THE JAVA ERUPTION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18132, 25 June 1919, Page 8

THE JAVA ERUPTION.

ENORMOUS DAMAGE. j GREAT LOSS"-OP LIFE. | By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright { ' Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. BRISBANE, June U. Details of the .Java eruption show that three streams of mud, boiling water and sand poured down from Mount - Rloet and struck Bitta, destroyed tho Chinese quarter,, burying'thousands of natives. ! The. rain of ashes and stones continued for two days and -nights, ruining 40,000 acres of "rich sugar, cafe and rubber land, i It is estimated that 60,000. including a few whites, perished. ! FURTHER PARTICULARS. ' j . f ' ' N _■ ' i •'' , ' [?xk Preps Association.) AUCKLAND, June 24. ' News-by the Waitomo, from Singapore,' included a few additional particulars regarding the earthquake at Klocha, Java, which was reported by cable to have destroyed .thirty villages and thousands of lives. The centre of .the'disturbance is stated to have been. Coelet, where a lake on an extinct volcano overflowed ami swept down . tno hillside The European inhabitants escaped in motor-cars, but thousands of nathes were overwhelmed'. . ■AN OVERWHELMING, TCSIBENT. "■ [Pub Pkkss Association.] ';, . 'AUCKLAND, June 2-t '■) Further particulars of the Java eruption brought to Auckland by the v Wai-r tamo t'Orday show that residents ot Surabava, where the Waitomo visited, stated "that the lake on Mount Kloefc contained over forty million tons of water.. When the eruption occurred, the crater burst and the content*! ran down tho ■ mountain side like a tidal wiive, ten feet high and ten miles wide. Owing to the road being situated round the foot of the mountain, many of the fugitives who were fleeing from the danger on foot and in- motor-cars were overwhelmed by tho body of water and killed. . ■', - ■. '■ ====== . . > ,'i