TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 June 1910, Page 3

TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE.

IX SOUTH EUROPE

TOWNS WH KCKED

WI niCHPH ICA1) DFSTR UCTION

KIXG AXD QFEEX LEAVE FOR

THE SCEXE

[iiy rcr.w.Tiiic Ti:i,KfiiiAi'H--coi'VitifJHT. ] [I'Klt I'll ESS ASSOCIATION.] (R eceiviMl This Day, !).o a.m.) ROME, Juno 7. The King and Queen of Italy have left Rome by special train,' to visit the see,lie of the earthquake. Seventeen towns and villages have been damaged. Falling houses caused the majority of casualties, the victims being .asleep at the time of the catastrophe. Tlio sho;-k was unduTatory. Parties from the carabiliters sanitary and engineer corps are aotiveIv engaged in recovering bodies from the ruins. Nearly all the streets in Avellino have been wrecked, and much damage has been done at Calitri and Vellata.

A strong shock was also felt at Montreux O'li lake Geneva, and the upper Rhone valley, causing avalanches to come down from the mountain knows as Pent-du-Midi.

["The rabies renorled 111 at in Svdnev (Inrinif tlii' prist few flnys the seismograph recorded sevcrnl important earthquake shocks. the Inst ocenrrins a week aero. Mr Geo. nogben inltimafos Mint on "Wednesday a s'toek was distinctly recorded in AVt?l 1 intrfon. The vibrations lasted for an hour and a half ."J