THE ITALIAN EARTHQUAKE.
TERRIBLE DEATH ROLL. CARRARA QUARRIES CAVED IN WORKMEN BURIED ALIVE. Received 9.45 a.m. ROME Sept. 9. Three hundred dead have been recovered in the earthquake area, including fifty extricated from the ruins of Barga, where many are still buried. It is believed that, two hundred were buried at Fivizzano. - Many were buried alive at Carrara, owing to the quarries caving in, or were crushed to death by moving boulders. The dead in Carrara include one family consisting of the mother and seven children. Among the famous buildings destroyed is Vasari’s domed church of the Madonna dell Umilita at Pistoja.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3575, 10 September 1920, Page 5
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102THE ITALIAN EARTHQUAKE. Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3575, 10 September 1920, Page 5
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