A Picture of Desolation.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 98, 19 October 1894, Page 3

A Picture of Desolation.

The terrible earthquakes in Sicilly haye had distressing resullts. At Garbarci (writes a correspondent of the Daily News) we met women and children weeping desperately, and corpses were being carried out of the ruins. All at once we heard a horrible noise, the earth trembled, the walls fell, and a great cloud of dust enveloped us. Seeing a wall in front of me give way I fled hko mad while the shocks continued. We stumbled against one another in tho obscurity, and stones fell about us. Then all at onee — silence. Then cries of distress arose on all £ lies, and we rushed to help those who had fallen. Professor Romeo, correspondent of the Courier di Catania, had been struck down and wounded by a falling wall. We helped him up and put him in a safe place. Then we dragged a poor woman out of some ruins ; she had both legs broken. From another house we took a baby which had been saved by the protection afforded by a heap of canes standing near its cradle. We found a girl of twelve under the ruins unhurt ; bat she had lost her reason through terror. More and more wounded wero found ; bnt there were no medicines, no bandages, so surgical instruments, and no water, and the roads were impassable, so tnat the victims could not be transported to Aci Reale.