564* cheat earthquake xs java. 
trembling, but on the 17 th, at 6 o’clock, the shocks began again with 
renewed force, and between that hour and 10 in the forenoon nine 
shocks had taken place, of which one lasted 31 seconds. 
Some details of the loss follow:—At the capital of Cheribon all 
the Government buildings (with the exception of the store houses) 
and niore than 200 private stone dwellings were severely damaged 
and mostly rendered uninhabitable, in consequence of which no one 
durst remain within doors during the night, and all passed the night 
on the plains in the town, or in the gardens. A Chinese dwelling 
in the city fell down. One person was killed and six others hurt. 
At Palimanang the Commandant’s house and other stone build¬ 
ings in the fort were severely damaged, and some personal injuries in¬ 
flicted,—the wooden dwellings suffering no injury of any consequence. 
At two neighbouring sugar factories great havoc was done, the 
buildings of all sorts being thrown down, and several lives lost. 
At Dana Ratfja , Radja Gala and Pammkirmi many buildings 
were destroyed. 
Almost all the post stations are severely damaged; many stone 
watch-houses along, the roads were thrown down ; and even the mile 
stones along the great road fell over. 
At Iudramayu the first shocks caused severe damage to the assis¬ 
tant resident’s house, the commandant’s dwelling and the fort, and 
the stone houses of the European inhabitants, rendering them unin¬ 
habitable. 40 stone houses belonging to Chinese were partly or 
wholly overturned. At different places the ground was torn open 
from one to two feet in width, and from the openings large quanti¬ 
ties of sand and muddy water boiled up ; by the falling of one of the 
houses a woman was killed, and her two children wounded. 
The Government storehouses both at Cheribon and Indramayu , 
which were of wood, did net suffer. 
At Kanin gait the regency house only suffered a little. The west¬ 
ern part part of the regency Madja Lengka appears to have suffer¬ 
ed very little. 
In the regency of Gain, and in the eastern part of. the regency 
Cheribon, no damage of consequence was done. 
