New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-18

thing is visible the village Of Lonhor but heap OF ruins
Saru terribly shattered while detached pieces Of rock
lay everywhere scattered around There were deaths
however 10 lament and only some persons Were signify
bruised or wounded
But the misfortune did not stop here. About eight
o'clock disturbance Of the sea Zee 0eVngl occurred
which filled every heart with fear and dsmay aud caused
every to fly TO the highest ground In quick succession
the bay filled and empted and at times appeared to be
The ship Atat Rachman laden with rice lying in the
roads twice touched the ground aiter-ke H. VI brig DE
liaaiwhch had anchored the day prevous-1ayng been
driven backwards and forwards NUMBER "t tunes Dut
this quake increased in frightfu manner and thrice
overwhelmed Great Banda and Neira with the largest roll
the last place they reached several eet hiS IN the
houses, and burst the doors open these huge waves
formed in the Zonnega and in the channel OF Lonthoir
and 50 high that they beat over Fort Nassau and
reached the foot Of the hill on which Fort jelsca i built
carrying everything with them in their rehuX bu, AT the
same time leaving behind quantity of fishes. The
prahus in the roads driven amongst and against each
other and carried To and fro from the shore Ihy Oun
dered drove in the Xonnega where they struck on the
shore only few could themselves by Hight These
prahus belonged to the and Key Islands and Cerdn
and part of their finding themselves on shore,
sought shelter in of the sheds on the old pier but they
could not withstand the force of the rollers and in mo
ment they of their place of shelter and driven
Stewards there miserably perish. 1t is estimated that
sixty men lost their lives in this way.
Miserable the condition OF the inhabitants, who saw
the waves twenty six feet high rolling so rresstbly
towards Them threatening to engult them the ground
continually rocking under their feet the atmosphere
cch0ing with loud reports like cannon shots ilnS their
state of things lasted not merely for five mnutes-an
hour-a day-but for successive days for these dghtfu
natural phenomena only ceased on the 2?t December
while all that time scarcely hour passed that the ground
did not heave and shake in the heaviest manner and
then lighter but always that dstrUst and fear remlued
murned in the hearts of the inhabitants who partly
wholly ruined without habations. shelterng in light BAN
boo hu look forward 10 the glOOmest future, and will
perhaps be able the blow which they have
received
During these Garth and qualcs-which last, however
did not extend beyond the north side of Nera and to tn"
south side of Great BandaS-Gunong Ap was quiescen,
and no alteration observed in the smoke proceeding
from il.
The accounts from the islands Ros, nCcn and Al were
even more tragca and the destruction there less great.
The spice parks kele and Noorwes"n ON Great Banda me
hast which remained standing also at length iril H. ana at
pr, sent there not than two h1blbc houses IN
Ncir. The Rc-dcncy House has suffered much Rock
and earth slips from the Papenberg occurred there tor
length at time.
Tie same disastrous accounts had been received from
Cera An and seaquake had also occurred there on
the Goth November and caused great damage The helyy
rollers OF ne sea had swept away the houses on me beach
and thrown than hundred prahs shore of which
number had been destroyed while many persons fell We
TINS to this terrible commoOn Of nature
From Amboyna learn that the morning of the Doth
November about half past = the earthquake was felt in
direction from y. L. to w W with duration of about
five minutes This preceded on the 18th by some
Slight shocks The disturbance of the sea- also took place,
but not to such destructive and heavy extent a at BANDIT
although the same day. Very little damage was caused
The accounts from the islands AmbOyna not IA
vOrabc Nearly all experienced the extraordinary cOnmo
ton both of sea and land The houses Saparua and
many native boats seriously injured and very heavy
loss has been caused.
At Tcnate. well rs Bachan. two heavy shocks of
earthquake felt the 26th November at in the
morning and the last place they repeated Tor
DAYS aerwrd but without doing any damage at either
place. The weather generally calm and although the
mountain of Tcmatc did not give out more smoke than
usual, suberrncan noise heard in it. but very
loud.
The earthquake which occurred al Batavia and Butcn
zorg on the n of the goth December was also ct IN tine
RESIDENCES OF krawag, Magcmg, Bantam Bmyumaas Ia
gal and Pckaongan, and in the Lampopg districts. Chole
had broken out at Padang and number OF persons mad
,liDd