SEVERE EARTHQUAKES

North Otago Times, Volume C, Issue 13180, 8 October 1914, Page 5

SEVERE EARTHQUAKES

mm i,oss oii' life, (Per Calile.—Pross Association,—Copyright) Received September 7, at 8;1:1 p.m. CONSTA NT I NOP LE, October (t. • An earthquake devastated I lie Konia district, Asia .Minor, The victims arc estimated at '2iio(). DAM AC M AT I'OYHHTY PAY, (Per Press Association). .CISfiORNE, October 7. A severe earthquake' was felt here at G.-I7' this 'morning. As a result clocks were slopped, bill, lliorc wau no serious damage. The earthquake was severe at Tokomam Bay, when 1 chimneys were thrown down in all directions, The Farmers' Co-operative estimate the da In ago to their store at £300." Oates Bros.' placo suffered damage to the extent of £2OO, and considerable damage was done at Waitemata. Fifty to sixty chimneys fell, the hotel tanks burst, and bottles were scattered about the iloor. On the hillside there appear to be several gaps. Hm : li,nan's house is untenable, and Hlhllliv's illillllli'V f;lli:r tlilWII thlOUgtl I!n I'i'ilii:;' hi' a lii'iipii.M!!, narrowly miss-

in.:; (lie sleeping occupants. Tiie residents estimate that the shake la-(iml ihrce i!iiiiut.e>,. W.AI.ROA, October 7. Tiirrr sif'.i'lv rtUtllilliake 'al (i.lii, when iin l i.vu-vhp.'lt was Mopped. Al'( KI.AXD, October 7. . '| h- iv v.r>c rjirtii 'tremors here nt li. 17 I In--- limniing. tiifSliORNK, October 7. Tt.ldin.an! l'-:.y reports that further lini'iiis lui'-e n: ol all day. Two Si runj! shucks \vn>;- felt r,t imi'i: and hi l' In the. Farmers' Cooperative -tore there was three l'cet.of merchandise on the first lloov, which had fallen from the shelves. Bricks from tin- I'hmiiii-j* fell tinouj;!i the oeiliii;; of the oili'-e. The manager's house is unt••liable. A lri« cut in the ground opened up between thc...Farmcn;' Co-op. ;lore and iiuniett's boarding hunse, for a distance of- . • TAUivANGA, Oct. 7. The earthquake : sho\'k ivhii.h occurred at Whakatanc at (3,' Jo this morning, caused the concrete bridge at the town end lo crack, Various chimneys were cracked al;-u

Much damage was done at Cape Runaway and Teteko where the shake wa>: the heaviest yd. experienced, fi'[SEOIINJ! f Qcl. 7.

The earthquake at (Ma Uiis morning was the severest felt in Ciisborne for 18 years, lint it was of a> steady durntlcri, and beyond slopping I lie I own clock, and sncli minor accidents, caused h'.lle damage. In the crtiintry districts, however, the damage was very, sever. l . At Tokomarn liiiv-tlio local bricklayer has already received.orders to build no less than i"> liew chimneys to replace tliow which fell down during the tpiak.j, and several- business -'premises .are liadly damaged, notably the/ FarmoiN 1 Cooperallve"•store, Where it will tfu» £7OO to again make things shipshape. In .1. 1). Kelly and Company's building the whole of t.lio • windows wore torn out. Mate glass windows'were smashed all over tlin township, and alarming fissures appeared in the road, while there were at least two huge landslides which brought' down thousands of tons of earth. It is the same in all the country districts, 1 hotel bars sufferings,heavily with broken' bottles, the contents'of the shelves being thrown on to the lloovs.,

So far no to of life is reported, but it is feared that a man named 0. A. T Jones, oi 1 "Percy" Jones, was engulfed in a landslide at 'Capo Runaway.

As yet'no reliable news has been re-, ceived from the Bay of Plenty coast, and Ih'o Opotiki district. Tlio quake lastedfroin two t(\' four minutes, according to the locality? and its direction was north-east to" 'south-west. There other"smaller shakes up the coast throughout tlie'dny.