176 SHOCKS

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1032, 17 February 1927, Page 5

176 SHOCKS

\ CAUSE 600 DEATHS THE BIG EARTHQUAKE. - ( _L_ THUNDER AND LIGHTNING TOO By Telegraph—Press Assn— Copyright (Anst. and N.Z. Cable). London, Feb. 15. Belgrade reports that 176, distinct shocks liave been recorded in. Balkans since Monday. The latest reports indicate that: 600 were killed. In many districts the earthquakes were accompanied by vivid lightning and peats of , terrifying thunder, which added to tlm horror of the scenes.' In the centre of the trouble, in the Montenegro, great fissures appeared in the fields, and huge boulders lima broken mountains crashed into the valleys, accompanied by avalanches of snow and ice, which- levelled forests and houses. .Fields often sank beloAV the river Ica'ol and were converted into swamps. Raihvny lines crumpled, and telegraph ivjres were torn doAvn. !'

A number of houses in fßei Polovolje district, oi'erlooking an embankment, were bodily swept, into the river without ivariiing, droivning their miserable inmates, avlio were hopelessly trapped. A party of Englishmen in Ragusa also eptirienced the Sail Francisco earthquake of 1906. Th of earthquakes recall Professor Bendandi’s prophecy.