VIOLENT GALES
Coffins Washed from Graves ITALY AND FRANCE SWEPT (Eeceived 8, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 7. Telegraphic and telephonic communications with Eome and the rest of Europe have been out of action' all night due to violent gales and floods throughout Italy accompanied by landslides which broke the underground cables. , There were also widespread floods in France. Tn the cemetery at Salau the water swept over graves and washed out coffins, skeletons being carried for 15 miles. Twenty-three houses at Saint Girons were undermined by water and collapsed. Five members of an Italian family were killed in a landslide which crushed a f&rmh'ouse in the district of Pistoia. . The railway line from Eome to Milan has been destroyed between toia and Poretta.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 13, 8 October 1937, Page 5
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