DESTRUCTIVE ERUPTION.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 June 1919, Page 4

DESTRUCTIVE ERUPTION .

GREAT LOSS Off LIB®. JAVA DESOLATED. By Tslecraoh.—Pr«i Asblt-Copyright. Brisbane, June 24. Details of the Java eruption show that three streams of mud, boiling water, and sand poured down from' Mount Kloet, struck Bitta, and dee troy ed the Cbin«se quarter, burying ,thousands of native*. The rain of ashes and stones continued for two days and nights, destroying 40,000 acres of. rich sugar and coffee land. It is estimated thatdOjDOO persons, 1 including a few whites/periiW. - AuddM>d, Jun6 News by the Waitomo (roof Singapore gives a few additional particulars of the earthquake at Kloet, Java, reported by cable It destroyed 30 villages and thousands of lives. The centra of the disturbance is stated to bar? beta Kloet, ' where the lake on an extinct volcano overflowed and swept down the hillsides. The European inhabitants escaped in motor cars, hut thousands of natives were overwhelmed.

LAKE OX MOUNTAIN. '. '

BURSTS AND SWEEPS D6WN TBS MOUNTAIN BQ>E, , 10 FEET HIGH AND 10 MILES WIDEk By Telegraph.—Press Association, Auckland, Last Night., Further particulars of the Jarfe snip* Hon brought to Auckland Vy the Wpi> tomo to-day show that residents of Bwa» baya, where the Waitomo visited, Stated that the lake on Mount Kloet contained over 40 million tons of . grata. When the eruption occuned the crater burst, and the Contents swept down the mountain side like a tidal wave 10 feet hijfr and 10 miles wide. Owing to the toad, being situated round the foot of the mountain many of the fugitives who were fleeing from the danger on Mot and in motor caw were ovenrhelmed by the body of water ana killed.