FIFTY YEARS AGO
JAPANESE VOLCANO ERUPTS News of a disastrous volcanic eruption in an island off the coast of apa 50 years ago was contained in a ca gram from Thursday Island, published in the New Zealand Herald of Augu 23, 1888. Following is an extract from Ti s Y>,n .00 square mile's in extent, aas the of the visitation. The shock wns . . violent and almost paralysed habitants, who numbered about - uu " Tlie town was virtually split in two 0 the upheaval, and a large nuni , terror-stricken inhabitants werei s lowed up in the chasm caused . eruption. . , j.>, s "Many of the people rushed tote foot of the mountain and wer V r lv by falling lava and b ? , ! lde 1 rs WP V e deall the houses on the island . , stroved and most of the inhabitants. killed."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23123, 23 August 1938, Page 6
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138FIFTY YEARS AGO New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23123, 23 August 1938, Page 6
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