THREE DAYS OF TERROR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16979, 17 June 1929, Page 10

THREE DAYS OF TERROR

SEQUEL TO EARTHQUAKE

FAMINE AND LOCUST PLAGUE TFJIPPAN (Persia), May (i. Two thousand dead were reported to-day in unofficial telegraphic advices of three.days' continuing earthquakes from Ihe Khorassan district of NortliKiist I'ers.ia. The telegrams said many villages laterally have been destroyed, with "mi buildings demolished in the cities of Chirwan and Dujuurd, near the Turkestan border. The tremors were said to have caused "three days terror." At the town of Bujnurd, 400 stores and more than 400 residences were destroyed, i It is impossible to estimate tiie 'number of bodies buried beneath the debris. Twenty villages in the same district were entirely destroyed from the town of Shirwan, and all the livestock there is killed. Other nearby villages have suffered severely, but thelitis mi detailed reports, though i'l is reported Unit at one place the giotiml is broken to a width of three yards and that the cleft so made extends for IS miles. A. second calamity hit the. country with the arrival of n swarm of locusts. There are millions of the insects covering all of Eastern Persia, in such incredible numbers that 'he sky is darkened. In the province of Kerman trees as well as smaller plants have been attacked, the pistachio nut trees particularly; ,