A TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE.
By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. AN ISLAND REPORTED TO HAVE DISAPPEARED. (press association.) Sydney, July 18. The steamer Catterbun, from China, brings news of a terrible earthquake, which is supposed to have occurred at Sanguier Island, in Celebes Sea. A Dutch mail steamer left Sanguier for Timur, in the Malay Archipelago, and the captain reported that shortly after leaving a terrible explosion occurred. The sky was darkened with ashes and smoke and the vessel was covered with ashes. When the atmosphere cleared there was no trace of the island visible. The population is estimated at 12,000. Several sailing vessels were at Sanguier at the time and it is almost certain that they w T ere destroy! d. The shock was felt at Timur.
The Catterbun, while steaming through the Celebes Sea, passed for miles through debris and wreckage of all kinds.
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New Zealand Mail, 21 July 1892, Page 33
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142A TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE. New Zealand Mail, 21 July 1892, Page 33
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