is blowing. .Six hundred houses at Kagoshinia chllapscd after one violent shock on Monday. The shaking of the earth was so great that it was impossible to walk upright, so that the fugitives had to crawl or .stumble out of the <'ity mainly on their hands and knees.

SI UK OP VOLCANO iiLOWS OUT.

ANOTHER TIDAL WAVE. HORRIBLIi SCEX'ics. SEVENTY THOUSAND MISSIKG. Received 10, 1.30 a.m. Tokio, January 15. The west side, of the volcano Mow out Inst night, vomiting (ire furiously. It was followed by another tidal wave. The sea. is in a hailing condition. Earthquakes continue, and destruction i 3 everywhere. I Horrible scenes, are enacted. Thirteen thousand houses haive been doatroyed. Seventy thousand |ieO|ile are

nii.ssing. NEWS (OXFIRMED. Tokio, January 14. Warships which have arrived from Kagosliima report, lliat it was practically destroyed by the eruption, also villages and towns in the neighborhood.