TERRIBLE TOLL OF QUAKE
HUNDREDS DEAD IN BURMA HRES AND FLOODS FOLLOW PEG PLE PAN IC-ST RICKEN By Telegraph— Press Assn. —Copyright. Delhi, May 6. 'Latest reports from Rangoon estimate ill© dead as the result of the Pegu (Burma), earthquake at 500 to ”00. The town experienced three shocks. . Terrible scenes were witnessed in the (Sanphlaing Seite- area, two miles of which were destroyed by fire, hundreds ihejJig crushed or burnt to death. Fifty perished at a Myoebite cinema, following the first shock the town was plunged into darkness. A fire broke <out in the.bazaar area, and the wooden buildings were quickly \ blazing. The terrified inhabitants fled and encountered water four feet deep from broken .mains.' They were later overwhelmed by a tidal wave from the river.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1930, Page 11
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