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AMERICAN GUNBOAT. WRECKED AT SAMOA. Press Association —By T<?l. : —Copyright. SYDNEY, July 28- . The steamer Sonoma brings n£j w-n that the American gunboat Princeton struck an uncharted rock at the entrance to l?agopago harbour, Samoa. A piece of rock sticking in the hull enabled the vessel to be beached and the crew escaped. Only the funnel and a mast now are above water. DESTRUCTIVE EARTHQUAKE. A tidal wave following an earthquake practically demolished Bencoolen u Sumatra. Seventeen Chinese and four natives were killed and twenty injured, including &even Europeans. A Batavia message states that an immense earthquake destroyed the telegraph cables. The steamer Kintuck is ashore on a coral reef. All the passengers were saved.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15411, 29 July 1914, Page 3
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