QUAKE IN THE CELEBES.
VILLAGES DESTROYED. 107 BURIED AE— — (Received 11.15 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, March 31. Advices have been received that on March 14 a severe earthquake was experienced in the Dutch Islands of Siave, Sangir, and Talant, in the north-east of the Celebes Group. Several villages were destroyed, and 107 of their inhabitants were buried alive beneath the falling timbers. AH were dead when the rescuers lifted the debris from their bodies.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 77, 1 April 1913, Page 5
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