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Show Terrible Volcanic Eruption. The Times of India says that a Bata-via Bata-via paper gives particulars of the dreadfdl calamity whicb occurred a few nv"ntb- aco at laculanding Isiaod.oric of the Sangir proup. It appear" tli at on the ird of March lat an otitbrrak took place from the volcano ftuwanf, i on thai inland, which was accDmpanied I by a seaquake; the sea thereupon rose j to a gTeit hicht. and a gigantic wave, j about forty Du:ch yards high, sudien- ly rushed oa the island, sweeping j away beiore it human beings, cattle, houses ar.d everything eie. I our j hundred and sixteen i another account i says thrye hundred) persons perished, j amoogst whom was the Rajah of the; I island, and only three houses were left ! standing. Almost all tho survivors fled to the bush, where they still were by last accounts. The bodies of the dead were lying abut, making tho air foul, from want of bands to bury them. On the 14:h of March the volcano cast out Amies and lava, which destroved most of the cultivated land. The wretchedncs? and distress of the surviving sur-viving population is said to he great, and t lie ne?d of help pressing. The Sangir Islands lie lo the north of Mcn-dao. |