ITALIAN EARTHQUAKE

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 839, 10 June 1910, Page 5

ITALIAN EARTHQUAKE

THE DAMAGE, NOT SWEEPING LIKE MESSINA. Us Telcunph—l'tess Association —CoDyrlsbU Rome, June 8. King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena are in the Aveliino province, where earthquake shocks Imve been. Hie cause of thirty deaths and inucli damage. Queen Helena went to the hospital to seo those injured, and the King visited some. o£ the affected villages. There has been no destruction of a sweeping nature like that which characterised the. Me.-sina disaster. The fallen houses were mostly old and badly built. Most of the houses in Calitri were cracked by tho shocks. Many of them are built on a hillside at the crown of a slope. Twenty-four bodies have been recovered. Seven thousand persona iled., Telegrams state that' the disaster is attributed in the district to St. Jnnuarius, a Christian martyr who was beheaded' under Diocletian, and relics of whom (said to bo his head and some of his blood) aro preserved at Naples. According to the traditional miracle, tho blood is said to became fluid when it is brought near the head; but recently, it did not become liquefied. A great procession is being organised to appease the wrath of St. Jnnuarius. Some of the churches of Naples have been wrecked. . Fanatics attacked several American missionaries who were visiting Calitri, alleging that they were responsible for the disaster. Soldiers rescued them. IN SWITZERLAND. ■ (Rec. June 9, 11.40 p.m.) ■■ . Berne, June 9. There' have been severe earthquake shocks in the: Achsta Valley, but they were only slightly felt in tho Engadirie. The shocks caused many avalanches on Monte Rosa and Bernina.