BAZAAR ENGULFED
Fissure Opened During Indian Quake LARGE AREA SUFFERS By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright Calcutta, August 80. The partial restoration of communications reveals extensive damage to a wide area of North-west India as the result of severe earth tremors since Tuesday, culminating in a severe shock on Thursday night. A full casualty list is at present unprocurable, but it is known that many were killed in Baluchistan. At Sharigh town an extensive Indian bazaar, which was fortunately evacuated after the first tremor, completely disappeared in a huge fissure, while at Mach the gaol was seriously damaged and two warders killed. The prisoners were removed under military guard. Four civilians were killed by the collapse of houses in the bazaar.
The railways round Quetta are blocked, and many towns are still Isolated.
The earthquake appears to have originated at Sharigh, between Mauetta and. Harnai, the first tremor lasting nearly two minutes.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 288, 1 September 1931, Page 9
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