A DISASTROUS EARTH QUAKE.
DESTRUCTION OF A CITY. ■ United Press Awdoiatido— By Electria . Telegraipii-rOopyrigHt. , ; ; (Received- Feb. 17, 9.44 a.m.) ;^I ; LONDON, Feb. 16. The earthquakes destroyed Shamajfca, -it . town in Transcaucasia. Two honied bodies have^ already been dug from me ruins and hundreds more people perished. Twentyfive thousand inhabitants > are without food and shelter. The shocks jionstantiy, .recur. ; 1 (Sbamaka is a town hv Transcaucasia, - : .•seventy miles west of ' Bakoo. .Its former : site wis about fifteen miles north-east of ,;. > the; present one. The. old town, was ran»d- "rir ' £a 1737 by Nadir Shah, but the new city is place, celebrated for its silks. '■)!... Shamaka has a population of about 25,000.)
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7330, 17 February 1902, Page 2
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