Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-04-12
THOUSANDS Die IN
indian EARTHQUAKE
TOWN WITH POPULATION OF
10000 REPORTED ALMOST
ENTIRELY DESTROYED.
DETAILS OF AWFUL "
DISASTER ARE MEAGER
Nearly sec Soldiers Entombed with
Little Hope Of Recovery at Dharm-
sala-Palampur, with 5000 Peo-
pie, Leveled to Ground.

London, April 8.-Fifty thousand
lives lost in one district alone and
many thousands in other portions of the
Punjab is the awful result Of the recent
earthquake in India. Towns have been
razed, ancient and historic buildings
made mass of wreckage. and popu]a-
ton OF hundreds of thousands offer
up prayers against repetition OF the
shocks. Amid all this horror men.
women and children are starving, and
unprotected from the weather huddle
on the bleak and desolate hillsides.
fearing death at any moment from an
| other earth convulsion
Only the most meager details have
been received here. but they are enough
TO show that it is almost impossible to
conceive of the magnitude of the disas-
ter. The whole kangra valley in the
Jullinder section of the Punjab has been
devastated. The town of Kangra, in the
| same district. thriving city with
population of $4,000. is reported wiped
out, scarcely soul escaping.
| Disaster Almost Beyond Belief.
| Fragmentary reports Of the dreadful
catastrophe have reached Lahore and
thence sent here. Piecing these reports
together it is impossible not to reach
the conclusion that the greatest Gisas-
ter of modern times. exceeding the nor
ror of Mount Pelees eruption, has be-
fallen India.
The first dispatches from India gave
no indication of the destruction
wrought and it was believed that a
slight shock had done some little dam
age in the hill country around Simla-
Next came word of damage at the hill
station of Dharmsala. where white and
! native troops are Quartered. 1t now de-
velops that hundreds were buried alive.
A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
company says 470 members of the
Seventh Gurkha regiment were en-
rescue. Six additional deaths of whites
have been reported.
Whole Town Leveled
The whole town of Palampur, contain
ing about 5000 inhabitants. has been
leveled to the ground and not even
hut is left standing. Palampur is Brit
ish agency controlling II native states
in the northeastern part Of the province
of Guzera1. The population is about
10000. 1t is the capital of a state OF
the same name. having about 225. 600
inhabitants.
Officials of the foreign Office are ex-
tremely reticent in regard to the scope
of the disaster but it is doubtful if they
have other additional facts beyond
those conveyed in the press dispatches
Relief Steps T ken.
News come from Simla. the summer
capital and where Viceroy and Lady
Curzon are now staying and which sus-
tanned some slight damage from the
earthquake. that the viceroy. aided by
Lady Curzon, has begun active steps 10
relieve so far as possible the desri1u-
ton and suffering.
! Communication by road and railway
is practically cut off and the supplies at
Slmla are all that can De had for some
time. These are inadequate but are be-
ing distributed to the best possible ad-
vantage. Unless stores arrive FROM
|
death roll of the earthquake will be
augmented by thousands claimed by
famine. fever and cold
Three Missionaries Killed.
! telegram received by the Chur1u
Missionary society reports that three of
the society's representatives at Kanray
Rev. H. F. Rowland. Mrs. Daueble and
I T 1-sl
of the mission house during the recent
earthquake. All the other missionaries
in Punjab are believed to be safe. Miss
Lorbeer was member of the Berlin La
dies Missionary society and was lent
to the church missionary society for
| work in India
| Sent to Prison.
Minneapolis. Mimi. April s.-Alex-
| nd