VOLCANIC ERUPTION.
DISASTER IN JAPAN. VILLAGES ENGULFED. Press Association- Electrjc Telegraph-Copyright, (Received Thursday, 8.5’5 a.m.) TOKIO, Wednesday. Eye-witneses states that the third eruption was -the worst, as the lava freed the mountain Jake, which swept a. thirty-foot wall of water, down the mountain-side, wrecking farms, while the lava poured down from the two craters, engulfing villages and the railway. Warned by the preliminary rumblings many escaped before.the eruption flood. As the calamity occurred during the daytime, many farmers working in the fields were saved, but lost their whole families in the villages and became demented by the loss. A-train from Asahigawa, warned by the rumblings; turned ‘ back, escaping the flowing larii.- 3 - ' c Relief corps rushed tb'.fhe - scent?/ but-the-work' was severely’ hainjfered' by the flood I ‘rind lafav''’covering Hherailway tracks, which priWffiitcd therelief train Arifiying. 1 The volcano is now quiescent, but voluminous clouds of smoke are issuing from the crater.—Reuter.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 27 May 1926, Page 5
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