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DISASTER IN JAVA.

MOUNTAIN LAKE DEVASTATES

THE COUNTRY

GOO LIVES LOST.

(United Press Association.—Copyright.] SYDNEY, October 5.

News received from Singapore gives details of a disaster in East Java, owing to tho crater of a volcano giving way when full of water.

Torrents of water then rushed down the mountain side, carrying enormous quantities of sand and mud.

Tho rivers taking their rise on the mountain overflowed their banks and swept everything before them, 600 lives being lost.

At one village GO persons were buried alh re beneath mud and sand. T/fc will take at least a year to repair the railway line, and famine is feared owing to the destruction of the grain stocks.

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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12337, 6 October 1909, Page 7

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DISASTER IN JAVA. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12337, 6 October 1909, Page 7

DISASTER IN JAVA. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12337, 6 October 1909, Page 7

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