A GREAT DISASTER.
VILLAGES IN EAST JAVA FLOODED.
LARGE NUMBER OF LIVES LOST A FAMINE FEARED. United Press Assoeiation-By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received October 5, 10 15 a.m. SYDNEY. October 5. News from Singapore gives details of a great disaster in East Java, owing to the crater of a volcano giving way when full of water. Torrents rushed down the mountain side, carrying enormous quantities of sand and mud. The rivers overflowed their banks and swept everything before them. Six hundred lives were lost at one ullage, and in another place sixty persons were buried alive beneath mud and sand, It will take at least a year to repair the railway lino A famine is feared owing to the destruction of the grain stocks.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9613, 6 October 1909, Page 5
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124A GREAT DISASTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9613, 6 October 1909, Page 5
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