The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-09-01

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y, IN the neighborhood OF two hundred lives
At least 800 people were drowned IN the
t. Anjler.
It The island of Serang, just off the coast
- was completely inundated, and not a soul
4 remains on it to tell the tale of the disas
ter.
At Cherribon the loss of life and proper.
ty by The falling OF the rocks and the flow
@ Of lava must have been enormous.
The above refers to the shocks and erup.
e tions up to about Sunday noon, when they
} were supposed to have reached their
|. height; but late in the afternoon and even.
, ing the disturbances were renewed with
increased violence, until the island seemed
to be completely buried in fire and sui
phurous ashes. The account continues:
About midnight the most irighttul scene
: OF ali took place. Suddenly an enormous
luminous cloud formed over the Kandang
range OF mountains which skirt the south.
east coast of this island. During this time
the eruptions increased and streams of
lava poured necessarily down the sides of
the mountains into the valleys, sweeping
u
stream of lava would enter an arm of the
sea or come in contact with the water OF a
river. Then the incaDdesccnt lava would
suddenly produce boiling heat and rapid
IMPORTATION, but the superficial consollda.
ton that almost instantly ensued would
prevent any further contact with the water.
The assures that opened in this thin crust
as 1t sollditied on the stream of lava emit.
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the air and making tremendous seething
sound, as If a thousand locomotives were
simultaneously letting of steam.
| One OF the most singular freaks of the
eruption was the carrying in the midst of
the molten lava of bed of solid ice of
enormous size, which had been emitted
from one of the Craters. 1t was carried
along by the current and landed on the ex
tremity of Point St. Nicholas, at the
northeast corner of the island. This bed
of ice was surrounded by thick envelope
OF sand and scOrlr, which are non-conduc
tors OF heat 1t Is supposed this ice had
formed the crust of some subterranean
lake. About2 o'clock Monday morning
the great cloud suddenly broke into small |
same time the frightful rumblings were
over the southeast corner of the island |
ceased to ascend, while the craters in the |
other parts of Java seemed TO open their
fiery throats still wider, to let out the
greatest quantity of lava rocks, pumlce,
and ashes yet vomlted forth The Kissing
OF these became so loud as TO be almost
deaiening. The waves rushed up on the
shore to an unprecedented height.
oil fxht Al,
enormous tract of land had disappeared,
extending from Point Capucia on the south
TO Negery Hafsoerang on the north, and
west to Low Point, covering an extent Of
territory about fifty miles square. In this
were situated the villages of Negery and
Negery Babawang. None of the people
inhabiting these places or of the natives
sparsely through the forests and
on the plains escaped death. This section
OF the island was not so densely populated
as the other portions, and the loss of life
was comparatively small, although 1t must
have aggregated fully $4,000 souls.
The debris of the submerged and de-
stroyed buildings was tossed hither and
thlther on the water, the only sign left that
there had once been inhabited land there
The town of Tanerang, within 25 miles of
the City of Batavia, was swept away by t
the lava stream, and fully half the popula
hon, mostly Javanese, numbering about ,
800, persisted.
AT Speelwyk, near Point Salcis, the red I
not rocks set fire to the houses and swept
away all the thckly settled portion of the
own. About ten bazaars, belonging to
were destroyed. The loss of
property is very large, but no lives are
Known to have been lost. Y
The river Jacatra, on the banks of which 8
Batavia is situated, was SO completely 6
damned by the lava Bnd debris that its
curse was changed, and from Franen y
5astlon 1t flowed down through Tigers {
treet and Joined the waters of the river q
Imerades, swelling that stream to such an !;
xtent that it rose high on the Castor bat =
cries. Figelenknig was almost totally d
destroyed, and large number of lives a
we're lost here. Fl
The island of Onius, five miles off the ,
mouth of the Tangerang river and twenty
niles east OF Batavia, was completely in. q
ndated, and the floating dock there was 81
)tally destroyed. Caataye, Chaps and Il
'ronwers Islands, of the portion of Java u
Inch disappeared, are out Of sight and
OF vestlge of them is left Baby and Z
'herbo Islands, off the north coast, lost Z
ne few houses and inhabitants upon them g
In Batavia the loss has been largely in. il
reased since the former reports. The roof
the Governors house was crushed IN by
mass OF mud and three of the retainers .,
ere killed. The town bridge was de- -
royed, the diamond and pearl bastlons
ably damaged, and the Burrau Redoubt Il
as destroyed. d,
A violent shock was felt IN the Island of -,
umalra Monday forenoon, and it was =.
jared that other disturbances might fol al
wv. Midah Island ten miles off the hi
avanese coast, aud half way between the p,
streme points of Java and Sumatra, was
most wholly ingulfeu by the sea. The "
ygrcga.e loss of life must be fully 10000 cl
ut the number of those who per,sed can W
ever, of curse, be accurately known. q,
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