The Great Earthquake.
•„— ' - FRIGHTFCJL .lIEATfI:. LIST. FIVE THOUSAND kH,LEEL IMPOSSIBLE -TO INTER THE r BODIES: - PESTILENCE FEARED. " VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH*— GOPVBIGHT.) (RKUTER's TELEGRAMB.J ■■! - %PJUSB, July 31. $ Tbe latest accounts from • Isohia^re-'^ port that fully; SOtio parsons lost their A lives at Cassamiciola and; in the neigh- ■■., bourhood. ."". "'; ; ] Eff-ftsT have been made to extricate the bodies of ; those' who', perished from, . theruins and mfertlien^j&ut the air is now poisoned with .the pe&tijeutial feffliviaj,T andall that can how be done is to cover, the corpses "with "quicklime and allow them to; ren>ain., ,- r Zlv: . : . - r. ;„_ ,</-.-" ;,? Vesuvius, 1 which Has shewn signs of-' activity since thf, late . earthquake ac. > IschiaJ is how m erdption. '
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 202, 2 August 1883, Page 2
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114The Great Earthquake. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 202, 2 August 1883, Page 2
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