EARTHQUAKE ROMANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 50, 24 March 1909, Page 4

EARTHQUAKE ROMANCE.

A story related by survivors from Reggio show that even an earthquake can produce its romance. A young student for the priesthood, aged 22, having himself escaped, aec to work to liiul his sister, who was beneath the ruins of a younv ladies' college states the Central News). After three days, and quite by chance, he found her alive and well iu a cellar full of dead and living people. When they had embraced, the girl told her brother that somewhere among the wreckage of the college lay her great friend, who she believed was still alive, and they determined to try and save

In almost complete darkness, and in the momentary fear of being crushed, the two partially demolished a cruinlb* ling wall, and the girl cried " Maria. Maria !" To their great joy there came a voice which guided them to the fallen In am. Ueiicath it they found the girl. She was not badly hurt, and when the weight was lifted oil' her the three made their way together to a safer part of the town.

The young man, however, had fallen iu love with the rescued girl, who was strikingly beautiful.

At any rate, they shortly afterwards met a priest whom the sLudenl knew, and to whom he announced his renuucialion of his career as a seminarist in order that he might marry her. Then and there the priest gave them his blessing and united them.