THE DESTROYER.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 534, 15 June 1909, Page 7

THE DESTROYER.

VICTIMS OF EARTHQUAKE IN FRANCE. MANY DEAD. HOUSES COLLAPSE.—PEOPLE BUBIED '' IN RUINS. ■ (57 ratEOEATH— rUESS ASSOCIATION—COPTMOIIT.) Paris, Judo 13. Tho seismic wave- in France lasted from 9.15 to 9.40 at night. There wero four shocks pf earthquako in tho Riviera. Luckily they occurred just bofore the usual hour of bedtime, otherwise, thoro would havo been hundreds of victims. Of those who were killed, most of them met their death while sleeping. Fifteen persons wero killed at Larobese, fifteen miles north-west of Aix, and the village of lltiques was entirely, destroyed. Twenty bodies have been; found in the village. Several deaths from the earthquako are reported to have occurred at St. Cannat, twelvo miles north of Aix, where many are still buried in tho ruins. > Every house in sane streets is destroyed. The damage is estimated at over a millio.fi francs. Many people in Marseilles, remained all night: in : fishing boats. : Twenty thousand persons gathered on tho quays. Troop 3 are assisting in rescue work. , [Tho name Riviera is applied to the narrow i jtrip of coast-land bordering the Gulf of Genoa, strictly from Nice to Spezzia, but geni crally understood to include the wholo coast 1 of the dep. of tho Alpes Jfaritimes, and the Italian coast as far as Leghorn. West of Genoa 'it is called tho Riviera di Ponento or western .coast, and beyond Genoa the Riviera di Lo.vanto, or eastern coast. From Hycres to Genoa is 203 miles; from Genoa to Leghorn, 112.. Sheltered on. the north by mountains. the district enjoys an exceptionally favoured climate, no other rejrion north of Palermo and Valencia being so mild in winter. The western section is' the mildest and most frequented. It abounds in the most striking and beautiful sconery, and is planted with numerous. health and fashion Monaco,' Mcntone, Yentimiglia. San Remo, Bordignera, etc.; and west of Nice ' are Hyeres,' Frejus, -. Cannes, Grasse, Antibes. i The famons Cornicno Road, widened by Napoleon 1., leads along the coast from', Nice to Genoa, and commands magnificent views.] WHOLE FAMILIES LOST. PREDICTIONS VERIFIED—AND MORE ' \ TO COME! WATER IN THE WELLS TEPID.' (Reo. June 14, 10.10 p.m.) Paris, June 14.. ■ Tho line of great destruction was northeast from Aix to the Rivor' Durance. ' The shocks: began with a sound like a roll of thunder amid a tempest of wind. Tho more solidly-constructed buildings in the town of Aix resisted, but .there was great destruction in littlo hamlets, and on farms, and in some cases wholo families wero killed. Quantities of food and tents havo been sent to the devastated districts. The shock was intense all along the French Mediterranean shore. Slighter shocks were felt from Montpcllier to Grenoble, and from Porpignau to Avignon. Some shocks were felt in the. Italian Riviera, on both sides of Mont Blanc, and in Spain and Portugal.

[Takin? Marseilles as a centre, and, measuring by air-line, Perpignari, "down' towards the Pyrenoos, it 135 miles south-west; Montpellier is nbout SO railes'-wosfr'of-Marseilles;'Avignon—on the left 'bank of the Rhono, jnst above its junction with .the Durance—is 55 miles northwest ; while Grenoble is a greater distance north of Marseilles than Perpienan is south-west of it, viz., about 110 miles. So nearly all southern Frnnce, and portions of northern'ltaly and the Iberian Peninsula, and the Gulf of Lyons, h'avo been'involved.]. N There was a further' shock at 6 o'clock yesterday morning. The water in the wells jn several places remained tepid for hours. M. Henri Doparville, a well-known savant, in an interview that was pnblished on June 6, mentioned Juno 12 and 13 asNiritical dates with regard to He predicts further shocks on June 19 and 20.