THE EARTHQUAKES IN ITALY AND FRANCE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1545, 29 April 1887, Page 3

THE EARTHQUAKES IN ITALY AND FRANCE.

(FROM OUR I'A.KIS COBRESrONDENT.) Paris, February 28. An appalling calanii'y,. o? t..u full extant of which it is even now impossible to form an approximate eatiniate, has viaited the ehorca of U»e> Kiviera and olher parts of the Me-'ilarranean. This disaster has caused a general raah from Nice and the winter reports to Pads The earliest comers preßeutod a oingular appearance, fo 11 th?y had been tho first to tak-3 alarm and had atartod almost with tho clothes they Btood m. The first aevore shocks of earthquake were fait at Nica at six o'clock In the morning; Everybody seemed bewildered, and moat of the English and Americans were hastily arranging for departure. A good many or the people wore afr&id to go iuto their houses again. Pome oi them made their way to the mountains and others to the seashore, here all tho boats were occupied by fugitives. The injuries that hare been received seem to have been principally canned by tha fall of f-tonework into the street Hai tho catastrophe ocottrred a few hours earlier, when the Carnival was at its height, there would have certainly been a panic among the orowd and a wholesale lohb of life. In Italy, according to official adviceß, the localities that have suffered most by the earthquake are : — Bajsrdo, 300 dead and wounded, Diano Marino, 250 do ; Barrano, 60 dead and 36 wounded ; Diano Oaretello, 30 dead and some wounded j Oaratelkro, 30" dead and some wounded. All tha localities mentioned are inLlguria. The Prinoe of Wales, who was at Nice or the Carnival, returned to Cannes at the close of the festivities. H. R. H, and hia eon, Prince George, are now m the French capital. No new casualty has occurred. Several slight shocks have been felt daring the het days, but they wore scarcely peroeptable. Nice is recovering bat Men tone is m ruins; A large proportion of the population In the former city is atill camping out. during the night. As to Italy the latest intelligence of the disaster ia heartrending. At Genoa the panic is general. In Diana Arino 200 people have been killed. At Oantalupo not a single house la Btanding. The Mayor of Bagard telegraphs to San Remo ; — " The parish church is a heap of ruins, under <rhioh numbers of people are buried. Houses have fallen m, and the whole population is m a state of terror." At Buaaano 400 people are said to have been killed. The eeismographio Instruments at Monnt Vemiries gave no indications of the renent earthquakes. Marseilles is profiting by the fearful disaster on the Riviera. All the hotels are full and tiavellers are refruaed. Reception rooms and even garden houses are to bo turned iuto dormitories. During two days eight thousaud persona passed through or arrived at Marseilles from the Rlvkra.