EARTHQUAKES
CABLE NEWS
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SERIOUS DAMAGE IN ASIATIC RUSSIA. SEVEN HUNDRED FAMILIES .HOMELESS. (Received Last Nig!..'* ~> . •'» o cici-k.) ST. PETERSBURG, January 7. As the result of the earthquake clefts three feet wide appeared in the ground at Vyemyi, the capital of a province in Asiatic Russia, in the neighbourhood of East Turkestan. Many demented people are searching for their relatives. Not a single house has escaped undamaged. As many as seven hundred families are homeless, and are sheltering in schools and barracks. Many, fearing a repetition of the shocks, pass the nights in the open air. The weather is intensely cold. The ground in the vicinity of Vyernyi in some places rose, and in others subsided. Huge boulders lying on glaciers oh tli3 snowfields were hurled out, of position. Many persons were buried:by JancW ; slidesr .' . •;•"■'• ■■'.-■'-'-.r'■■'■'<■:•■'■■■: -' The roads to - Pryevalsh are im pass- : able owing to changes in the configuration of the country and fissures. A later report states that two hundred perished. The shocks continue. PARIS, January 7. Two shocks of earthquake were experienced at Moulins, a town in the department of Allier, on the river Allier, in France.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 9 January 1911, Page 5
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194EARTHQUAKES Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 9 January 1911, Page 5
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