EUROPEANS KILLED.
India Escaped the Centre of Disturbance. British Official Wireless. (Received Januarv 16, 12.15 p.m.) RUGBY, January 15. In Calcutta no one was seriously injured. At Jamalpur, in Bengal, the station buildings collapsed, killing the wife and children of the European manager of the railway workshops and the wife of the local medical officer. Several buildings also collapsed at Benares and Lucknow”, and at towns in the United Provinces. The tremors were only slightly felt in Bombay. It is believed that India escaped the centre of the disturbance, which was recorded on seismographs in Britain as one of exceptional severity.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20205, 16 January 1934, Page 1
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