TOWN ENGULFED BY MUD.
PALACES COUAPSE, THEIR OCCUPANTS BURIED. (Kec. September 24, 5.5 p.m.) Rome, September 23. The cloud-burst has done incalculable damage in the neighbourhood of Vesuvius. Resina has been engulfed, the mud reaching the first floors of the houses. An impetuous mountainside torrent, bearing hugo boulders, shattered the. houses. Women and children were transfixed by the appalling sight, and mado no effort to escape. Many bodies have been swept seaward, and twenty have been recovered. Several palaces belonging to the Neapolitan nobility at Torre del Greco collapsed, burying the occupants. [Torre del Greco is a town with over 35,000 inhabitants. It was destroyed by lava streams and earthquakes in 1031., 1737, 1791, and. 1861, but has always bec,jj rebuilt on the old site.]
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1241, 25 September 1911, Page 5
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125TOWN ENGULFED BY MUD. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1241, 25 September 1911, Page 5
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