EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 160, 5 February 1864, Page 1 (Supplement)

EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY.

EIFTY-THREE PERSONS KILLED. The Earthquake which visited England on the 6th October, has not been a singular event of the kind in Europe in the same month. On 11th October a similar shock was felt in France, Rouen having been the city that experienced it. But one much stronger than either costing many lives, visited Italy shortly after, as we learn from the following paragraph from the Home News : Some particulars of an earthquake felt at Lake Como on the 18th October are given in a private letter. The first symptoms were heavy rain and a storm, which seemed as though the clouds had burst. The waves of the lake beat upon the shore with a loud and hissing noise. At midnight the mountain at Molina toppled over, and the masses of stone qf which it was composed fell upon the houses built upon the slopes, four in number and crushed them to th 6 earth. Thus at one moment 55 people sleeping in the houses became engulfed in their ruins. Only one poor mother, with her infant at her breast was rescued alive, her husband and two sons having been killed in their sleep. A crowd of people hastened to the spot as soon as the disaster became known, and they succeeded in so far clearing away the ruins as to be able to extricate 10 of the corpses of the slain. The earthquake was feR at Lugam Lake on the same day. Carate Laxio, in Lombardy, also suffered from its effects, as the coffeehouse of the Villa Sanguilliani was covered with the waves of the lake, garden walls were thrown down, and all the houses on the lake's shore were- more or less injured.