Earthquake in Italy.
ANEDtiIWO TOtyrt d£SYT&OYED. THOUSANDS PERISH. Unitsd Pbesh AssbtJiAiibk.' N (Received 2.0 p.m.) London, January 13. An earthquake lasting twenty seconds occurred in Italy. It is reported that the town of Aneddano- was destroyed, and thousands perishd. Much damage was done elsewhere.
The southern portion of Italy has suffered greatly through earthquakes. Calabria has received s6nie terrible visitations, the most notable being those of 1783, in' which 60,000 lives were lost, in 1857 when 10,000 were killed, while the number killed in the Messina and • Calabria ' disaster of 1908 was 300,000. m
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1915, Page 6
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94Earthquake in Italy. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1915, Page 6
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