Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-08
WHOLE TOW Ms RAZED
kansra and PaIampur, According ID
Reports Received at Lahore, Have
Been Totally Destroyed--Lady Cur.
zon Narrowly Escapes Death al
simIa. i

Lahore, April 7.-One hundred forty
men Of the Gurkhe regiments were
buried alive as the result of the earth
quake at Dharmsala, according to the
latest information from that place. It
was impossible to rescue the entombed
men. The greatest difficulty is expert
enced In procuring news from Dharm-
sala. Telegraph facilities are most
scanty.
Kangra volley Is believed to have
been devastated and 1t is reported that
the town of Kangra was reduced to
ruins with great loss Of life.
Town Of PaIampur Destroyed.
A private telegram received here
says the whole town Of Palampur, con-
tanning about 5000 inhabitants, has
been levelled to the ground by the
earthquake. Not single building is
left standing.
Later News From DharmsaIa.
Calcutta, India, April Z. - According
to reports received here, 140 soldiers
mostly Gurkhas, were killed at the
Dharmsala cantonment. Seventy-ona
Gurkhas are missing. Sixteen Euro
peans. including seven children ara
reported to have lost their lives al
Dharmsak.
In the urkhascantonment at Dharm.
sala, twenty-nine women and chik
dren and twenty-one camp followers
were killed and 1856 Gurkhas were in.
1ured.
Lady Curzon Near Death,
Simla, India, April THE life OF
Lady Curzon, wife of the viceroy, was
| hxy a ~ ~
violent earthquake which caused death
and destruction near Simla damaged
the vice regal lodge and caused a Sec
ton Of a great chimney top, weighing
ton, to crash through the roof into
the room directly above that in which
Lady Curzon was seated
Lady Curzon, who was formerly Miss
Mary Letter, Of Chicago, was reading
when the heavy quake rocked the
building from one end to the other.
Almost simultaneously the end chin.
ney Of the lodge toppled over with the
vibrations and a ton of rock and NOR
tar fell inward through the roof crush
ing the ceiling Of the room above the
one in which Lady Curzon was seated.
The heavy oaken floor timbers held
the greater mass of debris in check,
however, and saved Lady Curzon's
life. A few pieces Of the wreckage
fell near her.
i Lady Curzon was overcome with
fright and was unable to move from
the danger zone until the worst was
over. Others in the lodge who had
narrow escapes rushed to her assist
! ance.
J, Aid From Government.
The same earthquake brought Ieath
in its train in the town of Dharmsala,
hill station ninety-five miles to the
north Of Simla, where many of the In.
habitants have been killed.
The government has dispatched
from Lahore, tents, food, blankets and
doctors for the sufferers of Dharmsala,
who are homeless and facing starva-
ton. Many families were kille, out
right in their homes and nearly every
building is wrecked.
The public Offices here were also
badly damaged.
: Damage at kasuIuIl.
The earthquake was severely felt at
Kasulull, though no lives we're lost.
The Pasteur institute escaped damage.
: The second shock caused such q
panic in Simla that the residents
rushed from their homes in fright and
huddled together praying inthe streets.
Almost the entire population slept all
night in the open air, fearing possible
! destruction should another quake
: strike their homes
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