The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-08
BURIED ALIVE IN EARTHQUAKE
REPORTS OF DISASTER IN INDIA
GROW MORE SERIOUS.
Towns OF RanEFa, PaiampOOr and Salkot
Said TO he in Uuins-Men OF GuTkha
Regiments KnIed-Three Missionaries
Dead-Extensive Districts stiiI cut an.

ReEtmenta Kmed-Three Missionaries
Dead-Extensive Districts Stil Cut on.
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LAHORE. April THE Kanpa Valley,
distr let north Of this city having an area
ofover 500 square miles and q population OF
10000 peopIe, IL believed to have been
devastated by the earthquake, Ths town
Of RanaTa itssH, which has a population OF
over 10000, il reported to have bsen reduced
to ruins. The loss OF life must be enormous,
but no authentic details are ootainable
as the teleRra oh stations have been wrecked.
-Four hundred men Of the Seventh Gurkha
Regiment and twenty men Of the second
and fifty men Of tho first battalion OF the
First Gurkhas we're buried alive, and many
we're killed.
The mortality among the Ghurka troops
il ascribed to their occupying new stone
barracks, which, despite it's massiveness,
was thrown up from the ground two feet
by the movement Of the earth, causing
its total collapse, There we're many women,
children and camp followers in tho building
and they are among the victims.
The survivors seemed TO be paralyzed
by the suddenness and awfulness Of the
catastrophe, and for some time they made no
attempt to rescue tn ose buried under the
debris. Subsequently, when the masses Of
masonry were removed after great efforts.
more than two hundred persons we're
extricated. Many Of these we're terribly
crushed. and It Is feared they will not re-
cover.
Nine more Europeans are 10 be added
TO the death roll at DharmsalA. Some OF
the native residents Of that town have ar
rived here. Their nerves are completely
unstrlng by the experience through which
they have passed, and the stories they tell
are incoherent.
Only fragments Of information can be
obtained from them after much questioning
One asserts that only one house in the
town was left standing. Another declares
that he saw the earth yawn and swallow
two houses. The shock was so sudden that
the occupants had no time to leave their
houses. Some persisted on the thresholds
as they were attempting to run from their
homes.
The movement Of the earth was accom-
panied by a roaring sound that resembled
thunder among mountains. Unofficial re-
ports state that the number Of deaths in
the area affected by the earthquake exceeds
two thousand.
A private telegram reports that the
town Of Paampoor, which had over 10000
Inhabitants, was completely leveneI 70
the ground. Not single building was left
standing
Not single house escaped damage in
the town of SiAlkot.
A convent and several schools were dam
aged in Mussoorie, and scarcely a single
building there is intact.
Three Church Missionary Society repre-
sentatives were buried in the fall Of the
mission house at KAngrs. This report
comes nom private sources, but is unofici-
ally confirmed.
CALCUTTA, April THE earthquake had
It's origin in the western Himalaya Noun
tains The centre Of distlub ance was about
Dharmsala. Apparently there was no wide
extension Of it in the direction of Assamor
Aghanistan, but information from the west
is very imperfect.
LONDON, April liking Edward and the
Prince Of Wales have telegraphed 70 Lord
Curzon. viceroy Of India, expressing their
earnest sympathies with the earthquake
sufferers. The Kings despatch concludes
with the statement that he has confidence
that all possible relief will be promptly
afforded.
The Prince Of Wales says he personally
sympathizes with Lord Curzon in his anxiety
for Lady Curzon.
The Government has not yet received
any details Of the earthquake in India.
This is attributed to the destruction Of the
telegraph lines in the sTC o.ed area, Press
dispatches from Simla and Calcutta give
the local official reports, which confirm the
seriousness Of the disaster, but place the
fatalities at a less number than previously
reported.
As officially recorded at Simla, the deaths
among the Gurkhas number less than 1850
including women and children. Doc
tors. nurses, surgical appliances and pro-
visions are being sent "a hastily as possible
10 the places that suffered from the shock,
but the damage done to the roads, bridges
and railways is seriously hindering the
work of sucOor