FIJI EARTHQUAKE.
FURTHER DETAILS. [Pee Press Association.] AUCKLAND, October 18. 1' urther news of the Fiji earthquake received by mail, states that the island of Rabi, owned, by Levers’ Plantations, . . » offered severely on tho same mgnt (October 3) The residents were aw akened by bombs like thunder followed by a wild heaving of the earth Houses swayed alarmingly, furniture turned somersaults and ‘ crockery was smashed to hits. The Indians were panic stricken and, fearing a tidal wave wildly rushed up the lull. A ] ar «ro drier for preparing copra caught fire and disappeared into smoking' debris On examination cracks wore found everywhere. A largo crack at the Indian lines was spouting mud and yellow slime. A number of geysers along the beacli were throwing up mud. Large portions of Mount Dawson, the highest, on the island, have been thrown or blown off. Kochs had been split oi smashed and many great masses a» large as a house had ploughed down from tho hills to the coast Sats, leav» ing lanes of crushed trees and Bushes. )
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12774, 18 October 1919, Page 9
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175FIJI EARTHQUAKE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 12774, 18 October 1919, Page 9
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