TERRIBLE DISASTER.
HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST IN JAVA.
FAMINE FEARED
United 1 Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
SYDNEY, October o,
News from Singapore gives details of a terrible disaster in East Java. Owing to the crater of a volcano giving way, when full of water, torrents rushed oown the mountain side carrying enormous quantities of sand and mud. The rivers overflowed their banks and swept everything before them. At one village 600 people were drowned, and 60 persons buried alive beneath the mud' and sand. It will take at least a year to repair the railway line. Famine is feared, owing to the destruction of th,e grain stocks.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13546, 6 October 1909, Page 7
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