The Laramie Republican

Earth Disturbances in Arctic Regions Cause Twenty-one Deaths
(By Associated Press.)

Moscow, April 24.-Tremendous earth and sea disturbances have taken place in the Arctic and may be still continuing, according to Chita dispatches giving the details of the earthquake recently reported at Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka, which carried several buildings into the sea.

The total casualties are unknown, but the loss of twenty-one lives has already been definitely established.

When the last word was received from Petropavlovsk on April 15, the earthquakes were continuing every six minutes on an average in that region. Advices stated that the radio station had been destroyed and news of the occurrences trickling in slowly. The sparse population is homeless and famine-stricken, all the warehouses with their provisions having been swept into the ocean. According to one dispatch, up to April 13, there had been a total of 195 slight earthquakes, accompanied by rumblings of the ground. On the 13th new shocks of much greater force were felt, accompanied by a tidal wave which swept across the ice-covered seas, causing masses of water and ice to crash against the coast, crushing business buildings and houses and then receding seaward, dragging with it the debris.