DISASTER IN JAVA.
CABLE NEWS.
SIN HUNDRED LIVES LOST
Unithd Pitiisa Association— Copyiughi SYDNEY, Oct. 5. News from Singapore gives details of a disaster at 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 village sixty persons were buried alive beneath the mud and sand. It will take at least a year to repair the railway line. A famine is feared owing to the destruction of the grain stocks.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2625, 6 October 1909, Page 5
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105DISASTER IN JAVA. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2625, 6 October 1909, Page 5
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