SCENES OF TERROR
PEOPLE FLEE FROM HOMES COAST FALLING INTO SEA . PORT AU PRINCE, (Rec.- 10 p.m) Aug. 9. Many walls in the Dominican Republic which withstood the previous shocks crumbled during to-day’s quake, which lasted for 40 seconds. Panicky people jumped from balconies into the streets, and others were injured by careering cars. The fearful residents to-night refused to sleep in their homes, and stretched out in parks and streets. Many cliffs along the north coast are breaking down and sliding into the sea.
A message from New York says that the Fordham University seismograph recorded a new earthquake in the Caribbean Sea almost as bad as last Sunday’s. ■ The Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Chicago seismographs all recorded very strong shocks. Dominican residents telephoned New York that a new intense earthquake was hitting the Caribbean area, and that the inhabitants of San Pedro and Macoris were fleeing terror-stricken into the hills.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26227, 10 August 1946, Page 7
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