Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-11-17
THE JAVA HORRORS.
scenes Following the Great Volcani
 Eruptions.


 A correspondent seuds The London Standard the following extract from letter from Serang, dated 3Oth August; "At Batavia you wIil scarcely be able to form any correct idea of the condition of things. The mud rain penetrated everything. With the exception of m two bedrooms and the inner veranGah 1t has reached every nook and corner or the house. Chairs, tables. sofas, books, and papers, all are embedded m ee- ment- like crust of sD inch thick. Since Tuesday morning the ashes have blown up alike from trees and ields, and no coOlies can be got to clear up the mess. After we got over the first fright, the public were once more made the dupes of another panic. Some persons intent on robbery spread the report that the sea was approaching Ssraug. This Oceas- toned a general stampede. If people had only kept quiet, II would soon have been proved that the whole thing was only a false alarm. We endeavored to pacify the native villagers, great nun Der of whom had ded, leaving every thing behind. Of course, the thieves then had 1t all their own wsy, and pii- fere d right and left as they chose. The fact that on the following day many were still hunting for lost children, proved how great the confusion had been. Everything here Is imbedded m a thick layer of ashes. The people have only just resumed their daIly Occupa tions today, and grass for the cattle ls only just agaIn beginning to be obtaln- able. At Karang AntOe, whatever was not brick-buiit has disappeared, DO traces having been left. In one spot, fOrty-hve bodies were found. Two native villages containing about eighty inhabitants have been swept away All this, however, is as nothing compared to the misery at Auier aud 1jeringin. There the sen was driven up with such tremendous roaring sound. and SO suddenly y, that all attempts at saving life were fruItless, and The hOuses with their inmates were swept away hke cardboard. Deprived of everything, wounded, some with broken limbs, naked, etc, the peer ln- hHbitRnts that were spared fled Co the higher grounds towards IlIliegOu. There they dld mt meet with the least help or sympathy from the native population. Even water was denied these poor people. though they begged ] for 1t for their dying children. Of food 1 was naturally no question. The poor l refugees were driven from ono village to ] another, and houses closed against | them, and everywhere they were met l with tbe jeer, This Is the visitation for | what you are doIng tO the Acheenese.' l The week ending to-day Is undoubtedly | the most memorable and most awful in | the annals of West Java and South Su I matra krakatOa has completely changei ! its outward form. Several islands have | entirely disappeared, the center of krs- yatua itself, first of all, while others have been heave1 up from the deep. 1 others again all split up. The whole ,1ast line on the right and left has been SO fearfuily lashed by the surgiug Seq water hat all small towns and villages with their inhabitants have been swept away. Aujer no longer exists, being - inverted into a huge mud pool At Tieringln, in West Bantam alone, up- wards of ten thnusard lives were lost"