INDIAN EARTHQUAKE
OVER SEVEN THOUSAND KILLED
Calcutta, Feb. 15. Mr N. N. Sinha, Provincial Minister, told the Legislature of Bihar today that the death-roll In the recent earthquake was 7057, but numbers of dead were still under debris. The actual total probably would never be known. The greatest loss was in the Tlrbut division, where there were deaths. Twelve hundred were W" ed in the town of Monghyr and siin Sitamarhi, where the shock ***. the most intense. The Government of India was gi " Ing comprehensive relief, Mr St*® ■ added. For 900 miles the oort western Bengal railway track *aseriously affected and embankment and bridges had been destroyed^^ " ' 1 ' 1
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXII, Issue 11346, 16 February 1934, Page 2
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