ISLAND DISASTER

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10184, 9 March 1911, Page 5

ISLAND DISASTER

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association—By Efec : trie Telegraph — Copyright.

VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES'

HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE REPORTED.

(Received Last Night, 9.55 o'clock)

. SYDNEY, March 8. Eastern liles conltlain details of eruptions of the volcano of' Taal, 34 miles from Manila. They started at two o'clock on the morning of January. 29th, simultaneously with two prolonged earthquakes. All the houses wjJnin a radius of 120 miles suffered a deluge of stone;; and' mud. An island in Lake Taal sank several feeif. Following the sinking, a wave four feet high swept the shore for a radius of four miles, wrecking many houise*. 'The Manila Observatory reports that a ■renwirkahle electrical storm continued for two hours, with deafening thunder. Lava and stones were belched 3000 ft high. The 'observatory recorded 332 earth shocks. The people in all directions abandoned the villages and fled to the Mils. In the interior the Southern Railroad was damaged. Mud and ashes cover the tracks. Tlie -authorities -say that Manila is sinking, and that the Talsya district is partly submerged and the crops ruined. ->' .' An American school teacher, who traversed the west shore of Lake Taal, reported that five villages were destroyed by a tidal wave; and 300 persons' killed.