Severe Earthquake.
FOLLOWED BY TIDAL WAVE A TOWN DEMOLISHED. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [Uniter Press Association.] (Received 9.35 a.m.) Brisbane, July 28. The Vancloon lias been refloated. The accident was due to a tidal wave following an earthquake, which practically demolished Bencoolen in Sumatra. Seventeen Chinese and four Natives | were killed and twenty injured, including seven Europeans in Bataria. The message states that an immense earthquake destroyed the telegraph and cables and that the steamer Kintuck is ashore on a coal reef but all I the passengers were safe.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 82, 28 July 1914, Page 5
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88Severe Earthquake. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 82, 28 July 1914, Page 5
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